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Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
According to the UNB report, the bodies of two people who went missing after two speedboats collided in the Padma river on February 5 were recovered from the river about 55 hours after the incident. With the bodies, the death toll in the collision has risen to three while 3 others are still missing. The […]
Dense fog left two boats carrying passengers stranded in the middle of the Padma river, forcing the authorities to suspend services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route. Mohammad Khalid Nawaz, a deputy general manager of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, said they suspended the services at around 9.30 pm on Saturday due to zero visibility.
The movement of all types of engine driven boats and launches was also suspended during this period. At around 11.30 in the morning, when the fog started dissipating, the movement of the ferry started. Nawaz said around 70 vehicles, including passenger buses, trucks, pick-ups and private cars, are waiting to cross the river on both […]
National Proposal to create Padma, Meghna division in cold storage The government on Sunday put on hold the proposal to create two new divisions named after two major rivers of the country, Padma and Meghna. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Administrative Reforms Implementation Committee (NICAR) in the PMO chaired by […]
Bangladesh was called land of rivers. Bangladesh and India shares fifty four rivers. Since the independence in 1971 India has built many dams on the upstream ignoring international laws. Farakka is one of them. It is situated about ten kilometers away from Bangladesh border. This barrage was built to withdraw water from Padma and to […]
The supervision will go for a second overpass over a Padma if a World Bank does not repel a cessation upon appropriation a Padma Multipurpose Bridge projects, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader pronounced yesterday. The newly allocated minister, however, hoped which a cessation would go soon. He was lecture reporters during Daudkandi in Comilla after upon […]
Water sharing of International Rivers has been a sensitive issue between Bangladesh and India relationship. India has been advocating for international law in negotiation with upstream nations like China. But never agreed to follow international law for water sharing with downstream nation Bangladesh. As if there is no international law for water sharing. In the […]
Implementation of the Padma multipurpose bridge-project as the consortium of the four lending agencies led by the World Bank become uncertain $2 billion has interrupted a Fund of $1.345 (b) for the project, to an allegation of corruption the bidding process for the appointment of construction monitoring consultant settled is. Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Secretary […]
Yesterday the leaders of the International Farakka Committee declared names of 24 members’ people’s commission for Himalayan rivers and its 14 member’s steering committee at the national press club which comprises citizens of Bangladesh, India, China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan. The International Farakka Committee is expecting that the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan […]
The supervision is starting to ink a $ 140 million loan bargain with a Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Tuesday for financing a building a total of a much-awaited Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB), meant for joining country’s southwestern partial with a capital. Apart from a PMB, a supervision will additionally pointer an a single more $ […]
Still recuperating from a harmful trembler as good as tsunami, Japan is giving Bangladesh $670 million, a top monetary good in a final 40 years, for 3 projects together with a Padma Bridge. Of a assistance, 87 percent is accede to as good as a rest of a volume carries a lowest seductiveness rate in […]
The work on Padma Bridge is scheduled to start in March next year and all contracts for the $2.9 billion project will be signed before that, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday. In an earlier assessment by JAIKA on July in the year 2004 the development cost of this Bridge was estimated as Tk.8, 588 […]
