Tk 7,300cr likely to get slashed from two railway projects
Two railway projects are likely to see budget cuts of around Tk 7,300 crore in a slimming-down attempt as officials view that earlier these projects were not 鈥榚xamined properly鈥�...
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Russia assures of Rooppur plant completion
Foreign secretary Ambassador Md Jashim Uddin on Wednesday thanked Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Vikentyevich Mantytskiy for Russian Federation鈥檚 ongoing support, particularly in the implementation of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project...
Time, cost overruns in projects must first be investigated
BUS Rapid Transit Line 3 Project, taken up about 12 years ago to connect Gazipur to the Dhaka airport with a dedicated bus service on a 20.5-kilometre corridor, has become an example of irregularities and mismanagement of development projects. The project, once completed, is meant to carry close to half a million people every day. The estimated travel...
Bus rapid transit project to get 6th extension, cost to rise for 3rd time聽聽聽
The deadline of the country鈥檚 first-ever bus rapid transit line project, undertaken nearly 12 years ago to connect Gazipur and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport through a dedicated bus service over...
Ousted regime remained busy with monument projects
Finance, commerce and science and technology adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday criticised the recently ousted Awami League regime for following the 鈥業ndian syndrome of monument projects鈥�...
ACC probe sought into allegations against Hasina, family
A writ petition was filed on Tuesday with the High Court, seeking a directive for the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate allegations against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her family members, and her former defence and security adviser, Tarique Ahmed Siddique, over the alleged embezzlement of $5 billion from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project...
African leaders in Beijing eyeing big loans, investment
African leaders descend on China鈥檚 capital this week, seeking funds for big-ticket infrastructure projects as they eye mounting great power competition over resources and influence on the continent...
Chinese-funded projects will continue, envoy says
The Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, Yao Wen, on Tuesday assured that the projects funded by China in Bangladesh will continue as planned.
375 projects in pipeline for revision in FY25
Ministries and divisions have submitted proposals for revision of 375 projects in the concluding FY24 despite repeated calls for timely implementation of projects to prevent time...
Bangladesh PM prefers India to implement Teesta project
Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said she would like India to implement the Teesta project as it is related to the neighbouring country....
Illegal structures near RNPP evicted
The Ishwardi upazila administration evicted several hundred illegal structures from the Ishwardi-Kushtia highway near the Rooppur Nuclear Power Project on Saturday...
DU鈥檚 IML inaugurates Japanese language classroom
A newly-built classroom under the 鈥楯apanese Language Classroom Improvement Project鈥� of the Institute of Modern Languages of University of Dhaka was inaugurated at the institute on Tuesday...
Dhaka prefers India over China
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud said on Sunday that Bangladesh would have to consider India鈥檚 proposal to implement the Teesta development project first since it was a...
Shell sees heavy writedowns in Q2
British oil giant Shell said Friday that it plans writedowns of up to $2 billion for its second quarter due to a shelved biofuels project in the Netherlands...
Politicians for keeping space for dialogue in politics
Grassroots politicians at a convention on Saturday called for keeping space for dialogue in politics to avoid conflict for unity and solidarity among all political parties...
Belarusian gets life term jail for killing Kazakh
Pabna Senior District and Sessions Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced a Belarusian citizen to life term imprisonment on charge of killing Kazakh national Svets Vladimir who worked at Rooppur nuclear power plant project at Ishwardi upazila of Pabna...
PM welcomes India鈥檚 interest
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that it would be easy for Bangladesh if the Teesta restoration project received support from India, while China made a proposal on it after conducting a feasibility study...
BADC holds workshop on spice project
A workshop on current situation, achievements and prospects of the project titled 鈥楶roduction, processing and distribution of quality spice seeds鈥� held at the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation in Dhaka鈥檚 Sher-E-Bangla Nagar area on Friday...
Maintain status quo over share transfer: SC
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the foreign companies, implementing the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project, to maintain the status quo over transferring the major shareholder鈥檚 shares to its co-contractor firms until arbitration in Singapore resolved the share transfer dispute...
Evict billboards of illegal housing projects near Purbachal: HC
The High Court on Sunday directed the deputy commissioners of Narayanganj and Gazipur, and the superintendents of police of the two districts to demolish in two months billboards of illegal housing projects near Rajuk-run Purbachal City at Rupganj, on the outskirts of the capital...
HC bans Silicon City鈥檚 activities in Savar
The High Court, on Sunday, directed Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, the department of environment and deputy commissioner of Dhaka to stop all activities of Silicon City, an unauthorised private housing project at Savar, on the outskirt of Dhaka...
Delayed implementation of projects a manifold burden
THE Bangladesh Railway鈥檚 failure to complete the Khulna-Mongla railway project and start train services 14 years after the project was taken and seven months after it was inaugurated shows once again the sorry state of project implementation...
Govt, ACC must investigate people Dubai Unlocked speaks of
THE findings of an investigation of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Norwegian news site E24 that 532 Bangladeshis own real estate in Dubai could be a ground for Bangladesh authorities to carry forward the investigation and act accordingly...
Connection between 2 expressways in limbo
The lack of coordination among the authorities in implementing development projects becomes evident once again in a latest instance in which the building works to connect the two under-construction expressways, to be done in the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in the capital, remains in limbo...
FDIPP allocates Tk聽364cr in loans to 19 borrowers
The Foreign Direct Investment Promotion Project has disbursed Tk聽364.90 crore in the form of 35 loans to 19 borrowers...
Dhaka shouldn鈥檛 entertain Delhi鈥檚 Teesta project finance proposal
INDIA which has since 2010 put on hold the signing of an agreement on the sharing of the water of the River Teesta has now offered to finance a large-scale project of Bangladesh for the comprehensive management and the restoration of the river in which China has already...
India wants to fund Teesta project amid Bangladesh's worries over water flow, treaty
India on Thursday expressed its willingness to support a mega development project on the transboundary River Teesta inside Bangladesh, where China had already shown its interest and completed a survey...
JS body expresses anger over delay in projects
The Jatiya Sangsad standing committee on estimates on Sunday expressed anger over Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha鈥檚 delay in completing works of Purbachal New Town and Jhilmil residential projects...
Road safety project limps while it needs to run
THE biggest road safety project that the government has planned to prevent death and injury by road accidents that weigh heavily on public health has made almost no...
Road safety project sees hardly any progress in a year
Almost no progress has been made in a year since the biggest road safety project in Bangladesh was initiated by the government amid...