The Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) has extended $20 million long-term loan to Dhaka RAD Elevated Expressway Company Limited (DREECL), an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) formed to implement a PPP project, says a press release. The project is designed to improve Hatirjheel (Rampura Bridge)-Shekherjaiga-Amulia-Demra Road (with link to Tarabo and Chittagong Road). A loan agreement…
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Non-basmati white rice, which India has banned for export, is mainly purchased by Senegal, Benin, Togo, Bangladesh, and Cote d’Ivoire. Labourers unload rice bags from a supply truck at India’s main rice port at Kakinada Anchorage in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, on 2 September 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS Indian rice exporters have been…
Chinese Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Deng Xijun held two separate meetings in Dhaka and discussed issues of mutual interest, including the thorny issue of Rohingya repatriation. This is his second visit within less then four months and he had meetings with Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen separately…
An overpass can be built at the intersection of Botir Zakirov and Navoi streets. Urban planners pointed out that such a decision would be a wrong decision according to modern urban planning, economic and ecological aspects. Public activists are calling for the bridge project to be canceled. Navoi avenue, intersection of Abay and Botir Zakirov…