Freelancers to get fast money from abroad as Bank Asia teams up with AlertPay on e-payment.
Freelancers and IT exporters will now receive their payments from foreign buyers without any hassle, as AlertPay yesterday made foray into Bangladesh by launching online payment service in partnership with Bank Asia Ltd.
January 28th 2005 – A developer in Dhaka may claim that his building can withstand a Magnitude 8 (Richter scale) earthquake. This statement can be misleading, because in Dhaka we do not have to design our buildings for such large earthquake. The known earthquake sources that can produce large earthquakes are far away from Dhaka. In fact, earthquake resistant building design at a particular place is based on specified ground shaking (known as intensity) for that location and not on earthquake magnitude. It is important to understand the difference between these basic terms used for describing the strength and effect of earthquakes.
Department of Land Record and Survey’s
Terratech Limited – bringing 10 of the top Software and ITES together under a single company to work towards a single goal of Automating the Land Record Management system in Bangladesh.
Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) – Rights based independent National Policy Advocacy and Networking Organisation committed to the promotion and strengthening of land rights and agrarian reform.
The country’s archaic postal department is redefining itself by introducing the ‘mobile wallet’, a banking service that would enable people to transact money or buy anything across Bangladesh with a cell phone.
The Directorate of Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) will introduce the service — post e-pay — in September, said M Mobasherur Rahman, director general of the directorate.
In any directions you want to travel from the capital, you will find the highways riddled with mortal danger.
DHAKA-CHITTAGONG
With over 50,000 vehicles plying one way every day, the Dhaka-Chittagong road is full of potholes, and chaotic and unfit to accommodate such a volume of traffic.
DHAKA-MYMENSINGH
Dhaka-Mymensingh highway has become unusable due to large ditches and potholes all the way. Bus operators have suspended their services to 28 destinations in Mymensingh region.
DHAKA-SYLHET
There are two ways to go to Sylhet — one is via Tongi through the Kaliganj-Ghorashal road and the other through Jatrabari. The road through Kaliganj is so narrow that once a vehicle breaks down there, miles of tailbacks occur instantly. The road through Jatrabari remains jam-packed with vehicles most of the time. The main highway to Sylhet still remains good but potholes have started to appear at many points. Maintenance is urgent here before it gets worse.
Bangladesh Railway yesterday signed a deal with a Chinese firm on upgrading the Tongi-Bhairab Bazar single-line track to double lines, almost five years after a project was initiated in this regard.
The Tk 1,405 crore project also includes improving the signalling system on Dhaka-Chittagong main line, which is expected to be completed by 2014.
Abu Taher, director general of Bangladesh Railway, and Wendong, deputy general manager of the contractor firm China Railway Group, signed the deal at the Railway Bhaban in the capital.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) is financing Tk 1,330 crore, equivalent to 94.70 percent of the project cost, while the rest will be borne by the government.
Bangladesh is now more crowded than ever before as the preliminary results of the 5th Population and Housing Census 2011 showed 17.964 million people adding in the last decade in the densely-populated country.
With 14.4 percent increase in the size of population, 964 people live in every square kilometer.
The results on Saturday showed the country’s total population at 142.319 million on March 15, comprising an almost equal number of males and females – 71.255million and 71.064 million.
The process to establish the Sylhet Development Authority has so far achieved a little progress after the cabinet reached the decision to form it in 2006.
The delay has disrupted the overall development of the city, observed many of its dwellers.
The absence of SDA delayed the finalisation of the master plan, said the Sylhet City Corporation officials.
The government for the first time will build an aircraft refuelling facility at Sylhet Osmani airport to attract foreign airlines at the newly set up international landing field in north-eastern Bangladesh, officials said Monday.
Civil aviation and tourism ministry official said they would invest Tk416.4 million to construct a 300-tonne capacity jet fuel refilling station at the airport to create facilities for domestic and international airlines.
Indian corporate houses have shown interest in investing in the automobile sector in Bangladesh.
They have recommended creating a special economic zone (SEZ) in Chhatak, Sylhet for the purpose.
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