The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is interested in financing the construction of the chord line of railway from Dhaka to Cumilla via Narayanganj through which it will take only two hours to go to Chottagram from the capital.
Climate change can reduce overall rice production by an average of 7.4 percent annually, while the country faces a loss of around 1.5 percent of GDP due to natural disasters and climate-related hazards, said speakers in a discussion yesterday.