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High green chilli prices in Bangladesh: Last year, chilli growers in Bogura and Gaibandha districts got 50 to 80 maunds of green chilli from one bigha (33 decimals) of land during the Kharif-1 crop season. But this year, farmers have not only been getting seven to eight maunds per bigha. Hence, though the price of green chilies is skyrocketing, farmers are not receiving much
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam today asked the Director-General of Bangladesh Railways how they allotted a waterbody to build a five-star hotel and a shopping complex, violating the prime minister’s directives.
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Two Chinese companies have expressed interest in forming a joint venture to construct, operate and manage funds for a proposed high-speed railway on the Dhaka-Chattogram route.
They proposed to be engaged in the multi-billion-dollar project on the basis of a public private partnership (PPP) under a government-to-government initiative
The companies China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) sent the proposal to the railways ministry through the Chinese embassy in Dhaka and the PPP Authority, railways sources said.
Bangladesh Railway yesterday held a meeting over the proposal with its Director General Dhirendra Nath Mazumder in the chair. It was decided in the meeting to seek the Economic Relations Division s (ERD s) opinion about the proposal, meeting sources said.