Bangabandhu Tunnel’s 98pc construction work finished. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram is getting ready for opening to traffic as its 98 percent construction works have been so far completed. “Now the workers are bustling to give  final touch   as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to the tunnel in […]

Blaze extinguished on ship off Dutch coast, to be towed to port. A cargo ship that caught fire off the Dutch coast with hundreds of electric cars on board is being towed to port Thursday as the flames appear to have been extinguished, officials said. The government decided that the Fremantle Highway, on which a […]

ADB mobilizes $261m for Rampura-Amulia-Demra Expressway. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has mobilized $261 million of private sector capital for the four-lane 13.5 kilometer Rampura-Amulia-Demra Expressway in the country.ADB mobilized the amount as a transaction advisor for the Government of Bangladesh’s Rampura Amulia Demra Expressway public-private partnership (PPP) project, a press release said. The expressway […]

Ivory Coast’s former president Henri Konan Bedie has died aged 89 in hospital in Abidjan, a member of his party’s communications team told AFP late on Tuesday. Bedie succeeded Ivory Coast’s post-colonial founding father, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, serving as president from 1993 to 1999 — when he was overthrown by the military in the country’s first-ever […]