The government of Bangladesh and the World Bank today signed a $300 million financing agreement to equip about 900,000 economically disengaged rural youths with skills and alternative education needed for employment and entrepreneurship.
Out of the total number, about 60 percent would be female.
In this regard, a loan agreement was signed today by Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Sharifa Khan and World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan Abdoulaye Seck on behalf of the government and the World Bank respectively.
The concessional credit is from the World Bank International Development Association (IDA) and has a 30-year term, including a five-year grace period.
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) today strongly condemned and protested the heinous attack on journalists in Barisal.
BFUJ president Omar Faruque and its secretary general Dip Azad, in a statement, said legal actions should be taken against the miscreants, who carried out the attack on journalists.
The leaders demanded arrest and punishment of the doctors for attacking journalists when they went to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital, Barisal to perform their professional duties on Saturday.
RANGPUR: The Teesta crossed its danger mark (DM) at
Kawnia and Dalia points in greater Rangpur district creating a temporary
flood satiation due to huge onrush of water from upstream during the last 24
hours ending at 9 am today.
Officials of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) said intensity of
monsoon rains lessened in the upstream northwestern Indian states from today
creating a possibility of no further deterioration of the situation during
the next 24 hours.
"The Teesta was flowing above its danger mark by 41 cm at Kawnia point in
Rangpur and 7cm at Dalia point in Nilphamari respectively at 9 am today,"
said Additional Chief Engineer for Rangpur Zone of BWDB Engineer Md Mahbubur
Rahman.
Currently, all 44 gates of the Teesta Barrage Project are remaining open to
control the huge water flow at Dalia point in Nilphamari where the river was
flowing below its danger mark by 27cm at 3pm today.
KUTUPALANG, Coxs Bazar: Hundreds of forcibly displaced Rohingyas today held rallies at different camps here marking the sixth anniversary of their huge exodus, demanding safe return to their homeland Myanmar.
"We do not want to stay in Bangladesh any long. Our only demand is to quick return to our homeland Myanmar," said Musa, a representative of Rohingyas at a camp.
Since August 25 in 2017, Bangladesh has been hosting over 1.1 million forcefully displaced Rohingyas in Coxs Bazar district and most of them arrived there after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and other rights groups dubbed it as "genocide".