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Shop owners and sellers from now on will use jute sacks instead of polythene bag, State Minister for Jute Mirza Azam visited the Kawran Bazar on Monday and issued the directives.

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‘Water lifting from common rivers costs Tk 5000cr a yr’

UNB, Dhaka :Withdrawal of water from common rivers by setting up dams in the upstream areas causes a loss of about Tk 5,000 crore to Bangladesh each year, according to water experts.“Bangladesh suffers a loss of about Tk 5,000 crore each year due to the withdrawal of water from common rivers by constructing Farakka Barrage, Teesta Barrage and other dams at the upstream of the rivers,” Prof Jasim Uddin Ahmad, former vice chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, told a seminar on...

6 May 2014, 12:00 am