Dhaka, Apr. 2 : The Government of Bangladesh has taken its first step towards tackling the menace of corporate corruption, which exists on a large scale in the country.
Corporate corruption is a force that is as destructive as the cyclones that have ravaged the country's coastline in the past.
Last week, Bangladesh''s newly elected government took its first high-profile swipe at the problem.
Dhaka - Bangladesh's economy is expected to grow at its lowest rate in five years during the current fiscal year, mainly due to the impact of global recession, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) projected Tuesday.
The ADB Outlook 2009, the annual publication of the lending agency, said that the country's GDP growth would fall to 5.6 percent from 6.2 percent in the 2008-09 fiscal year.
It also projects a further decline in growth to 5.2 percent in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
Dhaka - Myanmar said Tuesday that its planned fencing on its border with Bangladesh was not a "defence structure" and would be placed away from the border.
"It's not a defence structure," Myanmar Ambassador Phae Thann Oo told reporters in Dhaka after a meeting with Bangladesh's junior minister for foreign affairs, Hasan Mahmud. "It is for the prevention of smuggling of narcotics and trafficking in persons."
Dhaka - Investigators on Monday interrogated a top leader of Bangladesh's Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami over last month's troop mutiny at the headquarters of the county's border force, which killed 75 people, officials said.
Coming out of the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department after interrogation, Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Abdur Razzak said the department summoned him to taint his political image.
Dhaka- Forty-five women were sworn in as lawmakers in Bangladesh's Jatiya Sangsad or parliament on Sunday, officials said.
The women wear earlier this month elected unopposed to seats reserved for women. They were expected to join Sunday's session, which follows after a nine-day recess.
Thirty-six of the new lawmakers belong to ruling Awami League (AL), four to Jatiya Party, a coalition partner of the AL, and the rest belong to the mainstream opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Dhaka
Dhaka, Apr. 2 : The Government of Bangladesh has taken its first step towards tackling the menace of corporate corruption, which exists on a large scale in the country.
Dhaka - Bangladesh's economy is expected to grow at its lowest rate in five years during the current fiscal year, mainly due to the impact of global recession, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) projected Tuesday.
Dhaka - Myanmar said Tuesday that its planned fencing on its border with Bangladesh was not a "defence structure" and would be placed away from the border.
Dhaka - Investigators on Monday interrogated a top leader of Bangladesh's Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami over last month's troop mutiny at the headquarters of the county's border force, which killed 75 people, officials said.
Dhaka- Forty-five women were sworn in as lawmakers in Bangladesh's Jatiya Sangsad or parliament on Sunday, officials said.
