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		<title>Khaleda seeks increased IDB support in energy, power</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/09/khaleda-seeks-increased-idb-support-in-energy-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia discussed various development projects and investments in Bangladesh with Islamic Development Bank (IDB) President Ahmed Mohamed Ali here yesterday.
Khaleda also met with Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah on September 1.

During her visit to the IDB headquarters, IDB&#8217;s senior management gave an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use of pesticides raises health risks: Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An overwhelming 86.7 percent of the farmers use medium to high chemical fertilisers like urea, triple super phosphate (TSP), Muriate of Potash (MP), Zinc and Sulpur for cultivation of vegetables, according to a recent study.

The study revealed that farmers in the study areas mainly used urea, TSP, MP, Zinc and Sulphur for vegetable cultivation. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People yet to get economic emancipation: Hasina</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/people-yet-to-get-economic-emancipation-hasina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each of the 12 families of Ansar members who had given guard of honour to the acting president of the government in exile on April 17 in 1971 received Tk 2 lakh as donation from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.

The prime minister handed over the cheques to the Ansar members and their family members at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road, rail link, trade to dominate talks</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/road-rail-link-trade-to-dominate-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regional connectivity, particularly setting up of Chittagong-Kunming road and rail-link, expansion of trade and commerce and joint efforts to curb poverty will dominate talks during a three-day visit of Chinese Yunnan Governor Qin Guangrong to Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina invited Governor Qin during her visit to Kunming in March this year.
Five agreements in the fields [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Severe water crisis within next two decades, say experts</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/severe-water-crisis-within-next-two-decades-say-experts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangladesh will face severe water crisis within next couple of decades due to random contamination of surface and ground water, absence of comprehensive water sharing with neighbouring countries and mismanagement in preserving rain water.

According to water experts, although the whole world is seriously thinking of conserving their water resources for ensuring water security, Bangladesh is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Production target set at 14 million tonnes</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/production-target-set-at-14-million-tonnes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite having insufficient rain, the department of agriculture extension (DAE) eye an increased production of aman paddy in the current season with the target set at 14 million tonnes &#8211; an increase of over one million tonnes from the previous season.
According to DAE sources, some 5.45 million hectares of land would be brought under transplanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-governance to strengthen development process</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/e-governance-to-strengthen-development-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (Retd) AK Khandaker yesterday underscored the need for implementing e-governance in strengthening planning, monitoring and evaluation of government&#8217;s development activities by empowering field level administration in policy decisions.

“e-governance would not only set up a bridge between different ministries by sharing information and data among themselves but also ensure transparency in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universities to be set up in major dists</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/universities-to-be-set-up-in-major-dists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/universities-to-be-set-up-in-major-dists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to ensure cent percent admission facilities for every SSC and HSC passed students into colleges and universities.
She gave the directives at an inaugural function of the 1st senior staff course and unveiling plaque of administrative building of National Academy for Educational Management (Naem) at its auditorium.

“Every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build poverty-free Bangladesh: PM</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/build-poverty-free-bangladesh-pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is moving ahead with two major tasks &#8212; implementation of the Supreme Court verdict on the fifth amendment of the Constitution and build a country free from hunger and poverty.
She said the defeated and anti-liberation forces had distorted the Constitution after the assassination of the Father of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden rice by 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.com.bd/2010/08/golden-rice-by-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country is likely to complete all necessary experiments on golden rice, a genetically modified crop variety, tentatively by 2012, said Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) sources.
They said as the government is yet to approve the field level experiment of the variety, the institute is conducting test in multiplying the seed of the new rice [...]]]></description>
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