Bangladesh is set to witness a historic moment tomorrow (Saturday) with the inauguration of Padma Bridge demonstrating to the world what this country can do on its own, proving the skeptics wrong amid the World Bank's scrapping of committed loans. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who took up the challenge to go
Author: AKM Moinuddin, UNB
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