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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Pakistan Wednesday signed a $430 million agreement to strengthen Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).

SYDNEY: The Pacific region faces serious economic losses due to climate change and it is critical that nations causing the problem step in to help, the Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday.

A Service Agreement for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India(TAPI) pipeline was signed in Ashgabat , Turkmenistan ‘s TV Channel reported on Wednesday.

The Asian Development Bank and the Government of Bangladesh on November 14 signed a technical assistance grant agreement of US$1.5 million for strengthening the Roads and Highways Department to sup

The government has released Rs 21 billion for the construction of Diamer-Bhasha Dam in the last four years (2009-10 to 2012-13), says a document of the Ministry of Water and Power.

Concrete houses for fishermen, cyclone shelters and underground cabling for power supply are among the host of projects the state government on Wednesday placed before a central team on external as

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved US$ 250 million assistance to a project of Dhaka WASA to bring 50 crore litres of water per day from Meghna River to reduce its dependency on groundwat

Rain and flash floods have pushed back development works in Uttarakhand by decades and the challenge at the moment is to build smarter projects without impacting the fragile environment of the hilly region, said World Bank's country director Onno Ruhl.

"In Uttarakhand, the challenge is to build smarter, so that they do not undermine the fragility of the environment," he told PTI after the approval of a $250 million credit for the rehabilitation work in the state by the World Bank's board in Washington on Friday.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government signed Wednesday a loan agreement for $12 million in additional financing for the cross-border electricity interconnection between Bangladesh and

Almost 11 million people in Bangladesh will benefit from a project loan to improve the water quality and bring new supplies to the capital city of Dhaka, the Asian Development Bank said.

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