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Dhaka, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The country’s leading digital services provider Robi Axiata Limited and Sharif Pharmaceuticals, a sister concern of Sharif Group, have recently signed a corporate agreement. Under this agreement, Sharif Pharmaceuticals will be able to enjoy corporate connections from the Robi Axiata Ltd. Robi will also support Sharif Pharmaceuticals to automate their […]
Read MoreA 48 hours long Hackathon titled “CTO Forum Innovation Hackathon-2020”kicked off today with an opening ceremony which took place online due to thecurrent pandemic situation. The Hackathon will run till 7:00 pm of 26 December,2020.Mr. Shyam Sunder Sikder, Chairman of Bangladesh TelecommunicationRegulatory Commission joined as chief guest and Mr. Md. Nazrul Islam Khan,Curator at Bangabandhu […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) –Nagad, the flagship payments platform of the Bangladeshi government, has recorded over two billion taka daily transactions, a milestone that highlights the faster adoption of the digital financial service in the country. Tanvir A Mishuk, managing director of Nagad, made the announcement at a ceremony in capital Dhaka on Thursday. According […]
Read MoreBangladesh needs to quickly design and roll out policy actions and reforms on long-standing issues holding back private investment in order to effectively address the unfolding impact of COVID-led economic shocks. Identification of new opportunities that COVID presents, aligning critical reforms with country’s formal development strategies, actively exploring new investment sources such as from those […]
Read MoreMassachusetts, USA—A resilience scorecard developed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and Concern Worldwide in 2019 found that most households in Sharonkhola and Mongla upazilas in Bagerhat District, Bangladesh were inadequately prepared for and would have difficulty recovering from the impacts of disasters. Among the 462 heads of households who were surveyed in the two disaster prone upazilas or sub-districts, most […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 9 (Xinhua) — Mobile phone subscribers in Bangladesh declined to nearly 161.506 million at the end of May, down over 4.5 million from February, a report said on Thursday. Statistics of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) showed that the number of subscribers of the mobile operators — Grameenphone, Robi Axiata, Banglalink and […]
Read MoreThe following is the full and unedited text of a statement received here Sunday from Pakistan High Commission : “In a major development, the U.S. and Taliban signed Peace Agreement in Doha today.Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was present at this occasion, on the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar. In […]
Read MoreBangladesh needs to invest an estimated extra $7.8 billion over the next decade to halve its road crash fatalities, says a new World Bank report. The report, Delivering Road Safety in Bangladesh, released yesterday in conjunction with the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm, points to thehigh death rate on Bangladesh’s roads caused by chronic lack of investment in systemic, targeted, and sustained road safety programs and identifies relevant investment […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 22 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement received here Saturday from Grameenphone on the apex court verdict directing the cell phone operator to deposit 10 billion taka to the country’s telecom regulator within Monday: “Grameenphone has decided to deposit BDT 1000 crore on 23 February to […]
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