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HIV education in Bangladesh pushes forward

A local non-government organisation in Bangladesh says its program to integrate HIV/AIDS education into school curriculum is making big strides. For more than 30 years, Bangladesh health education body PIACT has focused on issues relating to reproductive health, gender equality, poverty alleviation and indeed the prevention of HIV/AIDS. AIDS CongressSince 2007, the group has pushed to include HIV/AIDS education into the textbooks of secondary schools across Bangladesh. And while the program has faced opposition at all levels, P...

Tea prices up on demand for good leaf

Tea prices in Bangladesh gained at the weekly auction on Tuesday due to strong demand from local buyers for quality leaf ahead of the Eid holidays and tight supplies. Bangladeshi tea fetched an average of 192.13 taka ($2.50) per kg at the auction, against 190.35 taka at the previous sale, an official at National Brokers Ltd said. teaAround 1.67 million kg was offered at the auction centre in Chittagong, with 24 percent remaining unsold. At the previous auction, nearly 1.8 million kg was offered, of which 28 percent went unsold. “There was strong de...

GP’s revenue up 7.8pc

Bangladesh’s biggest mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) Tuesday reported a 7.8 percent increase in revenues for the first half of 2014 compared with that in the same period last year. The company, which is listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh, said that the revenue was 51.1 billion taka (1 U.S. dollar equals to 78 taka) for January-June period of 2014. gpService revenue grew by 7.5 percent year on year along with 14. 3 percent year on year growth in device and other revenues, said the company in a statement, Xinhua reports. It said the growth ...

edotco inks deal with InterCloud

Country’s first infrastructure service company, edotco Bangladesh, has signed a tripartite agreement with Robi and InterCloud a leading ISP at Robi Corporate office today (Wednesday, July 23). The agreement will help InterCloud to penetrate in the critical area smoothly and quickly and will eventually help to grow the data industry of the country. DSC_8163From Robi Axiata Ltd Mr. Supun Weerasinghe CEO & Managing Director, from edotco Bangladesh Mr. Yap Wai Yip, acting Chief Executive Officer, from InterCloud Mr. Syed Moinul Haq, Managing D...

IBFB team meets Housing Minister

A 12-member delegation headed by Mr. Hafizur Rahman Khan, President of IBFB called on Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, MP, Honorable Minister for Housing & Public Works on Wednesday 23 July 2014 and formally handed over the Keynote Paper on Well-planned Urbanization & Development: Involving Private Sector under Public Private Partnership (PPP). image002The paper was written by Mr. Suhel Ahmed Chowdhury, former Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Public Works, Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Commerce which was presented in different ...

Pubali Bank organizes workshop on Green Banking

A workshop on “SME, Ethical Banking, ERM & Green Bnking” organized by Pubali Bank Dhaka Central Region was held recently. Managing Director and CEO of Pubali Bank Ltd. Helal Ahmed Chowdhury was present as Chief Guest. Additional Managing Director of Pubali Bank M. A. Halim Chowdhury and Deputy Managing Director Safiul Alam Khan Chowdhury were present as Special Guests. Mamun Bakht, Deputy General Manager and Regional Head of Dhaka Central Region presided over the workshop. Central SME Ethical Banking
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