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5th Social Business Day today

The Social Business Day will be organised in Dhaka today with the aim of discussing ways to turn people into entrepreneurs for creating jobs as fighting unemployment has become a daunting task for countries around the world. The 5th annual event, organised by Yunus Centre, will take place at Radisson Hotel on the theme of “We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers -- Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship”. dr. YunusNobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus will host the event and Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and...

Sea walls may make floods worse

Bangladesh is one of the countries at most risk from climate change, as it is low-lying and could be swamped by rising seas – particularly if they rise by several metres (see “Ice sheets on course for collapse”). Now it seems the very embankments built to protect its people could be making them more vulnerable to floods. bangladesh climateBangladesh is about to upgrade 600 kilometres of coastal embankments in the Sundarbans delta region in its south-west. It is using $400 million from the World Bank. The bank says the upgra...

May ends with 38.93m internet subscribers

Bangladesh ended May with 38.93 million internet subscribers, compared with 37.17 million at the end of the previous month. The mobile internet base reached 37.41 million, up from 35.64 million in April, according to figures from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). molbile internetThe number of fixed-line internet users totaled 1.23 million, almost flat compared with the previous month, while the number of Wimax subscribers amounted to 291,385 by end-May, compared with 296,204 at end-April.

Porcelanosa now in Bangladesh

The world’s leading tiles company Porcelanosa started their journey in Bangladesh with association of Nupami BD Ltd on June 24 by launching their showroom in the capital’s Gulshan area, Dhaka. The showroom was inaugurated by His Excellency, Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh, D. Luis Tejada Chacon, Chairperson of Nupami Foundation Ms. Nuria Lopez, Director of PORCELANOSA Grupo, Silvestre Segarra, and CEO of Nupami BD Ltd Aritz Izura were also present in the inauguration ceremony. IMG_2472Later a Gala event was held in the evening at Radisson ...

Modi writes to Sheikh Hasina; pledges to strengthen ties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, pledging to further strengthen the framework of ties even as he hoped that a "new era" of cooperation would be fostered across South Asia to ignite the collective surge for prosperity. Modi, while thanking Hasina for her letter of felicitation on his assumption of office, has accepted her invitation to visit Bangladesh. He also extended an invitation to her to visit India at her earliest convenience. bd-indiaHe has emphasised that for India, Bangladesh is "not merel...

Smart passports for Bangladesh expats in UAE

More than one million Bangladesh expatriates in the UAE will have smart Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) by November 2015. The project was launched in Dubai by the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the UAE Mohammad Imran. [caption id="attachment_7506" align="alignleft" width="300"]passport (Right) Masudur Rahman, Consul General of Bangladesh and LIm Ping Ping, Manager Business Development and Marketing of IRIS during the launch of Machine Readable passports for Bangladeshi Nationals, organized by the Consulate of Bangladesh.[/caption] The project was granted to a consortium of companies - Grand Technology Resource (GTR), IRIS and C...
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