Robi is going to provide Wi-Fi connectivity in Dhaka University (DU). A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in this regard between Robi and DU on July 11 2015, Saturday.
Robi’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Mahtab Uddin Ahmed and DU’s Treasurer Professor Dr. Kamal Uddin signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organization. The signing took place
at DU’s Faculty of Business Studies. DU’s Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. A A M S Arefin Siddique was also present at the signing ceremony.
Robi will provide free data facilities at the ...
Eid ul Fitr is one of the main festivals for Bangladeshis. Though this is a Muslim festival in Bangladesh it has become everyone’s celebration. Every festival brings some new color, a ray of new hope and enjoyment to everyone’s life. Eid ul Fitr is no different. After month of fasting, patience and sacrifice, Eid al-Fitr is one that everyone will be celebrating, but how do you decorate your house for this occasion?
Eid ul Fitr is celebrated mainly at home. People visit each other’s home, meet ...
Iris Corporation Bhd, which had been recently contracted to issue machine readable passports (MRP) in Bangladesh, has posted a pretax loss of RM17.04 million for the year ended March 31, 2015 – down from a pretax profit of RM35.09 million last year.
Alongside the heavy decline in profit, its revenue fell to RM564.49 million from RM573.24 million previously.
According to its Bursa filings, the weak performance was due to the pre-operating costs in relation to its Bangladesh MRP outsourcing project – which faced challenges earlier thi...
A Sydney boy being deported because he has autism will have a seriously diminished quality of life in Bangladesh where his family will face discrimination, his father says.
The immigration department has ordered four-year-old Australian-born Fayyed Hoque and his family to leave the country because his autism has been deemed too burdensome for taxpayers.
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Fayyad with his father Mohammad and mother Tonima. (Facebook)[/caption]
Fayyad, along with his father Mohammad Hoque and...
At least 25 people have been killed in a stampede during a handout of free clothes in the northern Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh, police said.
The stampede erupted on Friday when hundreds of people tried to force their way into a factory compound through a small gate after massing outside the building before dawn, local police chiefs told the AFP news agency.
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“We have so far recovered 23 bodies. Most of the dead are p...
Historically, the path to wealth for nations has run through manufacturing. Manufacturing gives you a way to quickly move a lot of people from low-productivity farming to higher-productivity jobs without requiring that they pick up lots of new skills first. And the garment industry fits the bill admirably; it does not not require lots of expensive infrastructure or a skilled population that can supply and maintain fancy machines, and it does use lots of low-skilled labor. Once you get people through the factory gates, their higher productivity and earnings will support improvements in infrastructure, education and services, that can fuel further growth. Eventually, one hopes that your country will get too rich to support much garment manufacturing, because workers will be able to comman...
