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Oracle extends cloud offerings

Oracle Corp founder and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison said his database company is expanding its cloud-computing offerings, bringing Oracle into more direct competition with Amazon.com Inc. "We're prepared to compete with Amazon.com on price," said Ellison in a webcast presentation recently, after announcing that Oracle would offer online storage and oracle_summit_09252013_620_412_100capability for customers to run their applications entirely in Oracle's cloud. Oracle Cloud Platform is ex...

Robi announces Shera Call Rate

Robi has recently launched a thrilling new campaign called “Shera Call Rate on Tk. 39/79 Recharge”. The campaign promises to provide the esteemed subscribers of Robi with the best possible call rate of the country. On just Tk. 39 or Tk. 79 recharge, subscribers can enjoy a very distinctive Robi-Robi call-rate of as low as just half paisa-per-second from 12 am to 5 pm and 1 paisa-per-second from 5 pm to 12 am. Subscribers can also enjoy a flat rate of 1 paisa-per-second for 24 hours for Robi to robi-1-300x215other operators’ number...

UN creates Int’l Day against Sexual Violence in Conflict

In an effort to boost the global fight against the horrors faced by women and girls in zones of conflict worldwide, the United Nations General Assembly on June 19 approved by consensus a new resolution to commemorate 19 June as the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. “Rape and other forms of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict constitute grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law,” President of the 193-member Assembly, Sam Kutesa, declared as he greeted the resolution’s adoption. “Yet these depraved acts still occur and are used to terrorise and control civilian populations in conflict zones.”

Only 43pc ADP implemented in 9 months

Planning minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday 43 per cent of the Annual Development Programmes was implemented in the first nine months of the outgoing fiscal year of 2014-15. Govt-logo-bangladeshA total of Tk 778.42 billion was allocated against 453 development projects in ADP. The planning minister disclosed the piece of information in parliament in response to a question from an independent lawmaker, Tahzib Alam Siddiqui. Earlier, the day’s sitting began at 10:30 am with speaker Shirin Sharmin Choudhury ...

Uncertainty over KEPZ will give out the wrong message

With the handover of land not being resolved as yet, fears have cropped up over the future of Yongone Group’s KEPZ in Anwara, Chittagong. Uncertainty over KEPZ will give out the wrong message to investors. South Korean ambassador to Bangladesh Lee Yun Young thinks that the answer to the problem lies in the agreement signed by the two countries for the expansion and maintenance of bilateral investment. Speaking to Prothom Alo in an exclusive interview at his residence on Saturday afternoon, Lee Yun Young expressed his opinion that, for the sake of friendship between the two countries, the decision to set up Bangladesh’s first private EPZ should be implemented speedily. Prothom Alo: At a recent meeting chaired by the prime minister, a decision was made to take back KEPZ land. When did ...

Govt cuts fuel oil imports by up to 66pc

State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corp will import just one 30,000-mt cargo of 180 CST fuel oil with 3.5% sulfur content, per month instead of the two-three cargoes it was importing earlier, amid surplus supply at its storage tanks, company chairman AM Badrudduja said Monday. “We have requested our supplier to provide less fuel oil as we are now taking one 30,000-mt 180 CST high sulfur fuel oil cargo per month instead of two-three per month, to cope with the existing oversupply,” he said. bpc oilBadrudduja did not say how long BPC would continu...
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