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PDB bill pay thru’ Robi in Sylhet, Rangpur

Robi has launched electricity bill payment service facility for Power Development Board (PDB) in Sylhet and Rangpur regions. Robi believes that this will facilitate a reliable and convenient mechanism for the clients of PDB to pay their monthly electricity bills. Robi has already started collecting electricity bill for March from these two regions. cash pointRobi’s system for mobile payment of electricity bills will be integrated with the PDB’s electricity billing system. Hence, electricity bills paid through Robi’s electricity bills payment system...

IMF says India could fuel global growth

Conditions ripe for India to reap demographic dividend and become a key engine for global growth, says Lagarde

 With a projected growth rate of 7.5% in 2015-16, India will become the world’s fastest growing major economy, fuelling global growth at a time when advanced economies are under stress and other emerging economies are slowing down, International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde said on Monday. Delivering a lecture on Seizing India’s Moment at Lady Sri Ram College, Lagarde said this is a special moment for India. “Just as many countries around the world are grappling with low growth, India has been marching in the opposite direction... In this cloudy global horizon, India is a bright spot,” she said.

Echolalia – a communication challenge

Autism Spectrum Disorders are characterized by difficulty with communication. Those difficulties can present themselves as apraxia, difficulty with talking at all; scripting, which is memorizing whole television shows, plays, movies or tapes, or echolalia. echoliaEcholalia is repeating utterances heard from another person, usually as a response to the other person. Although not strictly confined to children with autism (it can also appear in individuals with schizophrenia) it is most common among children with autism, and can create significant...

The Power of the Powerless

 The Politics of Poverty at the Doha Round

On April 15, the World Trade Organization (WTO) will mark its 20th anniversary. But no one will be in the mood to celebrate. The Doha Development Agenda—the first round of trade negotiations launched under the umbrella of the WTO and the ninth in the history of the multilateral trading system—has been deadlocked since it began in November 2001. Its goal is to encourage international trade by lowering Female workers share food with their c... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

GP chooses Opera Mini

Opera Software on Monday announced that GrameenPhone, the largest mobile phone operator in Bangladesh, has chosen Opera Mini to bring the full Internet to its mobile phone subscribers. GrameenPhone has a 62% market share in Bangladesh and will be offering a customized and localized version of Opera Mini as a free download to its 5.5 million subscribers. The company is also responsible for opera minipromoting and distributing the browser through its own channels in order to maximize its market penetration in Bangladesh. “We are very happy to see thi...

How scary is the bond market?

IN The prices of long-term government bonds have been running very high in recent years (that is, their yields have been very low). In the United States, the 30-year Treasury bond yield reached a record low (since the Federal Reserve series began in 1972) of 2.25% on January 30. The yield on the United Kingdom’s 30-year government bond fell to 2.04% on the same day. The Japanese 20-year government bond yielded just 0.87% on January 20. islamic bondAll of these yields have since moved slightly higher, but they remain exceptionally low. It seems ...
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