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Carmudi’s Android app launched

Selling your car is a long, tedious process; but leading online car classified Carmudi has made this a lot simpler by the launching of  Carmudi’s Android app. To make it even more user-friendly, recently this month, Carmudi brought in special enhancements in its app’s features for the seller’s side. Four easy steps and sellers can have their car up for sale in less than 2 minutes mobile-app-imageWith more than 1 million Android device users activated every single day and 1.5 billion App downloads happening every month, Android...

Trade fair gets 10-day extension

The government has extended the ongoing Dhaka International Trade Fair by 10 days to help the participants that have suffered a sharp fall in sales as fears of political violence kept visitors away. The 20th edition of the month-long exposition at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital was scheduled to end on January 31. Now it will end on February 10. The Export Promotion Bureau, the organiser, took the decision at a meeting with Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday, according to an official of the ministry. ditfThe extension came after the num...

No reason to increase REB, DESCO electricity price    

Staff committee of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Sunday said that the Rural Electrification Board would need to raise the retail power price by 0.27 per cent and the Dhaka Electric Supply Company would not need to raise the price. PowerREB, however, demanded a 25.89 per cent hike in retail power price and that the DESCO demanded a 17.45 per cent hike following a Power Development Board proposed hike in bulk power price by 18.12 per cent and the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh’s demand to raise the transmission charge by 71 per cent. The s...

Bangladesh aims to be world’s ‘first solar nation’  

Residents of Islampur, a remote village in the northern Bangladeshi district of Naogaon, were stunned one night last summer when the darkness was suddenly illuminated by electric lights coming from a village home. Why the surprise? The community has no connection to the country’s power grid. solar-450x219The owner of the house, Rafiqul Islam, is one of around 15 million Bangladeshis whose homes are now powered by solar home systems, or SHS, under a government scheme to provide clean power to communities with no access to grid ele...

Over 50pc street foods are contaminated

More than 50 percent of food items and beverages sold on city streets are found contaminated with various groups of bacteria called coliform, said a study. “More than 50 percent street foods and beverages are contaminated by coliform while more than one- third street foods is unhygienic by faecal pathogen (E.coli),” said the study. food.png-640The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), an international health research organization, today unveiled the information at a programme at its Sasakawa Aud...

US, India cooperation on civil nuclear trade

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is moving towards commercial cooperation on civil nuclear trade with the United States, six years after the two sides signed a landmark civilian nuclear deal in 2008.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="670"]US President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) talk as they have coffee and tea together in the gardens of Hyderabad House in New Delhi January 25, 2015. Photo: Reuters US President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) talk as they have ...
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