For years Anowara Begum fretted about how frequent power outages in her tiny shack in the Baonia-Badh slum in Dhaka’s Mirpur suburb, interrupted her daily embroidery work, depriving her of crucial income that supports her two children and husband.
“It really hampered my work as I could not see properly the needle and thread due to the darkness,” Begum, 41, told Khabar South Asia, adding, “even my children could not do their homework in the evening”.
But things have improved ever since CHANGE, a Dhaka-based non-government organisation (NGO), installed botol bati (liter of light) at her home in April. “Now, we get ample light through the solar-powered bottle of light,” she said.
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Airtel Bangladesh Ltd, one of the fastest growing mobile service providers of the country has launched a pioneering payment system through mobile phone service in Bangladesh. For the first time, Airtel’s Valued Customers can enjoy a cashless and card less solution for making payments at fuel stations in Dhaka.
Now, an Airtel Customer with a DBBL mobile account can pay from his/her mobile phone while refilling fuel for their vehicle without using any cash or card for the fuel. Ai...
BPC (Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation) plans to import 1.3 million tons of oil in 2014 for its sole refinery, up more than 8 per cent from a year ago, a senior BPC official said On Wednesday.
Next year, 700,000 tons of Murban crude would be sourced from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
BPC, the country’s sole oil importer and distributor, bought around 1.2 million tons of crude from the two national oil companies in 2013 for its Eastern Refinery in port city Chittagong.
It ...
The Gateway Hotels & Resorts, part of the Taj Group, announced the launch of The Gateway Hotel EM Bypass Kolkata. This will be the first Gateway branded hotel in Kolkata and the second Taj hotel after 24 years post the launch of Taj Bengal in 1989.
The Gateway Hotels & Resorts caters to the upscale segment and has expanded its footprint in Eastern India with this launch. With the opening of this hotel, The Gateway Hotels & Resorts now has 24 hotels in its portfolio, says a press release.
Popular singers will rock the resort area on the first day of the two-day inaugural ceremony, reports UNB.
Besides, inv...
Popular singers will rock the resort area on the first day of the two-day inaugural ceremony, reports UNB.
Besides, inv...
