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Robi Circle Club facilitates digital socialization

Robi has introduced new features to its SMS based social media platform Robi Circle. Robi subscribers of similar interest can now form clubs within the Robi circle where people of similar interest can engage with each other on topics that interests them most. The Robi Circle has separate clubs for Cricket, Entertainment, Foodies, Gaming, Readers, picture-robi-circle-club-1Travel and Women. Each Circle Club is dedicated to conversations on that particular topic. Each of the Chat Club will...

Tk 8b wasted in BTCL project to favour a firm

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has undertaken a project spending an additional Tk 8 billion on the pretext of ‘emergency’, official documents suggest. For the project to modernise digital telecommunication infrastructure, a Chinese company offered its services for Tk 11.6 billion, but the BTCL decided to accept another Chinese company’s tender for Tk 20.48 billion to implement the project. The second bidder was awarded the job in violation of procurement rules and directives from telecomthe authoriti...

Syria-bound Russian military jet crashes

A Russian military plane crashed Sunday in the Black Sea as it made its way to Syria with 91 people onboard, including musicians heading to celebrate the New Year with troops. Local news agencies, citing the defence ministry, said the Tu-154 plane had crashed shortly after taking off from the southern city of Adler, south of the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, at 5:40 am local time (0240 GMT), reports AFP. It was conducting a routine flight to Russia’s Hmeimim airbase outside the coastal Syrian city plane-450x253

Akashleena inaugurated

Nurul Islam Nahid, MP, Honourable Education Minister in presence of Mr. A Rouf Chowdhury, Chairman of Bank Asia is unveiling plaque of Bank Asia-financed newly built reading room ‘Akashleena’ at the Girls’ Hostel of Begum Badrunnesa Government Women College in the akashleenacapital Dhaka today (Saturday, December 24, 2016). Prof. Mahbuba Rahman, Principal of the College and Mr. Md. Arfan Ali, President & Managing Director of the Bank are, among others, seen in the picture. Earlier, the Education Minister inaugurate...

Rohingya find help, sympathy in Bangladesh

On the shores of the Naf River in Southern Bangladesh, fishermen aren’t the only ones taking to the waters. In the last two months, hundreds of boats loaded with Rohingya Muslims fleeing across the river from Myanmar have arrived near the border town of Teknaf. Most residents in the predominately Muslim country are sympathetic to the plight of the ethnic Rohingya who use the area as an entry point into the country to escape persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. rohingya-childrenWhile some of the a...

IPDC relaunches Bangladesh operation

‘Industrial Promotion and Development Company of Bangladesh Limited’ (IPDC) has relaunched its operations in Bangladesh in a gala event at the Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden. The Honorable Finance Minister of The People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Mr. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, MP was the Chief Guest at this gala event along with Guest of Honor, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC were present at this gala event. Among others Mr. Mominul Islam, MD and CEO, IPDC Finance Limited and high officials of Bangladesh Bank were also present at the gala event. Since 1981, being the first ever financial institute in the country, IPDC played a pivotal role in reshaping the private sector industrialization of the country through innovative financial
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