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PM inaugurates ICT project for women development

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the Digital Training Bus project for Sustainable Women Development through ICT. The hon’ble PM inaugurated the project right after inaugurating the three day long ICT event Digital World 2016 at the International Convention City, Basundhara on Thursday. ICT Division of the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications & Information Technology (MoPT&IT), the country’s second largest telecom operator Robi Axiata Limited and globally leading ICT solution provider Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited are going to jointly execute this project, says a press release. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith MP, Finance Minister; Imran Ahmed MP, Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Techno...

Regional seminar on ‘chemical safety’ begins

A three-day regional seminar on ‘Chemical Safety and Security Management’ began in the city today. Bangladesh National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention (BNACWC) arranged the seminar at Antora Hall, Radisson Blu, Water Garden here, said an ISPR release. 2016-1jpgAhmet Uzumcu, Director General of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inaugurated the Seminar, BSS reports. Lt. Gen. Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Chairman, Bangladesh National Authority for BNACWC gave welcome address. Additional fore...

Robi-Airtel merger okayed

Bangladesh’s first ever merger proposal of two mobile phone operators - Robi and Airtel - has got the final approval from the telecom regulator. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) in a meeting today cleared the proposal terming it as a “positive move” for the telecom industry of the country, BSS reports. Talking to BSS, BTRC Chairman Dr Shahjahan Mahmood said they have approved the merger 2016-10-18_bss-47_359532proposal as it is in line with the consent of the High...

Digital World-2016 kicks off tomorrow

The country’s largest digital expo “Digital World-2016” will begin tomorrow to showcase the technology-based innovations and achievements and facilitate in a single platform for sharing ICT knowledge and ideas. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the three-day flagship annual event of the country’s ICT sector with the theme “Non-stop Bangladesh” at the International 2016-10-18_bss-49_982377Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital, reports BSS. The ICT Division ...

British Council celebrates World Sight Day 2016

The British Council in partnership with Standard Chartered bank has celebrated World Sight Day 2016 recently at British Council, Fuller Road office. World Sight Day is a special annual day of awareness that is celebrated around the world each year to focus on blindness and vision impairment. To celebrate this day British Council had arranged a Young Learners’ Art Competition with this year’s Theme “Stronger Together”. Around 2500 kids (aged between 5 -14) from all over Bangladesh took part in the art bc_world-sight-day-3

Don’t provide info to fraudsters: BTRC

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Monday issued a notice asking all mobile phone subscribers not to provide personal and biometric SIM registration-related information to fraudsters seeking over phone. According to the notice, fraud/criminal gangs are taking away customers’ personal and biometric SIM-related information, and PINs of mobile financial accounts, including bKash, through making phone calls and sending SMSs in the name of BTRC officials and different btrcmobile phone operators, reports UNB. ...
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