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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. ...

WB looks for ways to increase funding in Bangladesh: Kim

Visiting World Bank (WB) president Jim Yong Kim on Monday said the bank was now looking aggressively for increasing its funding to support Bangadesh. He said the World Bank was no more involved with the construction of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge but it understood the importance of the bridge, reports New Age. The government is constructing the bridge on own funding after the global bank cancelled 1.2 wbbilllion dollar loan citing conspiracies of corruption in tender process. Kim said the bank preferred continuing discussion on it...

Stocks suffer from extensive price fall

Stock market suffered extensive price fall on Monday as investors were selling shares for profit booking. The falling price pulled the price indices down at both Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). At DSE, only 93 securities finished higher when 183 issues across the board incurred loss. Similarly, 143 issues closed lower at CSE against only 74 advancing securities. Like previous trading sessions, majority of the issues from large-cap group suffered loss. dse-logo_2Due to the wide range pri...

WB to provide additional $ 1b for childcare

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim today declared an additional USD 1 billion fund for Bangladesh to develop childcare in the country. The financing will be disbursed in the next two years and will be to develop the situation of child health and nutrition, the visiting WB chief said in a briefing. kim-wb-afp-wbKim made the announcement at a joint press conference after holding talks with Bangladesh Finance Minister AMA Muhith at his ministry office in Dhaka. ‘PADMA BRIDGE TROUBLES OVER’ Finance Minister M...
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