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UK Education Open Day in city June 4

The British Council Bangladesh is going to organise a UK Education Open Day on 4 June 2016 at the British Council, 5 Fuller Road, Dhaka. Thirteen education agencies trained by the British Council will participate in the event to provide information to visitors on more than 100 higher education institutions in the UK. UK_BDIn addition to obtaining information on higher education in the UK, students visiting the event will be able to get their academic documents checked on the spot by the trained agents at the event. The participati...

Gulf Air resumes Dhaka operation

Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, yesterday resumed its Dhaka flight after four years. The airline will operate five flights every week. The maiden flight landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International in the morning yesterday with 80 percent passenger on board. To celebrate its flight resumption, Gulf Air organised an event at Balaka lounge at the Shahjalal International Airport. Wing Commander Chowdhury Md. Zia-Ul Kabir, Director, Flight Safety & Gulf Air Image-1Regulations, Civil Aviation Autho...

Bagdoom gets ‘Best Lifestyle Category in E-commerce’ award

Bagdoom, the leading name among e-commerce platforms of Bangladesh received the prestigious award of “Best Lifestyle Category in E-commerce” at ‘eCourier Summer Merchants Meet-up 2016’, held at All Community Club in Gulshan-2 of the capital yesterday. ‘eCourier eCourier awardSummer Merchant Meet-up 2016’ was organized by eCourier Ltd, an eco-friendly courier service in Dhaka, providing delivery service mainly to eCommerce companies and to non e-commerce clients as well. Bagdoom.com is the rebranded identity of ...

15 lakh Bangladeshis living like ‘slaves’: Report

Over 15 lakh people in Bangladesh are living like slaves with nearly half the population vulnerable to be exposed to it, a report of Australia-based Walk Free Foundation said today. Global Slavery Index for 2016 placed Bangladesh 10th among 167 countries in prevalence ranking with an estimated 15.3 lakh people living like slaves with over 44 percent of the population at risk of being exposed to it. capture_3Last reported in 2014, the index placed about 6.8 lakh Bangladeshis living in conditions of modern da...

China, Bangladesh pledge to boost cooperation

China and Bangladesh on Sunday agreed to deepen bilateral cooperation during a meeting between visiting Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan and Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid. Bangladesh and China have long been working closely in various fields and the cooperation has yielded fruitful results, Xinhua news agency quoted the Bangladeshi president as saying. Bangladesh has always stood together with China on issues concerning China's core interests and international affairs. The country also firmly supports the China-proposed "Belt and Road" Initiative, said Hamid, adding Bangladesh is willing to have sincere collaboration with China as the two countries jointly promote regional prosperity and development. He expressed hope that the two armies

Insiders may be involved in BB cyber theft: Probe officials

Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in a brazen theft of $81 million from its account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank in February, the head of a government-appointed panel investigating the cyber heist told reporters on Monday. Hackers broke into the computer systems of the Bangladesh central bank and issued instructions through the SWIFT network to transfer $951 million of its deposits held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank to accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Most of the transactions were blocked but four went through, amounting to $81 million,
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