Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
The Northern Areas Reduction-of-Poverty Initiative (NARI) project, supported by the World Bank, aims to economically empower poor and vulnerable women from the northwestern region by facilitating their access to jobs in the ready-made garment sector. The project has started construction for building dormitories and training centers in three designated sites in Dhaka, Karnaphuli, and Ishwardi […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 23 (PID Handout) — A 7-member delegation led by Ambassador Mustafa Kamal, Secretary (Bilateral), Ministry of Foreign Affairs is going to take part at the second Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) between Bangladesh and South Africa in Pretoria on 25-26 November. The bilateral relations between the two countries have been excellent, which witness an […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 23 (BRAC Press Release) — 12 victims with disability of Savar Rana Plaza tragedy received artificial limb support from BRAC Brace and limb center (BLBC) in an informal event held by BRAC today. In addition to this, BRAC provided fixed deposit of BDT 100,000 for each 12 victims as a part of long […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 23 (UCB Press Release) — The grand launching of United Commercial Bank Limited’s (UCB) exclusive mobile financial service UCash was held at the Grand Ballroom of Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka on 23 November 2013. This initiative of mobile financial service is an innovative approach of UCB to spread banking service and facilities to […]
Read Moreঢাকা,২৩ নভেম্বর, প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি: গত ২৩ নভেম্বর ২০১৩ তারিখে ঢাকার প্যান প্যাসিফিক সোনারগাঁও হোটেলে ইউনাইটেড কমার্শিয়াল ব্যাংক লিমিটেডের (ইউসিবি) মোবাইল আর্থিক পরিষেবা ‘ইউক্যাশ’ এর আড়ম্বরপূর্ন উদ্বোধন অনুষ্ঠিত হয়। ইউসিবি’র সম্মানিত চেয়ারম্যান জনাব এম. এ. হাশেম ‘ইউক্যাশ’ এর আনুষ্ঠানিক উদ্বোধন করেন। ব্যাংকিং সুবিধাবঞ্চিত মানুষের কাছে ব্যাংকিং সেবা পৌঁছে দিতে ইউনাইটেড কমার্শিয়াল ব্যাংক লিমিটেড চালু করল মোবাইল […]
Read MoreSri Lanka’s tour of Bangladesh, which was scheduled for February 2014, has been advanced by a few days to allow the Asia Cup to kick off on February 24. Bangladesh will now host Sri Lanka for two Tests starting on January 27, a week after Sri Lanka’s Test series against Pakistan in the UAE concludes. […]
Read MoreBy STEVEN GREENHOUSE: One year after the Tazreen factory fire in Bangladesh, many retailers that sold garments produced there or inside the Rana Plaza building that collapsed last spring are refusing to join an effort to compensate the families of the more than 1,200 workers who died in those disasters. Related Marines Toughen Rules for […]
Read MoreRescuers have removed bodies from a Latvian supermarket whose roof had crashed down on shoppers, as the death toll from the country’s worst post-Soviet disaster rose to 49 with 30 more feared trapped under the rubble. Hope of finding more survivors was dwindling some 24 hours after the roof of the Maxima supermarket caved in […]
Read MoreShakil Afridi, the hero Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA pinpoint Usama bin Laden’s compound ahead of the Navy SEAL raid that killed the Al Qaeda leader, has been charged with murder — for trying to save a little boy stricken with appendicitis six years ago, according to his attorney. The bizarre charge comes as […]
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