Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
DHAKA, June 21 (Xinhua) — Access to grid electricity in rural areas is rapidly increasing with more than 300,000 new connections every month in Bangladesh. However, rural households often suffer from power cuts due to electricity supply constraints, network congestion, and over-loading. Through the Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Project, the government is addressing […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 20 (NsNewsWire) — High interest rates and a lack of financial literacy are highlighted as major obstacles to factories in the Bangladesh Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector from obtaining remediation financing according to a report launched by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and International Labour Organization (ILO) in Dhaka today. According to the […]
Read MoreFornebu, June 20 (NsNewsWire) — The Facebook family is strengthening its position amongst digital frontrunners globally. While most time is spent on messaging apps, today’s young consumers still rate SMS and mobile calls as intrinsic to their communication habits. And there’s a new challenger on the market: watch out as internet calls gain momentum in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 19 (NsNewsWire) — The government of Bangladesh today signed a $130 million additional financing agreement with the World Bank to scale up support for the recently licensed and new economic zones to attract foreign and domestic investment as well as to create more jobs in the manufacturing sector. The additional financing to the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 14 (NsNewsWire) — The outgoing Egyptian Ambassador in Bangladesh and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Dhaka Mahmoud Ezzat made a farewell call on Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali MP this morning in the Foreign Ministry. The Egyptian Ambassador expressed his thanks and appreciation for extending all support to him in […]
Read MoreFornebu, June 14 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group has today appointed Michael Foley as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Telenor Bulgaria and Irfan Wahab Khan as CEO of Telenor Pakistan. The new appointments will be effective from 1 August 2016, and both Foley and Khan will be members of the Group Executive Management team. “I am […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 9 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh is making transformational shift to its public procurement environment with exponential growth of electronic government procurement, known as e-GP, covering four key government agencies: Roads and Highways Department, Local Government Engineering Department, Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board, and Bangladesh Water Development Board. These agencies together spend about half the country’s […]
Read MoreDHAKA, June 8 (NsNewsWire) — Robi has observed the World Environment Day by organizing a session on “Green Dhaka” initiative at the company’s corporate office recently. The Robi employees were urged, in the session, to plant trees to ensure a greener and cleaner environment as well as contributing in combatting the adverse impacts of the […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, June 7 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank today approved $10 million in additional financing to help Bangladesh scale up its electronic government procurement system to meet higher demand for more effective and efficient use of public funds. This additional financing to the Public Procurement Reform Project II will help set up a new state-of-the-art […]
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