Solar home systems lighting up rural Bangladesh

DHAKA, June 23 (NsNewsWire) — The Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development II (RERED II) Project  provides electricity in rural remote villages of Bangladesh through solar power and renewable energy sources. Together,  the RERED II and its predecessor RERED project have supported more than 3.9 million solar home systems (SHS) in rural Bangladesh benefiting over […]

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Grameenphone pledges to educate about online bullying

DHAKA, June 22 (NsNewsWire) —  With an estimated half billion youth in Telenor Asia’s markets of Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand accessing the internet for the first time in the next five years, Grameenphone and its parent company, Telenor Group, hope to educate young users on the benefits of connectivity, as well as […]

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Helping Smooth and Reliable Electricity Supply in Rural Bangladesh

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 […]

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Youth hooked on mobile messaging but preference varies, says Telenor research

Fornebu, 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 […]

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Bangladesh Signs $130 Million World Bank Loan for Economic Zones

DHAKA, 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 […]

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Outgoing Egyptian Ambassador calls on Foreign Minister

DHAKA, 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 […]

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Telenor appoints New CEOs in Bulgaria and Pakistan

Fornebu, 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 […]

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Bangladesh making transformational shift to digital procurement Over 55,000 tenders valued US$5.8 billion done in e-GP

DHAKA, 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 […]

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