4G helps recovery of Europe’s mobile industry: GSMA repor

BRUSSELS, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Europe’s rapid migration to 4G services and devices helped to stimulate the recovery of the mobile industry, according to a new GSM Association (GSMA) report published during the GSMA Mobile 360-Europe event here on Monday. The new report, “Mobile Economy: Europe 2014,” said the financial outlook of the mobile industry […]

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NsNewsWire exceeds 1000 likes on Facebook

DHAKA, Dec. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s 1st Press News Agency — NsNewsWire — (today) Tuesday passed 1000 fans on Facebook, so to say a big thank you to all those who have ‘liked’ the page since it was launched in July last year. NsNewsWire Facebook page has become a hub for all of its news […]

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Mobile banking to promote countryside growth in Bangladesh

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 9 (NsNewsWire) — In Bangladesh, less than a quarter of the impoverished country’s 153 million people are using the normal banking system in their monetary transactions. But things are changing across Bangladesh with an easy and safe way to send or receive money through the mobile banking system. Mobile banking is […]

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India reiterates commitment to upgrade BSTI

DHAKA, Dec. 9 (NsNewsWire) — High Commissioner of India Pankaj Saran has visited the Bangladesh Standards Testing Institute (BSTI). He visited BSTI in the city’s Tejgaon area on Dec. 8. In accordance with the Joint Communique signed during the visit of H.E. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India in 2010, India and Bangladesh are implementing […]

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Bangladesh earns over 12 bln USD from exports in July-November

DHAKA, Dec. 8 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s export income in the first five months of the current 2014-15 fiscal year (July 2014 to June 2015) grew a meager 0.92 percent to 12.07 billion U.S. dollars. An Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) official said export performance in November was 2.417 billion U.S. dollars, nearly 10 percent up compared […]

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Apparel summit for 50 bln USD garment export roadmap kicks off

DHAKA, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) – Bangladesh’s 1st ever apparel summit kicked off in capital Dhaka on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the three-day at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. The summit aimed at discussing roadmap to nearly double the country’s garment export income which stood at over 24 billion US dollars in 2013-14 fiscal year […]

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Dhaka Bank DMD Neaz Mohammad Khan expires

DHAKA, Dec. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Dhaka Bank family deeply mourns the sad demise of Mr. Neaz Mohammad Khan, Deputy Managing Director of Dhaka Bank Limited. He breathed his last at Square Hospital, Dhaka on December 7, 2014 at the age of 57 (Inna Lillah he wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun) (Truly, to Allah we belong, Truly, […]

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UNR students head for med study in Bangladesh

Reno-based medical students are studying disease in Bangladesh and bringing the knowledge home, thanks to a Reno nonprofit. DuWell Medical will announce more programs at its Monday fundraiser, Curry for Kids. The nonprofit, started by Reno’s Kowsar Khan, sends students from University of Nevada, Reno to DuWell’s Bangladesh clinic, reports RGJ. DuWell also hopes to […]

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Bangladesh exports 25,000 tons of rice to Sri Lanka

DHAKA, Dec. 4 (NsNewsWire) –Bangladesh will export 25,000 metric tons of rice to Sri Lanka. In this connection, Sarwar Khan, director general of Bangladesh’s Directorate of Food, and Nalin Fernando, chairman of Lanka Sathosa Ltd, signed the agreement on be half their respective sides on Wednesday in capital Dhaka. Bangladesh exported rice at 450 U.S. […]

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