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China donates 50 ambulances, calamity rescue equipment to Bangladesh‏

DHAKA, March 4 (NsNewsWire) — As a token of friendship of the Chinese people towards Bangladesh, China has donated 50 ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the country’s Fire Service and Civil Defence. Li Jun, Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, handed over the ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the Bangladesh authorities in a ceremony on […]

Bangladesh ends January with 114.8 mln mobile subs

HAKA, March 4 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’ mobile base grew to 114.81 million in January from 113.78 million a month earlier. Grameenphone led the market with 47.64 million customers, up from 47.11 million, followed by Banglalink with 28.93 million subscribers, up from 28.84 million in December 2013.reports telecompaper.com Robi Axiata ended the month with 25.61 million […]

Haryana unearths cough syrup diversion to Bangladesh

DHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — In a crackdown against abuse of medicinal intoxicants, Haryana’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Sunday said it has unearthed illicit diversion and transportation to Bangladesh of huge quantities of a cough syrup made and sold by a multinational pharmaceutical giant. The FDA found out that over two lakh bottles of […]

China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead

DHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China in what state media said Sunday was a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists from the far west. Twenty-nine slash victims and four attackers were killed and 143 people wounded. Police fatally shot four […]

Falling revenue, rising debt burden, shrinking investment to check GDP expansion

DHAKA, March 1 (NsNewsWire) — The Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update reveals that fall in growth in collection of revenue, rising per capita debt burden and shrinking public sector investment may contract expansion of gross domestic product (GDP). The think tank’s observation came in the […]

US $600 million to improve electricity supply in rural Bangladesh benefitting 25 million people

WASHINGTON, Febr. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank Board approved today US$ 600 million in concessional financing to improve the quality of electricity supply in the rural areas in the eastern part of Bangladesh. The Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution Project aims to reduce system losses and enhance capacity in the electricity network in rural […]

From Bangladesh to Bucky: UW revisits licensing and workers’ safety policies

DHAKA, Feb. 28 (NsNewsWire) — After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers’ safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W. UW has 447 licensees producing university branded clothing around the world, and […]

Airtel hosts “Airtel Service Center Meet” in Chittagong to engage with ASC owners

DHAKA, Febr. 27, (NsNewsWire) — Airtel Bangladesh Limited, one of fastest growing telecom operators of the country, has recently organized an event called ‘Airtel Service Center Meet’ for their valued Airtel Service Center (ASC) owners at Asian SR Hotel, Station Road in Chittagong. Airtel has 1700 ASCs in Bangladesh out of which 475 are located […]

GP awarded Green Mobile Award

DHAKA, Feb. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone has been awarded the prestigious Green Mobile Award by GSMA for its extensive Climate Change Program. The Climate Change Program was initiated by Grameenphone in 2010, with the objective of minimizing the negative environmental impact on the community through CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consumption. Initiatives within the Program […]