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DHAKA, Nov. 23 (NsNewsWire) — The Grand Finale of Battle of Minds (BoM) 2017 is set to be held on December 06, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Water Garden hotel in Dhaka with the sponsorship of British American Tobacco Bangladesh. Despite terming it as recruitment platform, mostly the competition allows the final round competitors to […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said that education system needs to change and encourage entrepreneurship over seeking job offers. He was addressing a house packed with tribal youth from all over India, activists and scholars at an event in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in India at the concluding day of Samvaad – Tata Steel’s […]
Read MoreDOHA, Nov. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Qatar has made the residency procedures easier for expatriate workers by allowing them to complete the procedures at their home countries, reports Xinhua quoting Qatar News Agency (QNA) Monday. A new agreement had been signed between the Qatari Ministry of the Interior and a Singapore-based company, for completing all of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 20 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers exceeded 140 million at the end of September 2017 with addition of over 14 million new users in the first 3Qs of this year, statistics of the country’s telecom regulator showed Sunday, reports Xinhua. With 1.41 million new addition in September, according […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 20 (NsNewsWire) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh have signed agreements for 260 million U.S. dollars in loans to help sustain and increase infrastructure investments in Bangladesh, particularly in financing public-private partnership (PPP) projects as well as renewable energy interventions, reports Xinhua. Kazi Shofiqul Azam, secretary of Bangladesh’s […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Google Developer DevFest Bangladesh 2017 presented by Google Developer Group Dhaka and powered by Whiteboard, in association with Preneur Lab, took place on November 18 at GP House. Honorable State Minister of ICT, Zunayed Ahmed Palak MP, was also present at the event as the Chief Guest where he […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Saturday that China is willing to help Bangladesh and Myanmar properly solve the Rohingya issue, reports Xinhua. Speaking to the press, the Chinese foreign minister said the turbulence in Myanmar has spread to Bangladesh and brought burden to it, yet Bangladesh has […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement which Grameenphone in Dhaka sent on Thursday evening on tax evasion allegations leveled against the company : “Grameenphone CEO Statement Following is a statement from Michael Foley, CEO, Grameenphone Ltd. responding to the recent media stories on tax evasion allegations […]
Read MoreLONDON, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in the United Kingdom for four days for events organized around his new book “A World of Three Zeroes” which focusses on how we can create a world of zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions. The first stop of the tour […]
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