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DHAKA, Feb. 8 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone received the first batch of the GP Accelerator today at GPHouse in Bashundhara. GP Accelerator, a four-month business boot camp, will provide extensive training and resources to the first batch, consisting of a total of 5 startups, allowing them to build their businesses quicker than they could otherwise in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, will lead a team of Commonwealth election observers to Uganda for the country’s general elections, scheduled for 18 February 2016. Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced the composition of the Commonwealth Observer Group on Friday 5 February, having received an invitation from the Government of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Banglalink, the second largest mobile operator of the country and Concito PR have recently signed an agreement where Concito PR has been selected as the exclusive PR agency for Banglalink. The agreement was signed at Tiger’s Den, head office of Banglalink in Dhaka. Managing Director and CEO of Banglalink, Erik […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh will launch a two-year-long national awareness campaign from Feb. 11 to save tigers, officials said on Wednesday, reports Xinhua. They said Bengal Tiger Conservation Activity (Bagh), a joint project of the Bangladesh government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will launch the campaign. Bengal Tiger Conservation […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Bangladesh Devrim Ozturk paid a courtesy call on the Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, MP this morning at the Foreign Ministry. During the meeting they discussed on various issues of bilateral relations as well as different regional and international issues of mutual […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) — The central bank of Bangladesh has launched a project for further development of small and medium enterprises (SME). To meet skill gaps as well as to create new entrepreneurs, Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Atiur Rahman launched a project titled “Skills for Employment Investment Program (SEIP)”, assisted by Asian Development Bank […]
Read MoreIn 2013, Bengali Muslim woman Sanjida traveled to the small town of Pirojpur to continue her studies when she met Puja, the youngest daughter of the man from whom she was renting a room, reports BBC. “She was wearing an olive green blouse and petticoat. The back of the blouse had two strings that were […]
Read Moreby Peerzada Arshad Hamid NEW DELHI, Feb. 3 (NsNewswire) — India’s Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to review its previous judgment that upheld a law criminalizing homosexuality, reports Xinhua. The apex court referred the curative plea seeking re-examination of its earlier verdict on criminalizing homosexuality to its five-judge constitution bench. The colonial-era law — Section 377 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque, who is on a two-day bilateral visit to New Delhi at the invitation of India’s Foreign Secretary Dr. S. Jaishankar, met his counterpart at the Indian capital yesterday (1 February) . The bilateral talks were held at the Hyderabad House last evening where the […]
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