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by Tahmima Anam: As an apprentice anthropologist, I once had the misfortune of attempting to converse with the Indian critical theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Professor Spivak, who translated the work of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and wrote the famous essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” was visiting Dhaka, Bangladesh, and I went to meet her. […]
Read MoreBangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers topped 116 million at the end of May, with about 3 million new users in the first five months of this year, official data showed Wednesday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the total number of cell phone users in the South Asian country of about 153 million people reached […]
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It took Western safety inspectors about an hour to tour a factory the size of three football fields before ordering a partial shutdown of Sonia & Sweaters, a Bangladeshi clothing supplier to Wal-Mart Stores and Debenhams. Two weeks later, the group that the inspectors represented changed its mind and allowed the factory to stay open, […]
Read MoreOnly 5 million of Bangladesh’s 152 million citizens have regular Internet access. Three-quarters live in rural villages. The Infoladies, a group of about 50 women in their early 20s, travel through the countryside equipped with a laptop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a digital camera, and a glucometer ministering to the technologically impoverished, reports Bloomberg […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 9 (NsNewsWire) — The country’s second largest cell phone company Friday launched 3G services in Bogra followed by a jovial rally in the presence of massive crowd of all ages. The rally started by flying off balloons and consisted of 3G branded caravans, horse carts, paddle vans etc., along with the playing of […]
Read MoreNo time for LTE complacency; it’s full speed ahead for trials of the next generation of mobile broadband technologies. Guy Daniels reports. Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has today announced plans for major 5G experimental trials with six of the industry’s leading equipment vendors. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung will collaborate with the mobile operator […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 8 (NsNewsWire) — Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) in association with Asian Paints, IRCON and Marico Bangladesh is organising An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet by Mrs. Nandita Yasmin, at 6:30 PM on May 10, 2014 at the IGCC, House No. 35, Road No. 24, Gulshan-1, Dhaka. Mrs. Nandita Yasmin was initiated to the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 8 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone brings in an Internet enabled mobile handset at lowest cost in Bangladesh. The Symphony D51i handset priced BDT 1490 comes with attractive free Data package from Grameenphone.The handset was unveiled today at GPHouse in presence of the officials from Grameenphone Ltd. and Edison Group (Symphony Mobile). Erlend Prestgard, Head […]
Read MoreNorway, May 7 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group Wednesday announced that it has appointed Mr. Michael Patrick Foley as the new Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Pakistan. Mr. Foley assumes the role at a significant moment in Telenor Pakistan’s history – as the country moves into a future where everyone will be able to access the […]
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