Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobodhikar Sambadhik Forum (BMSF) in demanding the immediate release of journalist Rabiullah Robi arrested on August 19, accused of violating religious sentiment. Robi, news editor of the Bangla-language daily Inqilab, was arrested in a midnight raid at the newspaper office at RK Mission Road, Dhaka. This […]
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ওয়ার্ল্ড রেম্যান’র উদ্যোগে ২৬ জুলাই ঢাকার শিশু একাডেমী ভবনের সামনে গরিব ও পথশিশুদের মধ্যে ঈদবস্ত্র বিতরণ করা হয়। এ সময় তারা শতাধিক পথশিশুর মাঝে ঈদবস্ত্র বিতরণ করেন। ঈদবস্ত্র বিতরণের সময় উপস্থিত ছিলেন সংগঠনটির সভাপতি শফিউল আজম, সাংগঠনিক সম্পাদক আব্দুস সাত্তার পাটোয়ারী, মহাসচিব লোকমান হোসেন। এছাড়া সদস্যের মধ্যে উপস্থিত ছিলেন নাঈম-উল-করিম, রেজাউন নূর মেহেদী এবং মহিউদ্দিন […]
Read MoreKenya’s Airtel has confirmed that the country’s Competition Authority is investigating a complaint about the pricing of mobile money services. Airtel had sent a complaint to the anti-trust regulator after reportedly noticing that the country’s largest mobile network operator, Safaricom charges more for money transfers to Airtel customers than it does for transfers to its […]
Read MoreBangladesh said Thursday it has barred official marriages between its nationals and Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, whom it claims are attempting to wed to gain citizenship. Law minister Syed Anisul Haque said he has ordered marriage registrars not to officiate any unions between Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas and also between Rohingyas themselves, thousands of whom […]
Read MoreThe National Board of Revenue has taken an initiative to impose surcharge at the rate of one per cent on mobile phone services including talk time to boost revenue collection from the sector, officials said. They said that the proposed surcharge would be named ‘development surcharge’. The revenue to be collected from the sector will […]
Read MoreBangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been banned for six months by the Bangladesh Cricket Board because of a “severe attitude problem”. The 27-year-old was punished for “serious misbehaviour” towards new coach Chandika Hathurusingha, reports BBC. “There will be no compromise when it comes to discipline” Nazmul Hassan Bangladesh cricket chief BCB president Nazmul Hassan […]
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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, […]
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