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DHAKA, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Over 170,000 low-income households in rural Bangladesh will have access to hygienic sanitation under the Output-Based Aid (OBA) Sanitation Microfinance Program. The World Bank, in partnership with the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), is supporting this program with a $3 million grant from the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group has unveiled its first Global Impact Report quantifying the socioeconomic impact of the Group’s contributions in 13 markets across the world, including six in Asia with Bangladesh being one of its major Asian markets. Developed by KPMG, the report launched recently, includes a detailed study of the socioeconomic […]
Read MoreBangladesh will be taking a step backwards in efforts to end child marriage if parliament approves changes to a law that would permit girls below 18 to be married in “special cases”, a global alliance of charities said last week, reports the guardian. The nation has one of the highest rates of child marriage in […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan. 15 (NsNewsWire)– For the first time, visitors of the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) will able to Buy DITF tickets online, thorough Shohoz.com, an online based ticketing platform for Bus/Launch tickets. According to the partnership with DITF Ticketing Partner, M/S Meer Brothers, and Shohoz.com is the first online and exclusive partner to get […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan.15 (NsNewsWire)– IPDC Finance Limited, the first financial institution of Bangladesh and Concito PR has signed an agreement recently where concito PR has been selected as the exclusive Public Relation agency for IPDC Finance Limited. The agreement was signed at the IPDC head office in Gulshan Avenue. Mominul Islam, MD & CEO of IPDC […]
Read MoreFornebu, Jan. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group has announced a change to its organisational structure and its executive management team in order to transition into a more integrated global company and to deliver on its digital strategy. The changes will be effective from 1 March 2017. “In 2015, we included the business unit CEOs into […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan. 11 (NsNewsWire)— Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate moderately to 2.7 percent in 2017 after a post-crisis low last year as obstacles to activity recede among emerging market and developing economy commodity exporters, while domestic demand remains solid among emerging and developing commodity importers, the World Bank said in a report released […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan.10 (NsNewsWire)–Samsung Electronics, the global leader in consumer electronics has announced the winners of the photography contest- ‘This is Bangladesh”. The purpose of the competition was to portray Bangladesh positively with picturesque photographs in digital media and recognize amateur photographers who captured the photos. Each winner has received a 32” Samsung TV as reward […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday arrested 10 members of a banned militant outfit in capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua . A RAB spokesperson who did not like to be named said the militants are the members of Neo-JMB (an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul […]
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