DHAKA, July 31 (NsNewsWire) — Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is in China from July 27 to August 1st 2019. On his second leg of the trip, the Caixin Media Group organized a breakfast meeting by where the Nobel Laureate addressed the topic of financial inclusion. Around 70 CEOs and founders of financial institutions, university […]

Dhaka/Kuala Lumpur/Geneva, 31 July 2019 – Continued heavy rainfalls in Bangladesh combined with severe flooding in neighbouring countries have led to the highest river water levels in a century putting 7.6 million people at risk of hunger and disease.   Floods have left hundreds of thousands stranded in northern and north-eastern parts of the country […]

DHAKA, July 30 (Xinhua) — The situation of dengue has deteriorated in Bangladesh as the mosquito-borne viral disease spread out in most parts of the country in less than a month. A total of 1,096 fresh cases of dengue were reported from the capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country in the last 24 hours […]

DHAKA, July 30 (NsNewsWire) — Qatar Airways and its freight subsidiary Qatar Airways Cargo supported Qatar Red Crescent and its Little Hearts mission to perform 100 heart surgeries over eight days for critically-ill children in Bangladesh from 20 to 28 July 2019. The award-winning airline has assisted the Little Hearts Mission by air freighting medical […]

DHAKA, July 29 (NsNewsWire) — The following is a joint press statement from the United Nations Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and the We Mean Business  coalition which was released here Monday: Twenty-eight companies with a total market capitalization of $1.3 trillion are stepping up to set a new level of climate […]

DHAKA, July 29 (NsNewsWire) — Dr. Humnath Bhandari, Representative of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Bangladesh has presented his credentials to Foreign Minister Dr. A. K. Abdul Momen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 28 July 2019. In accepting the credentials of the Representative of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the […]

Dhaka, July 28 (NsNewsWire) —  Robi Axiata Limited and Beximco Communications Limited have recently signed a strategic partnership agreement. This agreement has paved the way for both the companies to collaborate for the promotion of Beximco Communication’s recently launched flagship DTH brand, AKASH. Robi’s Managing Director and CEO, Mahtab Uddin Ahmed and Beximco Communications Limited’s […]

DHAKA, July 28 (Xinhua) — A seminar titled “The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the New International Economic Order” was held in Bangladesh with focus on strategies through which the country can reap optimum benefits from the global development initiative. Workers’ Party of Bangladesh, an ally of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami […]

DHAKA, July 27 (NsNewsWire) — To create awareness about the newly implemented VAT and Supplementary Duty Act-2012, Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) organized a workshop on “Awareness Raising on Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act-2012” at CIRDAP Auditorium on 27 July, 2019. Chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, NDC […]