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Grameenphone , BRAC Bank Launch Joint Campaign

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone Ltd. and BRAC Bank have jointly launched a new promotion program through which a comprehensive suite of Retail Banking services will be offered to GP STAR Customers at very attractive rates. On regular Home/Salary/Auto/Doctor’s loan, 0.50% less interest rate & 0.50% processing fee from the existing rates at BRAC […]

GP’s online shopping platform GP Shop to ensure reliability

Dhaka, Aug. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone has launched an online e-Commerce shop named GP Shop, for customers to buy latest smartphones, wearable gadgets, and modems with exclusive offers, on August 23, 2016 at a local hotel. This is the first e-Commerce site by a mobile operator in Bangladesh. Through the GP online shop any customer […]

Earthquake jolts Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 23 (NsNewsWire) — People in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and elsewhere got panicked by an earthquake which jolted neighboring Myanmar and parts of the region Tuesday morning. A meteorologist of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) told Xinhua that the epicenter of the earthquake of 5.3 magnitude was located in Myanmar and the distance of […]

Robi helps subscribers redefine life with ACE

DHAKA, Aug. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Not everyone in the society is happy to let destiny take control of their life. The courageous and adventurous among us don’t shy away from challenging the accepted norms of the society in order to make their life more rewarding and meaningful. However, it involves a tremendous amount of self-belief […]

Telenor supports Norwegian entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence research

Oslo/Arendal, Norway, Aug. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group has announced two specific initiatives to support entrepreneurship and competence building in Norway. The ambition is to strengthen the nation’s competitiveness and to stimulate job creation by Norwegian startups. In collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the leading research institute SINTEF, Telenor […]

China launches first-ever quantum communication satellite

IUQUAN, Aug. 17 (NsNewsWire) — China successfully launched the world’s first quantum satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gobi Desert at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday, reports Xinhua. In a cloud of smoke, the satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), roared into the dark sky on top of a Long March-2D rocket. […]

Bangladesh police provides cash assistance to families of policemen killed in terror attacks

DHAKA, Aug. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Police has provided 7- million taka cash assistance to the families of four policemen who were killed in terror attacks last month. Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque Wednesday in a program in Dhaka handed over cash money cheques to family of each terror attack victim law enforcers, […]

Telenor Group CEO Sigve Brekke visited Dhaka

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group CEO, Sigve Brekke, was in Dhaka on Monday August 8, 2016 on a short trip to Grameenphone. The Telenor Group CEO conducted several internal meetings at GPHouse, the Grameenphone headquarters, at Bashundhara. He visited the new innovation centre, set up at the GP corporate head office and held […]

Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscriber number falls to 131.376 mln

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — A latest report of Bangladesh’s telecom regulator has reveals the country’s mobile phone subscriber numbers have fallen to 131.376 million in June, down some 3 million from December last year, reports Xinhua. Statistics of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) showed Tuesday that the number of subscribers of the six […]