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Dhaka, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The country’s leading digital services provider Robi Axiata Limited and Sharif Pharmaceuticals, a sister concern of Sharif Group, have recently signed a corporate agreement. Under this agreement, Sharif Pharmaceuticals will be able to enjoy corporate connections from the Robi Axiata Ltd. Robi will also support Sharif Pharmaceuticals to automate their […]
Read MoreA 48 hours long Hackathon titled “CTO Forum Innovation Hackathon-2020”kicked off today with an opening ceremony which took place online due to thecurrent pandemic situation. The Hackathon will run till 7:00 pm of 26 December,2020.Mr. Shyam Sunder Sikder, Chairman of Bangladesh TelecommunicationRegulatory Commission joined as chief guest and Mr. Md. Nazrul Islam Khan,Curator at Bangabandhu […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) –Nagad, the flagship payments platform of the Bangladeshi government, has recorded over two billion taka daily transactions, a milestone that highlights the faster adoption of the digital financial service in the country. Tanvir A Mishuk, managing director of Nagad, made the announcement at a ceremony in capital Dhaka on Thursday. According […]
Read MoreTo help Bangladesh respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a USD100-million loan which will enable the Government of Bangladesh to ramp up its testing, tracing and treatment capacity and improve the longer-term pandemic preparedness of the country. Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Read MoreAustralian High Commissioner Jeremy Bruer has handed over a consignment of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Lieutenant General Md Mahfuzur Rahman, OSP, rcds, ndc, afwc, psc, PhD, the Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division. Five tonnes of PPE, consisting of 12,000 high quality coveralls and 200,000 gloves, was provided under the Defence Cooperation […]
Read MoreChina has demonstrated its excellent capability of running the economy smoothly, a leading Bangladeshi economist has said, noting that the country has maintained steady gross domestic product growth, transformed its financial management, banking system and capital market, and attracted foreign direct investment from developed countries by establishing itself as a global manufacturing hub. by Naim-Ul-Karim […]
Read MoreBangladesh needs to quickly design and roll out policy actions and reforms on long-standing issues holding back private investment in order to effectively address the unfolding impact of COVID-led economic shocks. Identification of new opportunities that COVID presents, aligning critical reforms with country’s formal development strategies, actively exploring new investment sources such as from those […]
Read MoreMassachusetts, USA—A resilience scorecard developed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and Concern Worldwide in 2019 found that most households in Sharonkhola and Mongla upazilas in Bagerhat District, Bangladesh were inadequately prepared for and would have difficulty recovering from the impacts of disasters. Among the 462 heads of households who were surveyed in the two disaster prone upazilas or sub-districts, most […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 9 (Xinhua) — Mobile phone subscribers in Bangladesh declined to nearly 161.506 million at the end of May, down over 4.5 million from February, a report said on Thursday. Statistics of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) showed that the number of subscribers of the mobile operators — Grameenphone, Robi Axiata, Banglalink and […]
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