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Cyclone Roanu: one month on, thousands in Bangladesh remain in need of urgent help-IFRC

DHAKA, June 20 (NsNewsWire) — One month after Cyclone Roanu struck Bangladesh, leaving at least 20 people dead and hundreds of others injured, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is warning that thousands remain in need of urgent help as the monsoon season hits. In a statement received here on […]

Bangladesh Signs $130 Million World Bank Loan for Economic Zones

DHAKA, June 19 (NsNewsWire) — The government of Bangladesh today signed a $130 million additional financing agreement with the World Bank to scale up support for the recently licensed and new economic zones to attract foreign and domestic investment as well as to create more jobs in the manufacturing sector. The additional financing to the […]

Huge arms cache recovered in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka

DHAKA, June 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi police recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a channel on Saturday in capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua At least 108 pistols, 1,000 bullets, 189 magazines and 10 bayonets from the canal in Uttara of northern part of Dhaka were recovered, a Dhaka Metropolitan Police official said. The […]

Outgoing Egyptian Ambassador calls on Foreign Minister

DHAKA, June 14 (NsNewsWire) — The outgoing Egyptian Ambassador in Bangladesh and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Dhaka Mahmoud Ezzat made a farewell call on Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali MP this morning in the Foreign Ministry. The Egyptian Ambassador expressed his thanks and appreciation for extending all support to him in […]

Telenor appoints New CEOs in Bulgaria and Pakistan

Fornebu, June 14 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group has today appointed Michael Foley as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Telenor Bulgaria and Irfan Wahab Khan as CEO of Telenor Pakistan. The new appointments will be effective from 1 August 2016, and both Foley and Khan will be members of the Group Executive Management team. “I am […]

Child laborers in Bangladesh: victims of poverty

by Naim-Ul-Karim Nahid Hossain Babu, a boy with 10 years old at best has been working in a tiny workshop named “Japani Metal” at Jinjira in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka for one year. He works 12 hours a day to make metal components, earing 1,600 taka (about 21 U.S. dollars) a […]

Chinese FM’s Remarks At the Media Briefing on G20 Hangzhou Summit

DHAKA, June 12 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of the Remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi At the Media Briefing on the recently held G20 Hangzhou Summit: “Dear Guests, Friends from the Press, Good morning! Today is 26 May, and tomorrow will mark the 100-day countdown of the G20 […]

Bangladesh making transformational shift to digital procurement Over 55,000 tenders valued US$5.8 billion done in e-GP

DHAKA, June 9 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh is making transformational shift to its public procurement environment with exponential growth of electronic government procurement, known as e-GP, covering four key government agencies: Roads and Highways Department, Local Government Engineering Department, Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board, and Bangladesh Water Development Board. These agencies together spend about half the country’s […]

Symphony Mobile unveiled the Finger Print Security enabled Smartphone

DHAKA, June 9 (NsNewsWire) — The leading brand of Bangladesh, Symphony unveiled their new HD series Smartphone H400. H400, the first phone of Symphony which has Finger Print Security Technology. Finger print security sensor helps Smartphone users to quick lock & unlock. The handset contains 2.5 D curved glass with 5 inch HD IPS Display […]