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Mobile handset giant Nokia organised an advocacy meeting in Khulna city yesterday as part of its countrywide campaign — ‘Avijan’. Begum Mannujan Sufian, state minister for labour and employment, was present as chief guest at the event. The Avijan campaign, launched on October 18 this year, aims at spreading knowledge among the new generation about ... Read more

AKTEL, the third largest mobile operator, recorded profits worth Tk 147 million at the end of September, rising from a loss of Tk 737 million in the same period last year. However, the company recorded a loss of Tk 472 million in the third quarter (July-September) compared to the second quarter (April -June) this year. ... Read more

Samsung Electronics plans to invest around 7 trillion won ($6.05 billion) in its semiconductor business next year – 5 trillion won in DRAM and 2 trillion won in NAND flash memory and system LSI, an industry source told The Korea Herald. The world’s top memory chip maker’s investment plan is a 75 percent jump from ... Read more

Marico Bangladesh Ltd has informed the stock exchanges that the board of directors of the company has decided to disclose the setting up of first Kaya Skin Clinic in Bangladesh at Gulshan in Dhaka. Kaya Skin Clinic is the centre offering dermatology led cosmetic skin care solutions in India and the Middle East, according to

Leather industry people are seen happy this year with increased supply of rawhides at lower prices from the sacrificed animals in Eid-ul-Azha. They estimate that this year the supply would be increased by at least 10 per cent. In the past around 40 per cent of the country’s annual rawhide stocks came from sacrificed animals. ... Read more

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will complete the tasks for introducing an online tax payment system within next month to streamline the existing tax return submission procedure, said the chairman of the board yesterday. “We have already signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to initiate the online tax ... Read more

State-owned BTCL has hit the doldrums, unable to provide new land phone connections in most metropolitan areas including Dhaka, but still has lofty plans. There are ten private sector operators providing land phone services across the country apart from BTCL. Together, the state-run and private companies provide just 1,571,748 land phone connections across a country ... Read more

Ahead of beginning of the sugarcane crushing season, the government is worried about the availability of sugarcane to run the 15 state-owned sugar mills. The Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation has announced that sugarcane crushing at the government-owned mills would begin on November 13. The season will be inaugurated on the day at the ... Read more

Telephone Shilpa Sangstha Limited (TSS), the state-run telephone equipment manufacturer, is set to go under an automated production system by December, eyeing production of more than a thousand landline sets a day. “An automated system by the year-end will enable our company to make telecom equipment,” TSS Managing Director Mohammad Ismail told The Daily Star. ... Read more

Bangladesh’s mobile penetration rate stood at 28 percent in 2008 lagging behind war-ravaged Afghanistan’s 29 percent in South Asia, according to a regional report. “Of course, the fact that Afghanistan is ahead of Bangladesh in mobile penetration should cause all sorts of palpitations in government offices in Dhaka,” said the report tilted ‘Telecom Access Rankings ... Read more

A three-day British fusion food festival — Taste of Britain Curry Fest — is set to start at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel today, which will present the culinary success of British Bangladeshis in the UK. Dhaka Sheraton Hotel and Curry Life, a British magazine on UK’s fusion food industry, are co-organising the festival. GM Quader, civil ... Read more

From The New Nation Bangladesh real estate sector has rebounded and is expected to achieve an impressive growth of 15 per cent in 2010 thanks to the government’s supportive policy for helping recover the sector even amid global recession. To boost the sluggish business hit by global meltdown and political turmoil, developers have taken a move ... Read more

From The Daily Star The government has moved to expand the runway of Cox’s Bazar airport, aiming to upgrade it to international standards and offer foreign holidaymakers a hassle-free trip to the world’s longest unbroken sea beach. “We have taken steps to expand the runway at Cox’s Bazar airport and develop other facilities,” GM Quader, ... Read more

From The New Nation Another brand of CFC-fee inhaler, manufactured by Beximco Pharma hit the market while international Ozone phase-out bodies seen it as a great private-public stride to phase out use of ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Bangladesh as a signatory to Montreal Protocol, need to phase out use of all CFCs by December this ... Read more

Chain superstore Agora celebrated its 8th anniversary through different programmes in the Dhaka city on Saturday. Rahiamafrooz Group chairman Afrooz Rahim, and Firoz Rahim, the group’s managing director and chairman of Rahimafrooz Superstores Limited, operating company of Agora, inaugurated the anniversary celebration programme at the superstore’s Rifle Square outlet in Dhaka, said a

Building Technology and Ideas Ltd organised a day-long ‘Apartment Fair’ at Uttara in Dhaka on Friday as part of its promotional campaign. The fair was a part of the company’s promotional activities and the company will arrange such programme at different areas of the Dhaka and Chittagong cities, said a new release. The company distributed ... Read more

From NewAgebd Despite slow growth in exports of fresh vegetables and fruits, businessmen of these sectors are hopeful about the potentials. They, however, want government’s help in establishing a modern processing centre with testing, sorting and packaging facilities and an efficient and hassle-free airport services. Businessmen believe that such centre would help them in exporting ... Read more

From NewAgebd South Korea will recruit more Bangladeshi workers from next year as the country is recovering from the economic crisis, a government official has said. Syed Nasir Ershad, first secretary to the Bangladesh Embassy in Seoul, said Thursday that frequent change in work places by some workers had tarnished the positive image of Bangladeshis ... Read more

From The New Nation Being monotonous with the deen and bustle of the busy city life, random botheration of sound pollution, fusion and busyness; sometimes inside your hidden mind you will feel going over vacation elsewhere, where there will be no artificial touch; rather fresh and open air, natural environment and scenic surrounding. As per ... Read more

From The Daily Star Augere Wireless Broadband Bangladesh Ltd yesterday launched the much-waited wireless broadband service through WiMax in some designated areas in Dhaka. Augere, one of the two WiMax licensees, is the first company in Bangladesh to launch such service under the brand name ‘Qubee’. Augere is initially offering two packages. Customer will have ... Read more