Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament said that her government has a mega-city plan to expand the areas of Dhaka city, reports The Daily Star Hasina also said her government had taken massive initiatives to digitise land survey records in efforts to build modern land administration. The government is seriously considering giving approval to ... Read more
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StanChart participates in ‘Last Hour Campaign’
Staff of Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh participated in the “Last Hour Campaign” that was launched by the banking group across its markets. This is a voluntary campaign where the staff donated their last hour’s worth of salary in 2009 to Seeing is Believing (SIB), a sustainability initiative that helps to restore sights of visually impaired ... Read more
ZOOM Laptop Fair starts tomorrow
DHAKAMIRROR.COM Three-day ZOOM Laptop Fair- 2010 will be held tomorrow at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, organized by Maker Communication. Mobile phone operator Citycell is the title sponsor of the fair while, Acer, Asus, HP and Lenevo are the co-sponsors. Bdjobs.com is the online partner, radio ABC is the radio partner and bdnews24.com is the news
Govt moves to open VoIP
Cabinet decides to issue more licences to stop its illegal use The government has decided in principle to issue more VoIP licences for handling international calls to trigger a price war and bring illegal VoIP operators under a legal framework. As per an amended policy, illegal VoIP (voice over internet protocol) operators will get a ... Read more
Airtel brand eyes Bangladesh mobile market
Dhakamiror.com India’s largest wireless service provider, Bharti Airtel is set to introduce its acclaim ‘Airtel’ brand in Bangladesh after acquiring a majority (70 percent) stake in Warid Telecom, the fourth largest player in the country out of six. Before eying Bangladeshi telecom market Bharti Airtel launched its 2G and 3G service in Sri Lanka one ... Read more
South Korea likely to recruit 4000 Bangladeshis this year
South Korea is expected to recruit 4,000 Bangladeshi workers, as economy of the giant Asian country is coming out of recession, said Ambassador Suk Bum Park while talking to some journalists in the city on Thursday, reports The News Today According to the Korea Development Institute (KDI), the growth of outlook for 2010 topped a ... Read more
Malaysian firm gets MRP job
Purchase body okays bid; project to be delayed by 2 months The cabinet committee on government purchase yesterday gave final approval to awarding the machine-readable passport and visa project to Malaysia-based IRIS Corporation Berhad with just two and a half months’ time to meet an international deadline for introduction of
More chiller on way as mercury dips to 3yr low
As another cold wave grips most parts of the country, the lowest winter temperature in three years was recorded yesterday in Srimangal. The Met Office recorded a low of five degrees, which was just one degree higher than the previous record set in 2007, also in Srimangal. Assistant Meteorologist at the Met Office Md Shahidul ... Read more
Kaya skin clinic in dhaka
Marico Bangladesh Ltd, a subsidiary of Marico Ltd. is going to open first Kaya Skin Clinic in Bangladesh at Gulshan in Dhaka. The company is set to start it’s commercial operation on January 18. Parachute, the flagship brand of the $477 million worth Marico, now controls majority stake in Bangladesh’s about Taka three billion ($50 ... Read more
Drive on with discharge sources still active
Removal of each kilogram of Buriganga garbage costs Tk 833 The ongoing cleansing drive in the River Buriganga might prove costly for taxpayers as the authorities failed to shut down active polluting sources which are still discharging 25,000 tonnes of untreated wastes and 40,000 tonnes of toxic chemicals into the river every day, reports NewAge. ... Read more
Insurance business turnover exceeds Tk 6,000 crore
The country’s insurance companies performed well last year beating back the anticipated impact of global economic recession as business returned to normalcy under the new democratic government, reports BSS. Insurance business turnover surpassed Taka 6,000 crore last year with life insurance alone having a record of Taka 5,000 crore deals. Its growth rate stood at ... Read more
Corporate Briefs
ICB ISLAMIC MUTUAL FUND At the close of operation on January 5, the fund declared NAV of Tk 293.61 per unit on the basis of current market price and Tk 222.01 on the basis of cost price against face value of Tk 100. The total net assets of the fund stood at Tk 29.36 crore ... Read more
BTCL gets speed from rural links
State-run landline operator BTCL added more than one lakh customers in the three months after it announced free connections at upazila levels in July 2009. The company subscriber base reached close to 10 lakh at the end of September 2009, according to Bangladesh Telecommunications Company data. With the addition of new customers, BTCL had 9.72 ... Read more
GP partners with govt to observe18th NID
Grameenphone Ltd. has partnered again with the Bangladesh government in the government’s efforts to eradicate the re-emergence of polio in Bangladesh through National Immunization Day (NID) awareness building campaign. The NID has been organized to immunize 24 million children in Bangladesh under the age of five. Grameenphone was also partner of the mass awareness campaign ... Read more
Tourism master plans under way for Cox’s Bazar, Kuakata
Minister for civil aviation and tourism GM Qader Sunday said the government was preparing two separate master plans for Cox’s Bazar and Kuakata to develop the places as highly attractive tourist spots with global standard, reports BSS. The minister presided over a inter-ministerial meeting to review the progress of preparing master plans for the two ... Read more
Oust land grabbers
Minister asks developers’ association, questions their sources of money, slates filling up of water bodies State Minister for Housing Abdul Mannan Khan yesterday came down hard on land developers and realtors, and asked them to rid their associations of the land grabbers. “You say you have invested over Tk 70,000 crore in the housing sector. ... Read more
Big blaze at BRDB Bhaban in city
The Bangladesh Rural Development Board Bhaban went up in flames yesterday burning into ashes the storeroom in its basement in capital’s Karwan Bazar. Seven fire fighting units rushed to the spot and managed to douse the fire two hours after the incident around 4:00pm. The firemen also rescued three people who were trapped on the ... Read more
Buriganga still a garbage dump
Whither river cleaning drive? Though the government has initiated a drive to clean the Buriganga river, people living on its banks opine that the drive would be futile unless the practice of dumping waste materials into the river is stopped. The local people told The Independent yesterday that the government should take strong steps against ... Read more
Work hard to save people in distress
Centenarian Binod Bihari calls upon youths Binod Bihari Chowdhury, the anti-British movement veteran who stepped on the 100th year of his life yesterday, called upon the young generation to become brave hearted and work for the distressed countrymen overcoming cowardice, weakness and selfishness. “Courage is divine while cowardice and weakness are nothing but sin,” he ... Read more
Halda in death throes, losing fish resources
From The News Today The Halda River in Chittagong, considered as the major source of Indian carps, is going to lose its fish resources over the next two decades due to intrusion of saline water apprehended to be caused by sea-level rise, reports UNB. “The Halda River will lose its sweet water flow eventually damaging ... Read more