bKash signs agreement with Shohoz Rides

    UNB: obile financial service, bKash Limited signed an agreement with the app-based ride sharing company Shohoz Rides, to facilitate its passengers and drivers to make and receive payments by bKash. It also said the customers can make their ride payment through bKash from Shohoz Rides app only in three steps. The steps include selecting bKash…

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      University short film festival to feature new category on refugees

      Desk Report: The 10th International Inter University Short Film Festival has introduced a new category titled “Short Film on Refugee” this year with a call to submit short films on refugees, reports Daily Sun. 10th International Inter-University Short Film Festival- 2018” organised by Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) in association with United Nations High Commissioner…

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        Bangladeshis among thousands of foreigners get UAE visa amnesty

        AFP: The United Arab Emirates launched a three-month visa amnesty program, hoping to resolve a Catch-22 for foreign workers who are fined daily for overstaying their permits but prevented from leaving until they pay the penalties. The government isn’t releasing specific numbers, but said it expects “thousands” of people, primarily labourers from countries like Bangladesh,…

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          Mithila appearing in Eid tele-dramas

          Asian Age: Popular model-actress Mithila is rarely seen in any tele-drama and telefilm nowadays without any special occasion. Due to work pressure, the actress can’t manage time for regular projects. For the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, the actress has acted in four tele-dramas under the same director. The four tele-dramas are ‘Long Drive’, ‘Tumi Kinba Ghashful’, ‘Bashpo…

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            Bangladesh, IFAD to invest $109 mn to increase incomes of rural households

            UNB: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bangladesh signed a financing agreement to significantly increase incomes and food and nutrition security for 250,000 rural households in southern Bangladesh where the highest percentage of rural poor reside. The agreement for the Smallholder Agricultural Competitiveness Project (SACP) was signed by Gilbert F Houngbo, President of…

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              Nafisa becomes grand champ in Aloha contest

              Asian Age: Nafisa Azad (Nuzhat) became Grand Champion this year in the Mental Arithmetic International Competition 2018 (ALOHA) held at World Trade Centre, Moskva in Russia recently. She is daughter of AK Azad and Ishrat Jahan of 301/A, Free School Street, Sonargaon Road, Dhaka-1205. Nafisa is a student of Viqarunnisa Noon School & College.

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                China to speed up industrialization in Bangladesh

                Asian Age: China has assured that it would continue support to Bangladesh for accelerating the country’s knowledge-based industrialization. The commitment came when Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Zhang Zuo met Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu at the Industries Ministry,an official release said. During the meeting, they discussed various bilateral issues, including Chinese investment, technology transfer and…

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                  The village of bamboo handicrafts

                  Desk Report: Almost all the 320 families at Parshuram village of Chandrapur union in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila earn their livelihood by making and selling bamboo made things, especially fishing tools, reports Daily Star. They earn well when there is high demand of indigenous fishing tools like darki, bana and teprai during the rains from June…

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                    Cattle smuggling continues in Sylhet

                    Asian Age: Cattle smuggling ahead of Eid-ul-Azha through the border areas in Sylhet and Sunamganj has continued, in spite of recurring drives by different law enforcement agencies, especially Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). Syndicates of cattle smugglers bring cattle through border points in different upazilas of the district from neighboring India, and those are supplied to…

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                      Mehazabien to appear in ‘Ogo Bodhu Shundori’

                      The Independent, BD: Popular model-actress Mehazabien Chowdhury, who is nowadays immensely admired for her enthralling performance on the small screen, is in yet another project based on an amazing story. The actress is currently acting in an Eid-special tele-drama titled ‘Ogo Bodhu Shundori’ under the direction of well-known director Himel Ashraf. The title of the…

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