BDnews24: Bangladesh Bank has denied motorcycle ride-sharing app Pathao the permission to add payment service ‘Pathao Pay’.This means the users of the service will no more be allowed to recharge their virtual wallet.Those already having money in the wallet will get the services announced by Pathao earlier, according to its CEO and cofounder Hussain Elius….
DOT Desk: Bangladesh’s economy needs to grow at a rate of 8.0 per cent or more in the coming years to absorb the country’s growing labour force, a recent government report has suggested, reports The Financial Express. At the same time, attracting more foreign direct investment along with other forms of foreign resources will be…
Hindustan Times: Ken Griffin is showing how a billionaire goes on a shopping spree. Just days after buying one of the most expensive residential properties in London, the Citadel founder set a US record with the $238 million penthouse at 220 Central Park South. The approximately 24,000 square feet (2,200 square metres) apartment will give…
Abrar Hussain: Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 85, his family said. Sir Vidia, born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including ‘A Bend in the River’ and his masterpiece, ‘A House for Mr Biswas’. His wife, Lady Naipaul, called…
Abrar Hussain: Thirteen people have been killed after separate road accidents in Narsingdi, Sirajganj, Satkhira, Gazipur,Munshiganj, Naogaon, and Sherpur districts of the country yesterday, report BDnews. In Narsingdi, seven people, including two women and a child, were killed after a bus collided with a microbus on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Shibpur upazila around 8:15am. In Sirajganj,…
Sabah Mannan Most folk traditions flourished throughout the country including the capital Dhaka has been dying due to absence of proper care and preservation, reports Somoy TV. In some cases, the allegation is being raised even after taking initiatives for protection of folk traditions. Artisans claim that the loss of interest in…
Desk Report: Save the Children Bangladesh launched a new website-based job platform to help unemployed young men and women to get jobs and trainings considering high unemployment rate in the country, reports New Age. Zunaid said, ‘Save the Children has done a wonderful job in terms of bringing solution to a complicated problem. We can…
Anadolu Agency: The Arab League on Tuesday decried a U.S. decision to close the diplomatic mission of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington, saying the move undermines the Palestinian cause. “Since the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017 and the relocation of its embassy to Jerusalem this May,…
DOT Desk: The classes of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia will resume on Saturday after a 14-day winter vacation holidays, reports The Financial Express. IU Acting Registrar SM Abdul Latif said the academic and administrative activities of the university will restart on the day. The residential halls of the university will also open in the…
Speakers at a consultation called for involvement of non-governmental organizations along with the government for combating human trafficking especially child trafficking. Stressing on giving priority to child protection, they said, it is difficult for the government alone to handle the task. Combined efforts by the government and NGOs would help protect the rights of trafficking…