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Jun122022 by Rezaur Rahman RizviNo Comments

Rakuten Viber and Mineski Global boost the fun with the launch of the mgames chatbot on Viber

Rakuten Viber, in partnership with Mineski Global, has recently introduced the ‘mgames chatbot’ consisting of exciting and easy-to-play games to bring hyper-casual gaming to a whole new level. Viber users across the Asia Pacific will now have free and easy access to 70 hyper-casual games through the mgames chatbot on the platform, with new games to be introduced every month. mgames is a casual gaming platform created by Mineski Global, offering an extensive range of games that are easy to play and navigate in terms of game mechanics and design. “We are excited about our collaboration with Mineski Global in integrating hyper-casual games into our platform for different segments of users,” says David Tse, Senior Director, Rakuten Viber. “We are not just launching games in Viber, we...

Jun112022 by News DeskNo Comments

24 teams and Three Individuals Come Out as Winner in RUET CSE Fest 2K22

Breaking News, Education

RUET CSE Fest 2K22 names a bunch of winners of this ICT-based competition. An announcement event and award ceremony event have recently been organized at the RUET campus with the presence of renowned academics from different universities. Prof. Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam Sheikh, Vice-Chancellor of RUET, graced the event as the Chief Guest and Prof. Dr. Md. Al Mamun, Head of Department of CSE, RUET as Organizing Chair. Besides, Prof. Dr. Md. Shahid Uz Zaman, Prof. Dr. Boshir Ahmed from RUET CSE department, and Shahriar Manzoor, Associate Professor of Southeast University were present as Special Guests. Md. Taufiqur Rahman, Senior Manager, Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited joined Huawei, the technology partner of this event. RUET CSE Fest, one of the biggest tech carnivals for the ...

Jun112022 by News DeskNo Comments

ActionAid Bangladesh’s 2-days long festival on resilience

Breaking News, National

To celebrate the resilience of communities of Bangladesh and the country’s glorious heritage, culture, and traditions, ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) organized a 2-days long festival, titled ‘Festival of Resilience: People, Planet and Possibilities.’ Centering around the strength of Bangladesh’s people to strive and rise against all odds, the festival aims to encourage celebration and participation among communities in recognition of their stories of resilience. The festival took place on 9 and 10 June 2022 at Dhaka’s “NCC” (Naveed’s Comedy Club) in Gulshan 2. For decades, the people of Bangladesh have faced countless challenges, such as climate and human-induced disasters, inequalities, economic instability, refugee crisis and pandemic. But every time, the mass bounced back with the pow...

Jun92022 by News DeskNo Comments

Proposed Budget to Decrease Tobacco Products’ Real Prices and Hike Use among the Poor and the Youth

Breaking News, National

The proposed budget, if finally adopted and realized, will increase the use of tobacco products among the poor and the youth. It will hike health expenditure and deprive the government of additional revenue. The proposed budget for FY 2022-23 failed to take into account any of the demands raised by anti-tobacco organizations, and is in grave conflict with the Honorable Prime Minister's vision for a tobacco-free Bangladesh. The proposed budget raises the price for 10 sticks of low-tier cigarettes by only Tk. 1, setting the price at Tk. 40. It shows only a 2.56 percent increase in this tier. Such an increase is negligible considering the fact that the National Per Capita Income (Nominal) has increased by nearly 10 percent. As a result of this budgetary measure, the real price of cigarett...

Jun72022 by News DeskNo Comments

Ensure Safe Food to Reduce Hypertension Risk: Speakers at World Food Safety Day Webinar

Breaking News, National

The World Food Safety Day 2022 is being observed with the theme - “Safer food, better health”. The day is of great importance for Bangladesh as consumption of unsafe food is leading to exponential rise in prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and related mortality in the country. Speakers expressed the importance of safe food for tackling NCDs like hypertension and cardiovascular diseases at a webinar marking World Food Safety Day today on Tuesday, 07 June 2022 organized by research and advocacy organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) with the support from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI). It was informed at the webinar that, one in every five (21%) adults in Bangladesh are suffering from hypertension at present and intake of unsafe food is greatly responsible f...

Jun72022 by News DeskNo Comments

Meet representatives from top universities for higher studies

Breaking News, Education

Study Group, an international education provider, is set to host a University Fair at Westin Dhaka located in the capital on June 10, 2022. The event featuring six top universities and aimed at providing comprehensive information to aspiring students willing to study abroad will start at 10:30 AM and will continue till 6:30 PM. In the event, students who are looking to go abroad for their higher studies can seek information or solution regarding any doubt they may have directly from their desired institutions. Study Group has geared up to host a University Fair, which is to be attended by Florida Atlantic University, James Madison University, Long Island University, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, the University of Hartford and Western University. Srini Bandara, Regional Dir...

Jun72022 by News DeskNo Comments

Huawei partners with GOLDEN HARVEST to build a cloud-based, fully connected smart Bangladesh

Breaking News, Business

Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited and Golden Harvest will work together in Bangladesh to help every industry in achieving higher business growth and significantly reduce operation costs. An agreement between these two parties has been signed this week at the head office of Huawei Bangladesh in Gulshan, Dhaka. Abdul Huque, Director, Golden Harvest and Alex Li, Director, Huawei Bangladesh have signed the agreement on behalf of their organization. Abuzer Ghaffari FCA, Operations Director & CFO, Golden Harvest; Md Shajahan Ahmed, Manager, Cloud Business, Huawei Bangladesh and others from both of these entities were present at the ceremony. Under the agreement, Golden Harvest Info Tech, a wing of Golden Harvest, will be providing cloud solutions, Software as a Service (SaaS) an...

Jun72022 by News DeskNo Comments

realme brings night photo contest for photography lovers inspired by realme 9 4G

Breaking News, Technology

Youth-favourite brand realme came up with a night photo contest, where participants could share night photos taken on their phones, to portray the beauty and peacefulness of nighttime. The contest was kicked off after the launch of realme 9 4G and continued till June 2, 2022. The names of the winners will be announced in June 2022. Youngsters with an avid interest in photography captured memorable moments around different hot spots of Bangladesh, and shared them in the comment section under the contest’s post, on realme’s page. This initiative is aimed at helping the youth unleash their creativity through night photography. The contest has been promoted by popular youth influencers including Raef Al Hasan Rafa, Salman Muqtadir and Habiba Akter Shurovy. This newest addition to realme’...

Jun72022 by News DeskNo Comments

Yunus Warns About the Disaster Path of Present Civilization- “Urges to Build a New Civilization”

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Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited as a keynote speaker at the Trento Festival of Economics on June 4 in Trento, Italy. The conference held over four days focused on Social entrepreneurship for sustainable economic development. Eight Nobel Laureates, more than 75 academic speakers, 20 of the most important international and national economists, 26 representatives of the most important European and national institutions and 11 Italian Ministers participated in this annual event of national interest. The festival is organized by the 24 ORE Group and Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento, with the contribution of the Municipality and the University of Trento. Organizers and participants agreed that the highlight of the second day's deliberat...

Jun62022 by News DeskNo Comments

It’s Humanity Foundation (IHF) is celebrating 12 years of changing lives

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On 4 June 2022, It’s Humanity Foundation (IHF) celebrated its 12th year anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, the organization arranged a get-together event with all of their partners, stakeholders, former and current team members and well-wishers on the day at their head office situated in Mohakhali DOHS. All of the 8 schools for children from marginalized communities run by the organization also celebrated with cake cutting ceremonies with all the students and teachers. The organization is grateful to all of its supporters, partners, and well-wishers. These impactful years of reaching new horizons and changing lives would have never been possible without their support and encouragement. The small get-together event was inaugurated by Md. Adnan Hossain, Founder and Chairman of ...