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Animes comes back to Coke Studio Bangla Season 2

Coke Studio Bangla will be releasing the third song of season 2 on 18 March 2023 featuring Animes Roy, the Hajong rockstar. Animes Roy, who made his debut in season 1 opener Nasek Nasek will be performing in an original track. The song is inspired from Animes’s life which focuses around not bowing down to societal expectations rather staying true to his roots and love for music. Joining him in this song will be Sohana, popularly known as Daughter of Coastal, the rap artist from Coxs Bazar. This is the first time an artist from the coastal city is performing on Coke Studio Bangla’s platform. This upcoming track is written by Animes Roy and the music is designed by Sayonton Mangsang. Animes Roy became a household name last year with his Nasek Nasek track, which was heard globally, includin...

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Embassy of the People’s Republic of China initiated Smart Classrooms in Chandpur

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Embassy of the People's Republic of China initiated a friendship project for talent development. Under this project Embassy of the People's Republic of China to Bangladesh donated the first Smart classroom with the latest smart education solution from Huawei. As the very first initiative Chandpur Government Technical School and College located at Shologhar, Chandpur has been equipped with advanced learning solution that will allow the teachers and students to have advanced onsite and online teaching and study platforms. An inauguration ceremony for this pilot launch has been organized recently at the said college today with the presence of Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni as the chief guest; and H.E. Yao Wen, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Bangladesh as special guest. Be...

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Winner of realme Fan Fest 2022 announced, wins trip to Thailand

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As part of month-long activities to commemorate its 4th anniversary, youth-favorite brand realme had arranged realme Fan Fest 2022 on August, last year. Besides an array of exciting offers and activities, the occasion came with an exciting opportunity for the fans to win a trip to Thailand. Enamul Hoque won this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by purchasing realme 9Pro+, according to a recent announcement. The winner received a 04 days and 05 nights trip to Bangkok and Pattaya. The fastest growing global smartphone brand realme celebrates fan festival globally each year. The theme for the previous year was ‘Keep it real’. As a part of celebration, realme had arranged ‘realme Fan Fest’ on Daraz where customers enjoyed various offers, including a chance to win a trip to Thailand. The campaig...

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Bangladeshi Young Automechanics Heading for Japan

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Eleven automechanic students, graduated from Japan Automechanic School (JAS) in Dhaka, are all set to leave for Japan to start their career as automechanics. These students of the fifth graduating class of the school are leaving for Japan soon. Two students went from the fourth graduating class. Next graduating class is waiting to send all the graduates. These students received two years of simultaneous training in automechanics and Japanese language by the school established by Japan Automechanic Ltd. (JAL) – a Social Business joint venture created by SK Dream of Japan and Grameen Shikkha, an organization founded by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. The graduation ceremony of the students of the last batch was held at Telecom Bhaban, Mirpur, Dhaka on 14 March 2023. The ceremo...

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Introduce Specific Taxes and Raise Prices of Tobacco Products- PROGGA-ATMA Demand in Pre-Budget Press Conference

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In the upcoming national FY 2023-24 budget, the government must introduce a tier-based specific supplementary duty to raise the prices of cigarettes. Such demand has been voiced by research and advocacy organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) during a pre-budget press conference on tobacco taxation and prices, held today (18 March 2023, Saturday) at the Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah Auditorium of the National Press Club of the Capital. During the press conference, speakers particularly urged the policymakers to hike the retail price of the low-tier cigarettes to BDT 55 from BDT 40 for 10 sticks, followed by BDT 35.75 as specific supplementary duty (65 percent of the final retail price). It was also informed that, compared to other cigarette tier...