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realme is Entering the Second Stage of Growth in an Open Letter: Sky Li

Sky Li, founder and CEO of realme, published an open letter titled “realme’s Second Stage of Growth: A Refined Focus on Long-term Growth” while its fourth “828 Fan Festival” will be coming up on August 28th, 2022. In the open letter, Sky Li presents, “realme is now entering its second stage of growth as a startup, and in this next phase of our journey we will further refine our focus on targeted, long-term growth. This means an added focus on product quality and market focus.” With the “Dare to Leap” spirit, realme keeps providing leap-forward performance and trendsetting design at reasonable prices for young people around the world. With the 5G adoption, realme becomes the fastest growing 5G smartphone brand globally in the fourth quarter of 2021 with a 165% YoY growth. realme even pus...

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Delta Brac Housing Finance Corp. Ltd gets new name DBH Finance PLC

Breaking News, Business

The largest housing finance company of the country, Delta Brac Housing Finance Corp. Ltd. has recently changed its name to DBH Finance PLC. In April, 2022 the shareholders gave their consent to change the company's name in a special meeting. Recently Bangladesh Bank gave their approval for this by issuing a circular. In this regard, Managing Director and CEO of the company Nasimul Baten informed that because of the Brand equity of DBH, the new name would give more recognition among the existing and prospective clients. Also, the new name will be more aligned with the future business plans of the company. Since Inception, DBH is continually working towards increasing home ownerships in the country. Currently it has 13 branches in Dhaka, Chattogram, Sylhet, Cumilla, Gazipur, Narayan...

Aug182022 by No Comments

Wasfia Nazreen returns to Bangladesh after creating history

Breaking News, National

Wasfia Nazreen, the first Bangladeshi to have summited the notorious K2 – the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain – has just landed in her motherland. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight departing from Kathmandu, Nepal, has carried the 39-year-old mountaineer home today, on August 17, 2022. She became one of the 40 women or so in history since 1954 to have scaled the most dangerous mountain on the planet. This expedition was solely sponsored by Renata Limited. Shortly after her arrival, a press briefing was held at the Sheraton Dhaka, where Wasfia shared enthralling snippets of her two-month-long expedition to the Karakoram. This is the first time Pakistani authorities have granted a mountaineering and trekking permit to any Bangladeshi. “I had initiated the Seven Summits c...

Aug162022 by No Comments

ULAB and U.S. Embassy Conduct Joint First Aid Training

Breaking News, Education

The United States Pacific Command Augmentation Team (PACOM) conducted a 'Train the Trainer' First Aid Responder seminar for the ULAB staff. Now the ULAB staff understand crucial skills needed to respond to various medical emergencies and will be able to teach the ULAB community these skills to promote a safer environment on campus. Since December, The United States Pacific Command (PACOM) Augmentation Team from the Embassy of the United States of America in Bangladesh has been leading first aid training at ULAB. Through the training ULAB staff learned several life-saving techniques including controlling bleeding, treating burns and snake bites, providing CPR, and much more. As a result of this training, ULAB will have a pool of first aid trainers and responders available on campus at al...

Aug162022 by No Comments

BASIS observes the National Mourning Day

Breaking News, National

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), the national trade body of the ICT sector, has organized a special prayer and discussion meeting on the occasion of the 47th martyrdom anniversary of the Father of the Bengali nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Mr. Mustafa Jabbar was the chief speaker at the prayer and discussion meeting which was held at BASIS Auditorium on Monday, 15 August 2022. The discussion meeting was presided over by BASIS President Mr. Russell T Ahmed, while, Vice President (Admin) Mr. Abu Daud Khan moderated the meeting. The Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mr. Mustafa Jabbar said that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the only leader who could think of an independent Bengali state when none o...

Aug152022 by No Comments

11th Commward 2022 Awards the Most Creative Communications of Bangladesh

Breaking News, Business

Excellence in Creative Communication honored creative campaigns through an auspicious award gala Sa at the Grand Ballroom in Sheraton Dhaka, recently. A flagship initiative of Bangladesh Brand Forum, COMMWARD was presented in association with The Daily Star and in collaboration with Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The award ceremony was attended by more than 700 communication and marketing enthusiasts. The awards were given across 24 categories, in four ranks Bronze, Silver, Gold & Grand Prix. This year, a staggering number of more than 1331 nominations were submitted for the award. The campaigns launched and run during the period of June 01, 2021 to May 31, 2022 were eligible for nomination in COMMWARD 2022. Among these, 40% nominations got shortlisted and 193...

Aug142022 by No Comments

OPPO ColorOS 12 won four design awards at the Red Dot Award

Breaking News, Technology

OPPO ColorOS 12 has won four design awards at the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design Awards for 2022, recognizing the pioneering design of its operations system ColorOS12 with OPPO SANS Fonts, O Relax app, OMOJI, and the Two-Finger Split Screen function. OPPO SANS is a universal typeface designed by OPPO that covers 21 countries with 11 types of language. The visual optimization ranges from the font’s structure to its glyphs. Subtle optimization like simplifying strokes is also making the overall shape of the font more concise and elegant. These updates establish a technology presence and allow it to strengthen its legibility in a variety of screen displays in different products. O Relax is the OPPO's digital wellbeing application that offers comforting music tracks and amb...

Aug132022 by No Comments

National Mourning Day held at Bangladesh University

Breaking News, Education

The National Mourning Day-2022 and the 47th martyrdom anniversary of the Architect of Independence and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were held at the permanent campus of Bangladesh University (BU) at Adabor in Dhaka on August 13, 2022. Mr. R. A. M. Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury, Honorable MP, & Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism graced the program as chief guest while acting Vice Chancellor of BU Prof. Dr. Mesbah Kamal was in the chair. The chief guest in his speech pointed out that many leaders were born on his soil but only Bangabandhu with his charismatic leadership made it possible to establish an independent and sovereign state Bangladesh by name. We were subjugated. Bengalis were never independent befor...

Aug132022 by No Comments

realme fans to mega discount offers

Breaking News, Business

Youth favorite brand has once again arranged the 828 fan Fest from 8th to 28th August. Great offers on GT Master Edition are going on both online and offline and apart from that customers will get a free sports water bottle with the purchase of any realme phone from their brand shops. The slogan for this year is ‘Keep it real. A global contest is going to be created for the fans to share their inspiring stories. The contest titled “Keep It Real” will run from August 11th to August 15th, 2022. As a brand, realme has always catered to its fans and developed itself to suit the needs of today’s youngsters, and this contest is an example of such an approach. The fans can share different inspiring stories of their lives in this contest. They will have to narrate how they have faced several chal...

Aug132022 by No Comments

Motorola Phone fest at Daraz Shopamania

Breaking News, Business

Motorola Phone fest is ongoing at a weekly sale event at the E-commerce site Daraz named “Daraz Shopamania”. In this campaign, Motorola offers a special discount on its six models of phones along with two variants and colors of Motorola G31. Also, a 0% EMI for up to 12 months also offered in this campaign against all phones. Offered Models in this campaign are Motorola G31 (4+64 GB). Its official Price is BDT 19,99 but the offered price is BDT 17,708. It’s another variant’s (6+128 GB) official price is BDT 23,999 but the offered price is BDT 21,040. Motorola E40, its official Price is BDT 17,499 but the discount Price is BDT 15,577. Motorola E7 Power, its official Price is BDT 13,299, but the discount Price is BDT 12,508. Motorola G40 Fusion, its official Price is BDT 26,999, but the di...