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Facebook’s interest in investing in the digital infrastructure sector

Facebook is working to invest in the digital infrastructure sector in Bangladesh. A high-level virtual meeting on investment was held between Facebook authorities and BTRC on August 9 in the presence of Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar. Secretary of Posts and Telecommunications Md. Afzal Hossain and Chairman of BTRC Shamsunder Sikder addressed the meeting. During the meeting, Director General of BTRC Brigadier General Md. Nasim Parvez presented a picture of the progress of the telecom sector in Bangladesh. The Minister for Posts and Telecommunications highlighted the overall progress of the telecom sector in Bangladesh and said that the digital connectivity sector is a thrust sector for investment. Done. He said that the life of the people of the country has be...

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A temporary waiver of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

Breaking News, Health

An article written by Parsa Erfani, Agnes Binagwaho, Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, Muhammad Yunus, Paul Farmer, and Vanessa Kerry has been published in the British Medical Journal, on 3rd August 2021 titled " Intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines will advance global health equity" which focuses on the importance of a temporary IP waiver to reach global needs. The article states the current vaccination figures show that the percentage of people in high-income countries who have been vaccinated is 46% while 20% in middle-income countries and 0.9% in low-income countries. This is largely due to the acquisition of doses by high-income countries in large quantities as well as production is restricted to a small number of manufacturers. The article states that a clear scarcity of supply...

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REVE Chat Announces WhatsApp Business Channel Integration to Strengthen Its Omni channel Solution

Breaking News, Business

REVE Chat, the global provider of AI enabled omni channel customer engagement platforms, announced the integration with the WhatsApp Business channel to help businesses build personalized relationships and deliver top-notch customer support. REVE Chat platform also supports Live Chat, Chatbots, Facebook, Viber, Telegram etc. as customer engagement channels. WhatsApp is a popular messaging app with more than 2 billion active users. Now with REVE Chat, from the same dashboard, businesses can manage WhatsApp conversations along with other channels like web, Facebook, etc. On the REVE Chat platform, messages to a single WhatsApp Business number can be accessed through multiple agents, can route to different agents as well as managers can monitor the performance of their agents. M Rezaul Hass...

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Specific proposals by eminent persons to amend the tobacco control law

Breaking News, National

MPs and doctors made specific proposals to amend the tobacco control law. In particular, the negotiators emphasized the need to amend the existing tobacco control law. Barrister Shamim Haider Patwary, MP, Gaibandha-1 and Member, Standing Committee on the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Advocate Syeda Rubina Akhter Mira, MP, Women's Seat-24 and Member, Standing Committee on the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, Professor Dr. Pran Gopal Datta, former Vice-Chancellor, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and Professor Dr. Sohel Reza Choudhury, Head of Department, Department of Epidemiology and Research, National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute took part in the live discussion program organized by Dhaka Ahsania Mission on the evening of Augu...

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4 more women entrepreneurs received eSheBee and Edinburgh University Research Fellowship

Breaking News, National

eSheBee Enterprises, a research organization working for grassroots women entrepreneurship development in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Scotland had launched Research Entrepreneurs Fellowship. The main goal of the Fellowship is to expand a network of Local Research Assistants (RAs) in rural Bangladesh and increase the capacity of research assistants through pilot projects. Under the fellowship, in the first phase, scholarships are being given to 6 women entrepreneurs from 6 divisions of Bangladesh. In the second phase, scholarships are being given to 4 more women entrepreneurs of Bangladesh. With this, a total of 10 women entrepreneurs got the opportunity of this fellowship. 4 new women entrepreneurs who received fellowships are-Julia Mardi (Rajshahi), Afrin Akther Mim...

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‘The role of Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah in the establishment of Dhaka University is evident’- Speakers at the discussion

Breaking News, National

Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, a prominent twentieth-century academic, Sufi saint and social reformer, obtained his MA in Philosophy from Calcutta University in 1895. Then for 34 long years, he kept himself engaged in teaching and education service and tried to make the backward people of Bengal interested in education especially in English education. Through his diligent efforts, several educational institutions were established in different parts of Chittagong, Cumilla and Brahmanbaria. From 1914 to 1928 he was a member of the Senate, Syndicate, other important committees and councils of Calcutta University. He was nominated a member of an important sub-committee of the Nathan Committee formed in 1912 to formulate the Dhaka University Scheme. Later, Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah was nominated ...

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FA Sumon’s ‘Sudhu Tor Khoje’

Breaking News, Entertainment

After a long time, vocalist FA Sumon came up with a new song for the audience. He has recently released a new song titled 'Sudhu Tor Khoje'. Amit Kar has the tune and music of the song with the words of journalist Omar Faruk Bishal. The song 'Sudhu Tor Khoje' has been used in the play 'Double Zero'. A video of the song has been made. The video was made by Preeti Dutt. The video features actors Irfan Sajjad and Sarika Sabah. The song 'Sudhu Tor Khoje' has been released on the YouTube channel of the production company G-Series. Regarding the song, FA Sumon said, "The words of the song 'Sudhu Tor Khoje' are excellent." I also tried to give the audience a good gift of a song. Hopefully, my new song will be liked by the audience. It is to be mentioned that FA Sumon got wide popularity ...

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“Hiroshima Day 2021” organized by Swapnadal

Breaking News, Entertainment

Drama organization Swapnadal is celebrating 'Hiroshima Day 2021' on Friday, August 8 under the slogan 'No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki, no more nuclear weapons, no more war'. At 5:30 pm, the dream team of Hiroshima-Nagasaki tragedy-based anti-war laboratory drama production and 'Festival / Tokyo 2018' official program 'Thirty Centenary' online digital broadcast (dreaming of Japan and Tokyo Metropolitan Theater 'night: There will be a live performance of 'Thirty Centuries' with a Facebook live discussion on the subject. For the last 20 years, Swapnadal has been regularly celebrating 'Hiroshima Day' as the only theater troupe in the world with various formalities. The day has been celebrated digitally online since last year due to the corona-epidemic. State Minister for Culture KM ...

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Sombhabona’s tree planting program

Breaking News, National

With the aim of planting lakhs of trees across the country Sombhabona's tree planting program has been started. The program started on August 2 with the planting of more than 300 trees in the open space of two shelter projects, Union Parishad and Gopalpur Azgar Ali School in Sujanagar Police Station, Kathalbaria, Mozaitpur village in Pabna district. The tree-planting program on August 2 was attended by the chairman, secretary, potential volunteers and residents of the area concerned. The overall maintenance of the trees will be assisted by the District Forest Department, concerned Union Parishads, local volunteers of Sombhabona Youth for Bangladesh and residents of the concerned areas. In this regard, Ariful Islam, co-founder of Sombhabona, said that as a volunteer, there are some re...

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4th Bangladesh Marketing Day celebrated

Breaking News, Business

Bangladesh Marketing Day has recently been celebrated across the country with the theme of Combating Crisis. For the fourth time, the Marketers' Institute of Bangladesh celebrated the day for the fourth time with millions of teachers, students and professionals in the country's marketing sector. Member Secretary of the Organizing Council Dr. Shariful Islam Dulu delivered the welcome address at the inaugural function. The convener of the organizing council Prof. Dr. Mizanur Rahman announced the inauguration of the main episode of the 4th Bangladesh Marketing Day. Mr. Sheikh Bashir Uddin, Managing Director of Akij Group, one of the best industrial enterprises in the country, delivered a valuable speech for the marketing family. The inaugural session ended with a vote of thanks by the Co-C...