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For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract youth to tobacco and nicotine products. Tobacco causes 8 million deaths worldwide. In Bangladesh alone, tobacco-related illness claims 126,000 lives a year. For tobacco ...
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI), organized a remembrance and Doa Mahfil to pay tribute to late renowned educationist and founding Principal of Sunbeams School, Mrs. Niloufer Manzur, wife of MCCI’s Former President Syed Manzur Elahi and mother of MCCI’s Former ...
Budgetary allocation for persons with disabilities under social safety-net scheme is very insufficient to address the needs of disabled people, said speakers at a virtual consultation and suggested to rise the allocation to an expected level. They also raised some specific recommendations for ...
RFL Gas Stove, country’s popular gas stove brand, has donated Tk two lakh to Child and Old Age Care as part of its “Khuda Na Chula Joluk” campaign. Md. Nazmul Haque, Senior Brand Manager of RFL Gas Stove, handed over a cheque of Tk two lakh to Milton Samadder, founder of Child and ...
National Board of Revenue research recommends increasing supplementary duty (SD) on bidi, levying a portion of SD as specific tax and spending the additional revenues earned on alternative employment of bidi workers, said a press release of an anti-tobacco organization on Friday.The release said , B...
More than 230 teacher's family received Eid gift packages from a joint initiative of the organisations 'Amar Foods' & 'Esho Shobai'. The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 left schools/offices closed, resulting many people without pay. From people who lived from hand to ...
The 5-day 15th annual Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) is scheduled to be held as a virtual, live-streamed event from June 15 to 19.The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Korea Energy Agency will jointly host the event. At a time of unprecedented ...
BRAC has allocated a budget of BDT 30 million (3 crore) for low-income families in 10 upazilas of three coastal districts to help repair of households and water sanitation and hygine (WASH) facilities damaged by Cyclone Amphan. Amphan killed at least 22 people as it thumped the country’s ...
Leading multinational Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis (Bangladesh) Limited has donated 28,000 personal protective equipment (PPEs) to Swiss Red Cross and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society. The equipment includes Medical gown, KN 95 masks and goggles worth of BDT 2.27 crore will be dis...
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has stood by 7,000 families with gift items amid COVID-19 crisis.“Of these, BEZA has already distributed gift items to 4,000 families. Relief work is underway to distribute among 3,000 more families in the cyclone Ampan affected districts and the back...
NOVOAIR has distributed food among the distressed people on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Food was distributed among about 2,000 distressed people at NOVOAIR office premises in Uttara on Monday.Officials of NOVOAIR were present on this occasion. In this situation of Corona pandemic, from the point of...
As a part of Grameenphone’s COVID-19 responses to support the nation, the company has completed the distributon of 50,000 sets of medical-grade full set professional PPE to DGHS selected 12 hospitals. Medical frontliners of Bangladesh have been courageously fighting the spread of the coro...
The Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday approved ADB’s financial statements and the allocation of its 2019 net income in its first-ever virtual Annual Meeting held amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.The approval came at the first stage of the 53...
The Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) has been selling essential goods with subsidised price for the people of Chattogram city since the beginning of Holy Ramadan month.The programme is aimed at giving items of day-to-day necessities to common people, especially low-income and poor ...
The current Covid-19 situation has presented both the world and Bangladesh with critical new challenges. It is more important than ever that Government, businesses, and development partners work together towards supporting people who survive on daily wages and living in extreme poverty. Grameen...
E-commerce based online marketplace Evaly has provided health care and safety products to the National Emergency Services Center 999 authorities. In the midst of the Covid-19 Corona situation, these items were provided to protect the personal health of the members on duty at the service center run b...
The government has appointed two commissioners at the securities regulator to make the commission functional removing the quorum crisis.The ministry of finance (MoF) confirmed their appointment for four years through a gazette notification issued on Wednesday.The newly-appointed two commissioners ar...
Considering customers’ convenience, Samsung Bangladesh and Unimart have taken a new initiative under which Samsung’s smartphones will be available from May 21, 2020, at Unimart outlets. Amid these challenging times, to facilitate customers in buying their preferred smart devices, Sa...
Sheikh Moulana Mohammad Qutubuddin (Rah.), Chairman of Shari`ah Supervisory Committee of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited and Chairman of Baitush Sharaf Anjuman-E-Ittehad Bangladesh passed away at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun. Professor Md. Nazmul Has...
Coca-Cola, along with its partner CARE Bangladesh, is supporting over 50,000 people of disadvantaged communities with a month’s food ration to help them address the current COVID-19 hardships.This distribution is part of Coca-Cola’s commitment of Taka 11.5 crore to support the government...
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