Bishwa Ijtema concludes with Akheri Munajat
January 23, 2012
Thousands of people from home and abroad sought forgiveness from the Almighty Allah and prayed for peace, progress and prosperity of the Muslims in the final prayers (Akheri Munajat) of the three-day second-phase Bishwa Ijtema that ended at Tongi in Gazipur on Sunday.
Maulana Jobaerul Hasan from Delhi, a member of the Tabligh Jamaat advisory committee Read more
In’tl Children’s Film Festival begins
January 23, 2012
The four-day Fifth International Children’s Film Festival started at Bangladesh Development Society auditorium in Barisal city on Saturday. In association with UNICEF, Children’s Film Society Bangladesh is organising the festival titled ‘Future in Frames’ without any entrance fee. Prof Md Hanif, former principal Govt BM College, inaugurated the festival Read more
Dhaka Gladiators reconfirm availability of Afridi, Ajmal
January 23, 2012
Dhaka Gladiators reconfirmed the availability of Pakistan superstar Shahid Afridi in the first edition of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) in the wake of his presence in Bangladesh once again being questioned. A media release sent by the Gladiators on Sunday said that Afridi and his compatriot Saeed Ajmal will be available for the Dhaka franchise on February 28 and Read more
BPL won’t change rule for Sylhet
January 23, 2012
Bangladesh Premier League’s governing council are adamant to keep the icon players’ magnitude intact after one franchise protested their latest ruling.
The Sylhet Royals are urging the authorities to change the decision that was taken on Saturday which had the six icons — Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shahriar Nafees, Alok Kapali Read more
337 out of 426 call centres out of business
January 22, 2012
Lack of fluency in spoken English blamed
After getting their licences only three and a half years ago, more than 80 per cent of the country’s call centres have gone out of business. This has created a void in the potential sector, which was supposed to fetch a considerable amount of foreign currency every year, leaving it unutilised and unexplored.
According to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), licences Read more
BASIS SoftExpo on Feb 22-26
January 22, 2012
SoftExpo 2012, the largest exposition of software and ICT enabled services (ITES) will be held on February 22-26. Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), the organizers of the show announced that the event will take place at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
The theme for this year’s softexpo’s is ‘Empowering Next Generation’ Read more
Online bookstore launched
January 22, 2012
Rokomari.com, an online shopping portal, was launched in the city yesterday with a view to help both readers buy books without physically visiting any store and pay the bills upon receiving the delivery.
Noted litterateur Anisul Hoque and Munir Hasan, general secretary of Bangladesh Math Olympiad, inaugurated the store at a ceremony at a school in the Read more
Changing the web forever?
January 22, 2012
Tech giants protest against two online anti-piracy US bills
Those of you who visited Wikipedia’s English page, Google, Mozilla, WordPress or Reddit on January 18 might have thought that they have changed the outlook and black was the in thing in web designing, but these major websites censored their own sites to observe the “blackout” protest against two online anti-piracy US bills SOPA and PIPA- currently under consideration on Read more
Huawei debuts mobile devices
January 22, 2012
Huawei, a leading global brand in the mobile broadband and convergence device field, on Wednesday for the first time unveiled a suite of world class mobile devices including Android smartphones, Android tablet, touch phones, messaging phones and music phones in the country, which are designed to give users a simple and enjoyable mobile Read more
Good and bad news for BPL
January 22, 2012
Icons get $210k
It was a mixed day for the Bangladesh Premier League as an international cricketer turned down the chance to play the competition’s inaugural season. At the same time, the proposed link with a major television channel could boost the Twenty20 tournament.
West Indies captain Darren Sammy has put his own country’s domestic and international Read more
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