Bangladesh

    The nation is paying deep homage to the Liberation War martyrs Saturday marking the country’s 47th Victory Day. On this day in 1971, Pakistani occupation forces surrendered after a nine-month war resulting in free, independent and sovereign Bangladesh. This year, the Victory Day celebrations reached a new height as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) on October 30 last recognised Bangabandhu’s historic 7th March Speech as a world documentary heritage. On March 7 in 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his fiery speech called on the freedom-loving Bangalis to wage a decisive struggle against the Pakistani rulers. Ebarer sangram amader muktir sangram, ebarer sangram swadhinatar sangram [The struggl...

Bangladesh StartUp Cup 2017 is a country wide StartUp competition and ecosystem building tool launched by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, India based impact investment firm Aaavishkar and BetterStories Limited. StartUp Cup business model is an innovative community based approach designed to increase the quality and quantity of entrepreneurs in any community. The aim of the competition is two-fold. On the one hand to identify and coach promising entrepreneurs from rural areas in Bangladesh who are addressing social challenges. By offering targeted training to these starting companies they are better able to present themselves to potential investors and are as such better positioned to launch successful companies. On the other hand to create an entrepreneurial (startup) ecos...

    Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Tuesday inaugurated the expanded national emergency services through using toll-free hotline number ‘999’ across the country. The number - 999- is an official emergency telephone number used in a number of countries around the world allowing the caller to contact emergency services for urgent assistance. Joy inaugurated the services at a function in the capital Dhaka’s National Control and Command Centre well-known as Police Control Room of Abdul Gani Road with the presence of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Inspector General of Police A K M Shahidul Hoque, among others. A dedicated call centre has already been set up at the Police Control Room to provide the s...

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government will set up one high-tech park in every district to flourish the ICT sector. Necessary incentives will also be given if the investors come up to invest in this sector in proposed 100 economic zones across the country,’ she said, reports the UNB. The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating a four-day Digital World - an ICT exposition at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre with the slogan ‘Ready for Tomorrow. The ICT Division in collaboration with Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) organised the exposition. Sheikh Hasina called upon all to work together to build Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Father of the Nation through turning the country into a welfare oriented, ...

    Bangladesh’s first-ever robot restaurant was launched in capital Dhaka on Wednesday. The programme was arranged jointly by Robot Restaurant and a China-based robot-making organisation HZX Electronic Technology Company at its own auditorium in Dhaka. The Robot Restaurant and the robot-making organisation organised a press conference on Wednesday on the occasion of launching programmne of the restaurant. Located at busy city street in Family World Convention Center 2/6 Asad Gate, Mirpur Road, Dhaka near Bangladesh Prime Minister’s official residence, Robot Restaurant invites all classes of people to experience and enjoy robotic service. This is a restaurant first of its kind in Bangladesh, foods will be served to customers by robots, said the organisers, said a pres...

    Amid various speculations and row over the Supreme Court’s 16th amendment verdict, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, now abroad, has finally stepped down. President Abdul Hamid received his resignation letter, said his press secretary Joynal Abedin on Saturday. Earlier in the day, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the President is yet to receive any resignation letter from Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha. ‘We’ve heard about Sinha’s resignation ...we’re not sure as the President has not yet received any letter from Sinha,’ said Quader while responding to a query from reporters over Sinha’s resignation after attending a programme at Dhaka University. Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha went on leave on October 3 on health ground and left for Austral...