Business Report : Leading smartphone brand Honor has started pre-booking for its new 200 series devices, ‘Honor 200’ and ‘Honor 200 Pro’. The pre-booking will continue until August 14, 2024. The Honor 200 Pro is priced at BDT 84,999 and will be available in Ocean Cyan and Black colors. The Honor 200 is priced at BDT 64,999 and will be available in Moonlight White and Black. Pre-book customers will receive attractive gifts and offers, including significant cashback and other benefits....
Day: August 14, 2024
Business Report : Loans amounting to nearly $600 million or Tk 7,000 crore disbursed from the Export Development Fund (EDF), which was formed based on the fund from the country’s foreign exchange reserves, have been defaulted, according to a Bangladesh Bank document. Firms based in Dhaka defaulted most of the amount at $558.7 million. Chattogram-based firms did not return $29.7 million, the BB data shows. Among Dhaka’s top 20 entities that defaulted on these loans are Crescent Group’s Remex Footwear...
Business Report : Country Director of the World Bank in Bangladesh and Bhutan Abdoulaye Seck on Tuesday renewed the World Bank Group’s commitments to Bangladesh saying they are ready to work with the interim government led by Nobel laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus as the chief adviser. “We renewed our World Bank Group’s commitments and we stand ready to work with the interim government to continue the long standing strong partnership between the World Bank and Bangladesh with a commitments...
Business Report : Air Astra has recently become an IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) registered operator as the youngest airline ever from Bangladesh to qualify for the globally-recognized safety benchmark. Over the past decade, IOSA has become the most well-recognized and accredited evaluation system to assess the airlines’ operational management and control systems to ensure safety, reads a press release. By statistics, non-IOSA airlines experienced three times more accidents than IOSA-registered airlines. Air Astra achieved the status within just 20...
City Desk : BNP Standing Committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has warned of a potential conspiracy surrounding the National Mourning Day on August 15, asserting that “awakened students will confront any such plot.” He made these remarks while visiting students receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday, reports media. Dr Moin said: “The interim government has been formed through the choice of the students and the people. As a result, they will fulfil their responsibilities properly....
City Desk : Dhaka’s air quality was categorized as “unhealthy for sensitive groups” on Tuesday morning.With an air quality index (AQI) score of 121 at 9:38am, Dhaka ranked sixth on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, reports UNB. Indonesia’s Jakarta, Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kinshasa, and Pakistan’s Lahore occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 163, 168, 154 and 147, respectively....
City Desk : Social Welfare Advisor Sharmin Murshid on Tuesday called for utilizing the meritorious youths for reforming society. “Merit-based offices should be built and party politics will not work here in any way. All must work together to build a new society and a country by utilizing the power of the youth with the belief that intelligence, science and logic can free the nation,” she said, reports BSS. The social welfare adviser said this while addressing a meeting at...
