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Only 13 pc of Bangladeshis use Internet, says survey report

Photo: Guests at the launching ceremony of AfterAccess surveys regarding Bangladesh at a city hotel on Tuesday. Dhaka, Oct 2 : A recently released research report shows that by late 2017 only 13 percent of Bangladeshis aged 15-65 used the Internet and social media. This is despite 45 percent of the same age group owning an Internet-friendly device. The findings ...

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Philip Hammond vows to stick with austerity in conference speech

Chancellor also says UK may soon have to tax internet firms such as Amazon and Google Philip Hammond has warned the Treasury’s austerity programme will come under attack from what he called “populists and demagogues” among Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters, but claimed it would retain the backing of the British people. The chancellor said he would withhold funds to protect the ...

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Ecology price – climate change

Fatema Miah: Our ecology is essential for our living; provides vegetation, photosynthesise carbondioxide into oxygen. Our Climate experts now have thought about to put a price on our ecology to compensate to the vaulnebles and those most effected. Our ecology has come under threat, and there have been damages caused to our ecology diversity vastly  since our western modernised Industrialisation ...

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New blue UK passports change affects price and lost its pride

Rayhan Ahmed Topader: The passport manufacturer De La Rue is set to announce it will challenge the government over its decision to manufacture new blue British passports in France. The company will formally launch an appeal against the decision to award the £490m contract to the French-Dutch firm Gemalto on the grounds that it believes it had the best offer ...

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Formation of Pakistan

Fatema Miah: Chapter 2, my book –  Unspoken. The  formation of Pakistan was in partial blindness of greed and ego, together with total inconsideration. A meaningless name was just randomly uttered and announced, by obliterating origins and ethnicities, by denying identification of civilizations, equally as well as being hypocritical to Islam. Therefore, the entire Country Pakistan is bearing the results ...

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UK Brexit chief says no deal better than being tied to bloc

Birmingham, Oct 1 : Britain’s chief Brexit minister is warning the European Union, and his divided party, that the country will leave the bloc without a deal rather than accept close adherence to its rules and obligations. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab will tell Conservative Party members on Monday that if the EU tries to “lock us in via the back ...

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MNP service for cell phone users kicks off today

The much-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) service for the country’s cell phone customers will start in early hours of Monday.   Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will unveil the technical and commercial aspects of MNP at a press conference at its office this morning, said its media wing on Sunday.  Officials said all the mobile phone operators, public switched telephone ...

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