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GP�s illegal business

GP’s illegal business
Bangladesh’s leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) is leasing out its transmission network to a number of internet service providers illegally that poses a threat to the growth of nationwide telecommunication transmission network (NTTN) business. Though GP has denied the allegation, documents obtained by The Independent show that GP is illegally offering transmission network on rental basis to more than 50 companies such as Aamra Com, BDcom, MetroNet, M&H, Getco, TelnetCom, Akij Group, Link3, ADN, Banglalion, Jibondhara and BTS Communication. According to the obtained billing documents, leasing dates range from August 2013 to December 2014 in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khunla, Barisal, Bogra and other parts of the country.…

President parade held 
at BAF Academy

President parade held at BAF Academy

President parade of summer graduation-2015 marking the commissioning of 71 Flight Cadet Course and Direct Entry–2015 Officer Cadet Course of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) was held at the BAF Academy in Jessore yesterday.  Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Abu Esrar attended the ceremony as the…
‘Authorities should beef 
up its monitoring’

�Authorities should beef up its monitoring�

Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) yesterday held a meeting with the consumers at the conference room at the CWASA. As many as 250 consumers from different areas of the city raised their grievances attending the meeting. The consumers of Halishahar, Agrabad and Patenga areas of the…
Why China will likely win its maritime disputes

Why China will likely win its maritime disputes

For decades China has been expanding its military and economic reach, giving it increasing diplomatic leverage year on year. Provided China does not fall into the deepest of recessions or suffer a collapse of central authority as other dictatorships have in recent years, Beijing’s authority will…
Rethinking water resources for 
a sustainable future

Rethinking water resources for a sustainable future

Complexity in transboundary water issues between Bangladesh and India still remain in gray.  The rivers are drying out and our agriculture, hydropower generation, urban development and ecosystems are no more a successive process of sharing river-water. Every day we are digging deep to hit the fossil…
23 Jamaat, Shibir men held

23 Jamaat, Shibir men held

Police arrested 23 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from different areas of the city on Tuesday night, reports BSS. Additional deputy police commissioner of KMP Moniruzzaman Mithu said based on secret information, police conducted drives in different…
PSTN operators not eligible to bid

PSTN operators not eligible to bid

Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) operators will not be eligible to bid in the auction of 1800 and 2100 MHz Band spectrum.   “The Prime Minister Office has suggested holding the auction only between mobile phone operators and broadband wireless access operators canceling the option…
Russia to boost nuclear arsenal

Russia to boost nuclear arsenal

AFP, MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia must defend itself if threatened, as the US warned against a return to a "Cold War status" after Moscow announced plans to boost its nuclear arsenal. The declaration from the Kremlin strongman came as Russia reacted with fury to…
Shubho Mahurat of ‘Rocket’ held

Shubho Mahurat of �Rocket� held

Audience-admired Bangladeshi actress Bidya Sinha Saha Mim and West Bengal popular actor Soham have paired up together for the first time in a joint venture film titled ‘Rocket’. The Shubho Mahurat of the film was held at a city hotel on Monday evening with Information Minister Hasanul Haq…
Bangladesh eye Champions Trophy berth

Bangladesh eye Champions Trophy berth

Bangladesh are on the verge of creating a history as a prospect of earning a Champions Trophy berth in 2017 beckons them in their three-match ODI series against India. A victory in just one game in the three-match series against India would be enough to put them in the seventh position, ousting the…
Couple sets example in making organic manure, pesticides

Couple sets example in making organic manure, pesticides

 They are making organic manure and pesticides at home, setting an example of taking innovative approach in a simpler way. Asadul Islam, 52, and his wife Yuthi Khatun, 45, are using indigenous method to make the organic manures and pesticides. Yuthi Khatun said primarily they started producing…
Miseries peak for flood-hit people in Sirajganj, Bogra

Miseries peak for flood-hit people in Sirajganj, Bogra

The rush of water downstream in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna river system has continued to play havoc by washing away large chunks of farm lands, 400 homes and at least six educational institutions in five flood-hit upazilas of Sirajganj. Our Sirajganj correspondent reports that 17 more educational institutions…
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