City Desk : Environment, Forest and Climate Change Saber Hossain Chowdhury has urged the nations worldwide to join an urgent and decisive action aiming to achieve net zero emission target before 2050 and cap temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius. He underscored the urgent need for global solidarity in addressing the unprecedented environmental challenges the humanity is facing, reports BSS. The environment minister came up with the call while delivering his national statement at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA6) in...
Day: March 2, 2024
BSS : The 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) has been extended by one day, until Friday (March 1) in order...
Business Desk : Emirates Skywards, the loyalty programme of Emirates and flydubai, announced an exclusive, multi-year strategic partnership with Visa, a world leader in digital payments. The new partnership with Visa will strengthen collaboration between Emirates Skywards and co-brand issuer partners across the GCC; enable the loyalty programme to work more closely with its partners on personalization and data-driven decision making; improve digitization and innovation; and increase opportunities for more personalised rewards and products on co-brand card propositions. “Here in...
Business Desk : An agreement has recently been signed between IFAD Autos and upay to enable the vehicle manufacturing company to collect monthly installments from its customers and pay employees salaries through upay, the countrys fastest growing mobile financial service provider. IFAD Autos Limiteds Executive Director Uttiya Bakshi Abir and upays Chief Business Officer Mahbub Sobhan signed the agreement on behalf of their respective concerns. Because of this agreement, the customers of IFAD Autos Limited can now pay their monthly...
DU Correspondent : The book titled ‘Memories of Bangladesh’, a comprehensive collection of newspaper articles from the Bangladesh Liberation War, has been unveiled at the Ekushey Book Fair. This unique compilation spans over twelve hundred pages and includes nearly all articles, editorials, and photographs published in nine major British newspapers, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and The Times, covering the events in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) from the outbreak of the liberation war until January 1972. Shahabuddin Chowdhury, a...
Agency : Ireland put themselves in a strong position to claim their first Test victory at the eighth attempt despite...
City Desk : Speakers at a programme have laid emphasis on stepping up efforts supporting the government of Bangladesh to...
Business Desk : Standard Chartered Bangladesh recently inked an agreement with Mokam, one of ShopUp’s subsidiary platforms, to automate payment processes via Application Programming Interface (API) integration. This real-time digital payment solution has been termed move money payment API, reads a press release. Standard Chartered Bangladesh is helping ShopUp and Mokam to simplify working capital management and reconciliation processes – which ensures quick product sourcing and eventually, quick selling. By implementing the Move Money Payment API connectivity between Standard Chartered...