The government is likely introduce the Grameen Mobile Money Order service from next month to reduce illegal money transfer and to contain the financing of terrorists, said official sources. ‘The post and telecommunications ministry has already submitted a proposal to the finance ministry for introducing the service styled Grameen Mobile Money Order,’ said a senior official.
The World Bank approved a $130 million credit to Bangladesh on Friday to increase access to electricity through installation of affordable Solar Home Systems (SHS) in rural areas.
The number of rural landless households in the country increased by 2.66 percentage points in 12 years, according to the latest survey by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Every year the number of the poverty stricken people increases for a number of reasons most of which remain unattended by the government and its concerned departments.
The experts at a conference here on Tuesday said as many as 20,000 Bangladeshi infants' lives could be saved each year if all new born babies were fed oral dose of vitamin A shortly after birth. According to a study conducted by Johns Hopkins University and published in July, 2008 in pediatrics, official Journal of the American Academy of pediatrics, giving a single dose of vitamin A to Bangladeshi newborns can reduce infant deaths by 15 percent.
A video from a community technology center in Comilla, Bangladesh, in which local kids get a chance to learn how to use computers and the Internet.
The Federal Communications Commission capped a subsidy program that helps fund cell phone coverage in rural areas.
Prince Habib is a popular singer of this time. Specially, the popularity of him out of Dhaka can be marked. Eight albums have been released of this singer of Bashura. The albums made the business successfully. Bandhobi Bhule Geso, Upoma Harale Kothay, Shajani Kothay Tumi, Kemon aso Bandhobi are the names of his popular albums.
High import cost of raw materials soared the prices of corrugated iron (CI) sheet over 50 per cent in the last two years, halving the demand for the product that is mostly used by low-earning rural people.
A market survey says the CI sheet is now selling at a price ranging from Tk1lakh 7thousand to Tk 1lakh 9thousand a tonne, which was Tk97-98 thousand just two weeks back.
The bankers working in the rural areas are not serious about finding out new clients and creating loan demands
The country’s rural economy was in a total shambles as the bankers are not properly exploring investment avenues in farm and non-farm sectors.
