‘Govt attaches highest priority to sustainable LDC graduation’

The Government attaches highest level of priority to ensuring smooth and sustainable LDC graduation from Bangladesh with momentum in its plans and executing such plans accordingly, said Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Dr. Ahmad Kaikaushas on Wednesday.  “To this end, we have established an effective platform to support Sustainable Graduation taking all the relevant stakeholders on board”—he said.He was speaking as a chief guest of a virtual meeting on ‘Graduation of Bangladesh from the least developed country (LDC) category and smooth transition towards sustainable development’.Economic Relations Division (ERD) of the Government of Bangladesh, The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) and UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) jointly organized the meeting. The meeting reviewed the priorities of Bangladesh in prepa...

Oracle announces programme to help customers

Oracle on Wednesday announced a new Oracle Support Rewards program to help customers speed migrations to the cloud while reducing their software license support costs. Now, customers making new commitments to buy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services can earn rewards that reduce or even eliminate their Oracle on-premises technology licensing support bills.With this program, all Oracle technology license support customers will earn at least 25 cents of Support Rewards for each dollar of...

China to boost new models of foreign trade to develop competitive edge

Xinhua, BeijingChina will accelerate the development of new forms and models of foreign trade to push forward its upgrading and foster new competitive strengths, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premi...

‘Digital economy being built thru public-pvt joint efforts’

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said the digital economy is being built through the joint efforts of government-private sector and academia. ICT exports have already reached 1 billion and it will be increased to 5 billion dollars by 2025.The State Minister said this on Thursday while speaking as the chief guest at the concluding session of a three-month training course for CEOs of IT organizations jointly organized by the LICT Project of Bangladesh Computer Council under the Department of Information and Communication Technology and the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University. He said the government has formulated a growth strategy titled 'Mission 5 Billion Dollars' for the IT industry with a view to achievi...

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Ronaldo matches all-time record

Reuters, BudapestCristiano Ronaldo came to Portugal’s rescue with two penalties to cancel out a brace from France’s Karim Benzema in an enthralling 2-2 draw that sent both sides into the Euro 2020 last 16 in a frantic conclusion to Group F on Wednesday.An anxious night for the reigning European champions saw them occupy every position in the so-called group of death at various junctures but the 36-year-old Ronaldo, so often his country’s saviour, stepped up to reach another career milestone.He had already become the highest-ever scorer in Euro finals with his double against Hungary in the opening game and his two spot-kick conversions -- in the 31st and 60th minutes -- took him to 109 international goals, level with the record number scored by Iran’s Ali Daei.Benzema’s first was also from the spot as for the first time in European Championship history three penalties were converted in regular time.The Frenchman, recalled by manager Didier Deschamps for the tournament after a five-year exile, equalised on the stroke of halftime with his first France goal for five years and 258 days.He put France ahead two minutes after the interval and with Hungary leading Germany at that point in the other game, Portugal were bottom of Group F and staring at the exit.But Ronaldo coolly beat Hugo Lloris again from 12 yards and Portugal held on for the draw which means they finished on four points in third place and can now prepare for a last-16 clash against Belgium in Seville.World champions France topped a crazy group with five points and will take on Switzerl...

Dengue threat looms large amid Covid surge

Mosquito-borne disease dengue might strike with its full virulence this year amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic crisis. It is startling to note that the month of June has so far  accounted for...

Flash floods likely from July

As reported by this daily on Tuesday, flash floods may occur across the low-lying areas mostly in the north eastern and north western regions where huge areas of crop land are likely to be inundated.According to the Water Development Board, water lev...

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