Dhaka, Dec 15 (UNB) - M Shahjahan Khan has been elected President of the Bangladesh Thai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BTCCI) for the term 2018-2020.

The 13th annual general meeting (AGM) of the BTCCI was held at the Dhaka Club Ltd in the city on Saturday which elected new leadership for the bilateral chamber.

Engineer Rashed Maksud Khan, Chairman of Election Board and former president, conducted the BTCCI election.

Gaus Uddin Khan and Md Munir Hossain have been elected as senior vice president and vice president respectively along with Shamima Rahman (Director Administration) and Pramatha Barua (Director Finance) for the same period.

The other newly elected Directors are Asif Ibrahim, Jafer Ummed Khan, Mohammad Hussain Sattar, Hossain A Sikder, Mafiz A Bhuiyan, Montchai Musicubud, Shuchat Suntipada, Kiatkati Chaopaknam, Hasan Mahmud Chowdhury and Junaed Ibne Ali.

Shahjahan Khan, the newly elected President of BTCCI, is the chairman of SS Shipping and Chartering Ltd., SS Shipping and Trading Ltd, Fatema Real Estate and Developers Ltd and SS Builder and Developers Ltd.

He is also a former President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), and former senior vice-president of Barisal Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Dhaka, Dec 15 (UNB) – A new showroom of Vibrant of US-Bangla Footwear Limited has been inaugurated at Banoshree in the city’s Rampura area.

Sheikh Tanvir Taposh, head of marketing, S M Benzir Saklayn, retail operations manager and Md. Kamrul Islam, GM (Marketing Support and PR) of US-Bangla Airlines Limited jointly inaugurated the new showroom.

Other officials of US-Bangla Group were also present during the ceremony.

Vibrant is bringing new fashion footwear products to the market considering the tastes of the people who prefer fashionable items.

Vibrant is committed to provide quality services to the buyers by bringing world-class quality products keeping standard of the items and their prices in active consideration also. Vibrant footwear products are manufactured in its own state-of-the-art factory ensuring 100 percent use of cow leather as raw material.

About 800 models of news designed footwear for male, female and children are available at new outlets of Vibrant at Banoshree in Rampura.

The company is going to inaugurate new showroom at Mirpur in the capital and Saidpur, Nilphamari districts. It will gradually open showrooms at all towns and cities in 64 districts across the country.

For the convenience of the customers, there will be the provision of making payments using VISA and Master card besides cash payment. The company already started customer service through online.

On the occasion of inauguration of the showroom, the company has offered special 20 percent discount on all products. The visitors can enjoy the special discount at House-12, Block-B, Main Road, Banoshree, Rampura.

Dhaka, Dec 13 (UNB) – The Energy Division will launch a campaign to raise awareness among consumers about the safe use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) across the country.  

Private companies that are involved in the LPG business will also be engaged in the awareness campaign if needed. 

“If need be, we’ll go for a mechanism to enforce the LPG companies to run a campaign at their own initiative through the electronic, print and other media to make people aware about the safe and secure use of LPG,” Energy Secretary Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem said while addressing a press briefing at the Energy Ministry on Thursday.

The Energy Division arranged the press briefing against the backdrop of a series of recent incidents of fire and explosions from household LPG containers that killed a number of people.

Other senior officials of the Energy Division were present at the briefing. 

“Actually, LPG is safe in its nature. It’s a by-product of natural gas which is bottled at very low pressure and normally, it carries no risk of any fire incident,” said the energy secretary.

He claimed that the fire incidents which took place in recent days were because of wrong use and leakage in the regulating point of a household LPG bottle.  

Muneem said it was found during investigation that either there were leakages in the LPG bottles’ regulating points or the safety valves were not working. “As a result, gas comes out of the bottle and accumulates in a small room and it bursts into flames when people start an oven through a matchstick,” he said.

He said all the incidents took place for lack of awareness. “Many people try to heat the LPG container to get maximum gas which sometimes leads to fire incident.”

He urged the consumers to mandatorily maintain safety rules of the LPG container. “You must shut down the switch of the regulator of the LPG container and again open the door and windows of the kitchen before switching on the oven to be sure that gas goes out of the room.”

Dhaka, Dec 13 (UNB)-  Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) on Wednesday opened its 195th agent outlet at Budpura Bazar in Patiya Upazila of Chattogram.

Chairman of KDS Group, President of Chattogram Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Chairman of AIBL Capital Market Services Ltd, Khalilur Rahman formally inaugurated the outlet as chief guest, said a press release.

Director of the Bank and Chairman of AIBL Capital Management Ltd, Ahamedul Hoque, Executive Vice President and Head of Agent Banking Division, Abed Ahmed Khan and Chittagong Zonal Head and Senior Vice President Mohammad Azam were also present there.

The programme was chaired by agent of the outlet, M Idris Chowdhury Apu while it was moderated by FAVP of agent banking division Mohammad Sakhawat Hossain.

Customers will be able to open accounts, deposit and withdraw money, collect remittance, check account balance, transfer funds, apply for investment, collect sanctions, pay utility bills, pay installments and can do all other banking activities more easily using the outlet.

Dhaka, Dec 12 (UNB)- The Bangladesh’s multinational electronics brand ‘Walton’ reduced the prices of its big screen Android Smart and LED televisions marking the victory month of December.

According to Walton authorities, they reduced the prices of 32-inch Smart and LED televisions by Tk 1,100. Now, customers can buy Walton brand 32-inch Smart TV at tk 23,800 and LED tk18,800.

Prices of Walton Smart and LED televisions of both 39 and 43-inch were reduced by Tk 2,000. The new price of its 39-inch Smart and LED televisions is Tk 34,900 and Tk 29,900 respectively. Customers are now offered Walton 43-inch Smart TV at Tk 37,900 and LED TV at Tk 34,900.

Following the country’s victory month, Walton offered discounts up to 10 percent and free home delivery on its all sorts of televisions for the customers of its online sales network ‘e-plaza’.

Maruf Hasan, head of sales of Walton Television Department, said “Walton brand televisions has been turned into the customers’ top choices in the local market for having some uniqueness like application of world’s latest technology and features, world-class quality, lucrative and stylish designs, reasonable rates, products’ availability in every corner of the country and deliberation of swift post sales services.”

Walton is now offering 6-month replacement warranty for television panel, and two years warranty for panel and spare parts as well as free after sales of services for five years.