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Farizaa Sabreen

Enjoy an array of iftar delights at radisson during ramadan

Radisson Water Garden Hotel Dhaka invites to indulge with a series of Iftar delights during the Holy Month of Ramadan. The Spice & Rice Restaurant of Radisson Water Garden Hotel Dhaka will display a special buffet with tempting traditional and international Iftar delicacies such as special soup, date, Thai salad, pakora, spring rolls, halim, sheik kebab, jali kebab, koti kebab, reshmi kebab, potato chop, nargis kofta, lamb kofta, fish cutlet, pâtés, naan, biriyani, mix fruit cocktail, chicken wings, fish finger, fuska, chatpati, faluda, banana smoothie, lassi, channa masala, dahi balay, meat ball, vegetable tikka, halwa pori, jilabi, rashmalai, assorted dessert, shahi zardah, fresh fruit cuts, and many more until the end of the holy month.

Apart from the regular iftar buffet at Spice & Rice Restaurant, one may also choose to host a private iftar party with a specially tailored Banquet Menu at any of the hotels' banquet halls. Guests may also choose to take-away delicious iftar items from Chit Chat Deli Café located at the ground floor of the hotel.

KFC Gulshan celebrates 1st anniversary

KFC is the international restaurant chain in Bangladesh opening its flagship outlet in September 06, 2006 at Gulshan. Transcom Foods Limited - a subsidiary of Bangladesh's leading business group Transcom operates KFC in Bangladesh. Besides KFC, Transcom Foods Limited is also the franchisee of Pizza Hut which is the first ever-international restaurant chain commenced business in Bangladesh market

KFC celebrated its first Anniversary on 6th September 2007. To mark this splendid occasion, a program was held at its Gulshan outlet Representatives from all the leading dailies, dignitaries and a host of guests took part in the daylong celebration.

On this momentous occasion, KFC expressed its deep gratitude to all its loyal customers and well-wishers. The champion brand also believes, without the enthusiastic support of the customers, it couldn't have come this far where it's now.

To comment on the occasion Mr. Akku Chowdhury, Executive Director, Transcom Foods Limited adds, "To us KFC is not just about serving great food & delicacies. Since our first day, the service, quality, hygiene and safety standard has been the number one focus point for us and we are happy that we could deliver the international service coupled with great ambience. I express my heartfelt gratitude to our customers and extend my sincere thanks to all my colleagues at KFC for their outstanding contribution to make KFC Gulshan an exemplary restaurant among country's burgeoning food business."

Workshop on Energy for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

On 11 September, a Half-day workshop on "Energy for Millennium Development Goals", was held at Seminar Room, LGED-RDEC Bhaban, Agargaon. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in cooperation with Power Division, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MoPEMR) organized it

Speakers were Dr. M. Fouzul Kabir Khan, Secretary, Power Division, MoPEMR, Mr. Larry Maramis, Deputy Country Director, UNDP, Prof. M. Rezwan Khan, Vice Chancellor, United International University, Dr. Abul Barkat, Professor of Economics, University of Dhaka, Mr. B. D. Rahamatullah, Director (Training), Rural Electrification Board, Ms. Shireen Kamal Sayeed, Assistant Country Director, UNDP

The MDGs provide concrete, time-bound objectives for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 - income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion and lack of infrastructure and shelter - while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.

Even though none of the MDG explicitly refers to energy, it was recognized by the countries in the MDG+5 global meeting that improved energy services - including modern cooking fuels, improved cook stoves, increased sustainable biomass production and expended access to electricity and mechanical power - are necessary for meeting all the goals. The link between energy services, poverty reduction and MDGs was also explicitly identified by the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI).

Workshop on Violence agaist women & children

UNICEF and Centre for Women Journalists, Bangladesh organized a sharing meeting with women journalists on 10th September at UNICEF office. Custry Mcyver, Chief of Communications of UNICEF inaugurated the workshop. Nasimun Ara Huq, chairperson of Centre for Women Journalists gave her speech about violence against women and children, while Shabnaz Jaherin, child protection officer of UNICEF spoke about the programme of violence against children and women of UNICEF and Arifa S Sharmin, communications officer of UNICEF directed the whole programme.