Nutan Bangla Dot Com, a joint-venture project of Internet service provider Global Information Network and software manufacturer Soft Valley Private Limited, introduced the new e-mail service.

Some former students of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) working at Nutan Bangla Dot Com developed the new service.

With this, it would now be possible to send e-mail in Bangla to any Unicode-supported computer at any part of the world using the nutanbangla website http://www.nutanbangla.com or http://mail.nutanbangla.com

The e-mail service was launched through sending e-mails to different newspaper and institute offices using the nutanbagla website from the server room of Global Information Network office at Southland Centre at Agrabad at 5:00pm.

Managing Director of Global Information Network Engineer Ali Ashraf said that the new service would help one to send e-mail written with Bangla fonts directly without going for file attachment.

The recipients on the other ends would not require any software of Bangla fonts like 'Bijoy' to open and read the e-mails, he said.

"We used the UTF-8 character format in this site so that any UTF-8 supported web mail reader can open and read the mails," Ali Ashraf said.

"Anyone can use the site free of cost until April 30 this year and after that we might think of extending the time," he added.