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July 3, 2023

Bangladeshi in KZN court for kidnapping

Another Bangladeshi citizen has appeared in court for allegedly kidnapping and robbing fellow countrymen. Jahid Jaman, 27, appeared briefly in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court charged with kidnapping businessman Jashid Hoosen Uddin in Northdale on June 22 and with robbing Belayet Hoosen at a shop in Old Greytown Road. jahis jamanIbrahim Miah, a Bangladeshi businessman from Durban, was originally arrested and charged for the kidnapping and robbery, but charges against him were withdrawn last week owing to a lack of evidence. It is alle...

Will Bangladeshis Ever Learn?  

Prof Mahfuz R Chowdhury

Robindra Nath Togore, the great poet-philosopher and Nobel laureate of Bengal once said 'Hey mother Bengal, you gave birth to your 70 million children but forgot to educate or teach them dignity'. Are Bangladeshis victim of this curse? At the time Tagore made the above comment, Bengal was a united province of British India. Besides multiplying the population more than three folds, Bengal is now divided on religious lines. The Hindu dominated western third remained a part of India, and the Muslim dominated two thirds came to form the independent state of Bangladesh in 1971 after twenty four years of bizarre rendezvous with Pakistan. Today Bangladesh is the eighth largest country in population.

Govt releases Tk 8.75b subsidy on RMG exports

Following a request of readymade garment (RMG) exporters for disbursement of cash subsidy by July 10 to enable them to pay the workers’ salary ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the Government of Bangladesh has released an amount of Tk8.75 billion, most of which is for the garment and jute sectors, reports Dhaka Tribune. The amount disbursed by the Ministry of Finance against exports made during the fourth quarter of 2014 includes Tk7.34 billion for RMG and Tk1.37 billion for jute and jute goods. rmgThe disbursement of the five percent cash subsidy was made in acc...

AIBL half yearly business Dev Conference held  

The “Half Yearly Business Development Conference” of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) was held on July 12, 2014 at Head Office of the Bank. 20140712-AIBL_Half Yearly BDC_PressManaging Director of the Bank Md. Habibur Rahman was present as the Chief Guest while Director of the Bank Alhajj Abdul Malek Molla was present as Special Guest. Among others, Deputy Managing Directors Md. Mofazzal Hossain, Kazi Towhidul Alam, Md. Golam Rabbani and Mohammad Abdul Jalil were present on the occasi...

DBBL organizes workshop on money laundering  

Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) organized a day-long workshop on Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing for officials of the Bank. Mr. K. S. Tabrez, Managing Director of the Bank inaugurated the workshop on July 12, 2014 held at the Bank’s Training Wing, Dhaka. image002The workshop aimed at familiarizing the participants with the updated and changed aspects of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing. Different resource persons and anti money laundering experts conducted various sessions in the workshop. In his ad...
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