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August 16, 2023

Harry Potter play gets rave reviews

Harry Potter’s stage debut got a standing ovation from a packed theatre audience in a new London play that imagines the fictional boy wizard as a grown-up father of three, British media reported on Wednesday. “Judging by the whooping and cheering, nobody was disappointed,” Clare Fitzimons wrote in The Mirror after the first showing of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at the Palace Theatre. “It was phenomenal, it really was. It lived up to all the hype,” said one fan interviewed by the harryBBC, while another in a Potter-st...

Victorious Clinton claims historic ‘milestone’ for women

Hillary Clinton declared a historic victory for women Tuesday as she grasped the Democratic party nomination and the chance to become America’s first female president. “Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone,” an ecstatic Clinton told roaring supporters in New York, “the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee.” The former first lady took a monumental step back toward the White House by winning New Jersey, one of six states voting in the last major date of the 2016 primary calendar. The triumph came almost eight years to the day since Clinton’s first bid for the Oval Office bid was spectacularly thwarted by a charismatic young senator called Barack Obama. Two terms later, the 68-year-old declared another glass ceiling broken and set ...

US envoy calls on BB governor

United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat today paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir at his office in the city. Us envoy"Bernicat met BB governor at noon. It was a courtesy call," chief spokesperson of Bangladesh Bank Subhankar Saha told BSS. Saha, also an executive director of the bank said, "It was the first meeting of Bernicat with Fazle Kabir as Governor of Bangladesh Bank." Senior officials of Bangladesh Bank attended the meeting, he added.

67.5pc budget for non-dev expenditure frustrating

The International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB), one of the leading organizations of the business leaders and civil society members, organized a press conference on “Reaction of IBFB on National Budget 2016-17” on June 8, 2016 at the VIP Lounge of the National Press Club, Dhaka. Mr. Hafizur Rahman Khan, President of IBFB, presented the IBFB’s reactions at the press conference, where, among others, Mr. Humayun Rashid, IBFB Vice President (Finance), Ms. Lutfunnisa Saudia Khan, IBFB Director; Mr. M. S. Siddiqui, IBFB Director; Mr. Md. Ali Deen, IBFB Director; Mr. Md. Ershad Hussain Rana, IBFB Director; Mr. Syed Mustafizur Rahman, IBFB Director, Dr. Md. Mozibur Rahman, IBFB Director and former Chairman of Bangladesh Tariff Commission; Dr. Md. Abdul Mazid, Chairman of IBFB Finance Comm...

Danish Foods, Robi sign corporate deal

Danish Foods Limited has recently subscribed to Robi’s corporate solution. In this connection, Robi’s Managing Director & CEO, Supun Weerasinghe and Danish Foods’s Managing Director, Aziz Al Mahmood signed a corporate agreement on behalf of their respective organizations. As Robi-Danish signingper the agreement, Danish Foods Limited will enjoy special mobile based enterprise solutions, call rate, close user group facility and many more value added services including internet. Danish Foods’s Chief ...

Air Asia signs deal with Bank Asia

In presence of President & Managing Director of Bank Asia Mr. Md. Mehmood Husain, the Bank’s Deputy Managing Director Mr. Mohammed Zahirul Alam and Air Asia Director and CEO Mr. Morshedul Alam Chaklader are seen exchanging a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Airasiaat the Corporate Office of the Bank at Purana Paltan in the capital city Dhaka recently. Deputy Managing Director Mian Quamrul Hasan Chowdhury and Head of Retail Banking of the Bank Mr. Md. Ariful Islam Chowdhury and Directors of Air Asia Mr. Md. Atiqur...
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