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August 2023

Learning goes digital on Robi-10 Minute School

Quality education is a major concern for the millions of students and their guardians across Bangladesh. Given the fact that we are moving further into a fiercely competitive world, the need for quality education has become a necessity. However, with the limited education infrastructure and resource persons, it is practically impossible to provide quality education to all corners of the country. Leading mobile phone operator, Robi took it upon itself to address this gap by partnering with the 10 Minute School, an online education platform that specializing in providing

PBL inaugurates Rangpur Medical More Branch

Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) has inaugurated its 445th branch at Medical More in Rangpur having online banking facilities with a view to provide modern banking service. Md. Abdul Halim Chowdhury, Managing Director of Pubali Bank Ltd. formally inaugurated the branch as Chief Guest. Kazi Sayedur Rahman, General Manager of Bangladesh Bank Rangpur Office and Mohammad Ali, Deputy Managing Director & Chief Technical Officer of Pubali bank Ltd. were present as Special Guests. DGM and RM of Rangpur region Hari Bhushan Deb presided over the inaugural ceremony. In his speech Md. Abdul Halim Chowdhury said that Pubali Bank is committed to provide the best & innovative banking services needs of the market in fastest possible time. As a part for providing better services & client’s incre...

IBBL half-yearly business confce concludes

Deposit and investment of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) stood at Tk. 650,000 million and 570,000 million respectively till June 30, 2016 which are 50,000 million and 60,000 million higher than the figure one year ago. The bank’s foreign exchange business stood at tk. 450,000 million including import tk. 170,000 million, export tk.125000 million and remittance tk. 155,000 million during the period. The Bank’s customer base stood at 11.5 million representing 14 % share of the country’s banking customers and 25% of the global Islamic Banking clients. This information was disclosed at half-yearly business development conference of the bank held on Sunday July 24, 2016 at a hotel in Dhaka. Engr. Mustafa Anwar, Chairman of the Bank was present as chief guest in the conference. Pres...

BIAC signs MoU with Dhaka Bank on loan disputes

Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Dhaka Bank Limited (DBL) to assist resolution of commercial and money loan disputes through alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Chief Executive Officer of BIAC Mr. Muhammad A. (Rumee) Ali and Managing Director of DBL, Syed Mahbubur Rahman signed the MoU on behalf of their respective institutions. Senior officials from both the institutions were present during the signing ceremony at DBL Office at Dhaka. PressDSC_0311

Ashok Leyland to set up plants in Bangladesh

Hinduja Group flagship company Ashok Leyland has firmed up its plans to strengthen overseas presence as part of its vision to garner one-third of revenues from exports. The city-based heavy commercial vehicles maker is setting up an assembly facility in Kenya, another one in Bangladesh through a partner and also expanding its UAE unit, Ashok Leyland chief financial officer Gopal Mahadevan said. “We have firmed up our plans to set up assembly plant in Kenya. We are going to invest there. ashokleylandWe will start...

Joint work on quake by BD, Burma, India

India seeks action over crimes against minorities in Bangladesh India women play Bangladesh for spot in SAG football final (Preview) Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh, India voices concern Rs.587 crore for India-Bangladesh rail link: Minister India takes up with Bangladesh IS death threat to Ramakrishna Mission Efforts are on by Indian seismologists and geologists to jointly carry out studies with Bangladesh and Myanmar and form a common geodetic network to verify fresh data and sort out discrepancies over earthquake-related research in the region. In a recent paper in Nature Geoscience, a group of scientists published new evidence of the