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July 2023

Ibrahim Khaled joins PBL as Independent Director

Prominent banker, former Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank and Economist Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled has joined the Board of Directors of Pubali Bank Limited as an Independent Director. He was the Managing Director of Pubali Bank Limited from 2001 to 2006. Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled has been associated with the banking system of Bangladesh for nearly six decades. He has also served as the Managing Director of Bangladesh Krishi Bank, Agrani Bank and Sonali Bank. Later he was the Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank from 1998 to 2001. He also serv...

Enough Educated

M A Hossain

On 28 November '20, a 17 days old infant's dead body was found in the pond at Bagerhat in Bangladesh. Latter on police arrested the parent in connection to such bone-chilling incident and primarily parent confessed about their involvement to the police. Media became vibrant to criminalize this poor parent. But that's not the dead-end of this story. The parent is very poor and the infant was suffering from severe cardiac and kidney problems. It was going almost beyond to do anything further for their beloved child (radio today, 89.6fm). Now, I will share two of my personal experiences with my readers. Due to my professional reason, I was posted at outskirts of Dhaka. On my daughter's 2nd birthday party, I was wel...

Together …. now, let’s wake up against violence, rape

In today's world, equality between men and women is one of the ways to build a modern and prosperous state. There is an ambiguity in our society regarding the explanation of egalitarian society. At the same time, the people of the world have received the light of civilization. But it is very unfortunate that even at such a juncture, we have to think about inhumane issues like violence against women. A lot of people still treat women as objects of sexual desire! There is still a lot of narrowness in our mentality. That is to think of women as a human being! It's a big kind of mental shortcoming for us! Women's rights mean human rights, if women's rights are not well established, then human rights will not be established and this simple rationality that many of us show our unwillingness t...

BASIC Bank launches contactless Credit Card

State owned BASIC Bank Limited has launched dual currency contactless credit card. Customers will get privilege of financial transaction at home and abroad using this card. Professor Dr. Abul Hashem, Chairman of the bank inaugurated the VISA credit card as chief guest through video conferencing on Sunday, December 06, 2020. The launching ceremony was held at bank’s head office, Dhaka. Md. Rafiqul Alam, Managing director of the bank presided over the ceremony. Among others- Md. Razib Parvez and Md. Rafiqul Islam - members ...

A fraction of CoU teachers announce counter election commission

A number of teachersof Comilla University Teachers Association announced a counter election commission, alleging arbitrariness and violation of the constitution, three days after the executive committeehad formedaCommission in Executive Council-2021 election. The commission was introduced on Thursday evening by a press release, signed by the executive council-2020 vice president Amdadul Hoque and General Secretary Swapan Chandra Majumder. Meanwhile, the executive body has protested the lately commission in a press release, signed by eight out of 15 executive membe...

Shari`ah compliance webinar at IBBL Noakhali Zone

Noakhali Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organised a webinar on ‘Compliance of Shari`ah in Banking Sector’ recently. Md. Quamrul Hasan, Director of the bank addressed the program as chief guest. Md. Omar Faruk Khan, Additional Managing Director of the bank addressed the program as special guest. Moulana Mohiuddin Rabbani, Member of IBBL Shari`ah Supervisory Committee addressed the webinar as chief discussant. Mahmudur Rahman, Head of Noakhali Zone presided over the program while Md. Shamsuddoha, Executive Vice President addressed ...