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April 2025

ELF holds community wellbeing ride

To honour and support Dhaka’s bike-riding community, ELF Lubricants, the French performance lubricant brand from TotalEnergies, recently hosted a community wellbeing ride for the city’s motor enthusiasts.
The event, titled ELF Morning Ride, began at the Japan Parts showroom in Tejgaon and concluded at the Kanchon Bridge area of 300 feet, bringing together Pathao riders, community riders, media professionals, ELF customers, fans, and other stakeholders.
Ride-sharing platform Pathao collaborated with E...

Pubali Bank holds workshop on cyber security

The ICT Operation Division of Pubali Bank PLC recently arranged a Virtual Workshop on “Cyber Security Awareness”.
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Mohammad Ali, Managing Director & CEO of Pubali Bank, inaugurated the Workshop as the Chief Guest and delivered a speech on an overview of the Security Roadmap of Pubali Bank.
Deputy Managing Directors- Mohammad Esha, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Ahmed Enaye...

EC prepares as election festivity approaching

As the nation is set for an election festivity with the 13th National Parliament elections drawing near, the Election Commission (EC), in full swing, is working to complete all necessary preparations for participatory, free, fair, and neutral polls.
                     
The extensive administrative framework, from the capital to the grassroots, has reached its final stage of readiness as the EC said, “All arrangeme...

Tarique rejects any idea limiting women progress

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman today said that empowerment of women isn’t only fairness, but also part of the cognitive economy.
"We reject any regressive idea that limits women’s potential. Empowering women through childcare, equal pay, and workplace safety is not only about fairness, but also a way of a smart economy," he said in a Facebook post.
Tarique Rahman said, “What happens when a young mother leaves her job, finding no other way to take care of her c...

Sign of recovery in economy amid forex reserve rebound

Bangladesh’s economy is showing signs of steady recovery and growing confidence, marked by a significant rebound in foreign exchange reserves and an unprecedented surge in remittance inflows.
This consistent improvement suggests improved external sector stability, easing pressure on the balance of payments, and the effectiveness of central bank policies aimed at maintaining exchange rate stability.
Foreign exchange reserves, according to Bangladesh Bank data released Wednesday, currently stand at US$32.15 bil...

Trump calls meeting with Xi ‘a great success’

US President Donald Trump described his meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping as a "great success" and said he would head to China in April for new talks.
"I'll be going to China in April and he'll be coming here sometime after that, whether it's in Florida, Palm Beach or Washington, DC," Trump told reporters on Air Force One.
"A lot of things we brought to finalisation" at Thursday's talks in Busan, South Korea, added Trump, praising Xi as a "tremendous leader of a very powerful country".
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