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UCB holds managers’ conference       

A managers’ conference of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) was held on Saturday (10 may 2014) at the Learning & Development Centre auditorium of the bank. The conference was presided by the Managing Director of UCB Mr. Muhammed Ali. IMG_7366Among others the Additional Managing Director Mr. M. Shahidul Islam was present at the meeting. Moreover, Deputy Managing Directors Mr. Mohammad Abu Abdullah, Mr. Md. Tariqul Azam and Mr. Mohammad Shawkat Jamil along with other senior officials and different managers of UCB were also present at the ...

Airtel introduces airCredit – the prepaid loan service    

Airtel Bangladesh Limited, the fastest growing telecom operator of the country, is introducing a new service named airCredit which will allow customers to recharge their mobile account balance on credit. Airtel is helping its prepaid customers to take a sundry credit/loan for emergency situations when customers run out of their account balance,  or cannot recharge due to geographical constraints or inadequate amount of money, or is facing time constraint; etc. Valued customers of Airtel will be able to use the loans for recharging their main account where they will be allowed BDT 5 and BDT 10 loans.

Sonadia deep seaport a threat to spoon-billed sandpiper

The spoon-billed sandpiper, a critically endangered species of migratory birds, will face extinction losing their habitats if the government establish a deep seaport at the Sonadia Island, as planned, UNB reports. “There are only about 200 pairs of the critically endangered spoon-billed sandpipers around the world right now while about 50 pairs of spoon-billed sandpipers was seen in Sonadia Island last winter,” birds expert of IUCN Bangladesh ABM Sarowar Alam Dipu told UNB. spoon-billedsandpiperHe said this particu...

Workers at high risk for toxic chemicals

Work forces of Bangladesh are at high risk due to use of toxic chemicals at almost every workplace, said experts. “In our country indiscriminate use of chemicals at almost every workplaces is a common phenomenon . hundreds of people die annually due to their hazardous work particularly in ship- breaking, tanneries, chemical industries and farming which are in the top death ranks,” said National expert on Chemical Safety Dr Shahriar Hossain. safety firstAccording to a survey conducted by Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Env...

Job scope for 15,000 Bangladeshis in British curry industry

The 3.6 billion-pound British curry industry, mostly owned and run by Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, has a shortage of some 15,000 skilled chefs and managers, said a successful restaurateur, insisting the Bangladesh government on grabbing the opportunity, reports BSS. A leader of the British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BBCCI) already dispatched a proposal to the British government requesting to pave the way for fulfilling the requirement of manpower shortage from Bangladesh. “We’ve, of late, submitted a comprehensive proposal with requirement of around 15,000 jobs to the British Prime Minister . easing immigration rules got paramount importance in the proposal,” Enam Ali, MBE, a Bangladeshi living in Britain and director of BBCCI, told BSS here today.

Freelancers to Entrepreneurs development Program from May 11  

The government is going to launch formally ‘Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programme’ in all 64 districts simultaneously on May 11 aimed at developing entrepreneurship on outsourcing. Centrally, Post, Telecom and Communication Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddique is expected to inaugurate the programme at 11am at the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division, official sources said. As part of the launching programme, Deputy Commissioners (DCs) will open the logo and make presentation at their respective office in presence of journalists, mentors and persons related to IT development, reports BSS.
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