The Annual Conference’ 2014 of Peoples Insurance Company Limited has been held recently at Hotel Purbani International in the capital.
The conference was inaugurated by the chairman of the company Engr. M. A. Rashid and attended by Directors Mohamed Ali Hossain, Saiful Arefin Khaled, Jafar Ahmed Patwari and Mohammed Anowarul Haque Chowdhury and Managing Director, Engr. M. H. Khaled . Ex-Chairman, Nazmul Ahsan Khaled and Ex-Sponsor Director, Hasan Ahmed were also present as special Guests.
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Robi Axiata Limited, the fastest growing mobile operator in the country, is organizing its second live music event at the Dhanmondi outlet of the Cream & Fudge ice-cream store.
The live music event, titled “Robi Sound Check @ Cream & Fudge,” will be organized on Thursday, 6 February, at the Dhanmondi Cream & Fudge store from 10pm and will feature Sohini Alam, lead vocalist of Lokkhi Terra.
Robi subscribers will receive a special gift voucher worth BDT 250, redeemabl...
Visitors throng at the pavilion of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) in the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF). Bank officials are providing information of different deposit and investment products and services of the bank and distributing account opening forms to the customers with spot account opening service.
Customers are showing enthusiasm and expressing eagerness about IBBL products. An ATM booth of the Bank has also been set at the pavilion. Clients of the Bank ...
Bangladesh will take advantage of a slump in global prices for wheat by speeding up imports to build state reserves, and soon plans to issue tenders for 100,000 tonnes of the grain, a top procurement official said on Monday.
Such imports are crucial for the South Asian nation to feed its poor and keep domestic prices stable at a time when political turmoil has hit supply chains and government reserves are at five-year lows.
“We are soon going to issue tenders to import 100,000 tonnes of wheat,” Mohammad Badrul Hassan, procurement director in the Directorate General of Food, told Reuters.
“The food scenario is not like that in 2008 when wheat and rice prices surged to record highs ... We can import grain at reasonable pri...
The country's foreign exchange reserves rose to a record $18.12 billion at the end of January from $18.07 billion a month earlier, the central bank said on Monday.
The higher reserves, which stem from a widening current-account surplus, are enough to cover six months of imports. At the end of January 2013, reserves totalled $13.1 billion.
Rising exports and a slowing of imports have helped build the reserves despite a drop in inward remittances as number of Bangladeshis going abroad to work in the Middle East has declined.
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Under the Smile-Brighter program, Dutch-Bangla Bank organized a 2-day long plastic surgery operation campaign at bank’s own cost at 'Yamagata Dhaka Friendship Hospital' in the City for the poor cleft-lipped boys and girls to bring back the endearing smile on their faces.
The two-day operation campaign started on Sunday. A total of 35 boys and girls would be operated upon by an eminent plastic surgeon Dr. Shareef Hasan. K.S. Tabrez, Managing Director of Dutch-Bangla Bank visited the operation camp and inquired about the cleft-lipped pat...
The conference was inaugurated by the chairman of the company Engr. M. A. Rashid and attended by Directors Mohamed Ali Hossain, Saiful Arefin Khaled, Jafar Ahmed Patwari and Mohammed Anowarul Haque Chowdhury and Managing Director, Engr. M. H. Khaled . Ex-Chairman, Nazmul Ahsan Khaled and Ex-Sponsor Director, Hasan Ahmed were also present as special Guests.
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