Airtel ‘Recharge Retailer Kit’ to help Savar victims
Airtel Bangladesh Ltd, the fastest growing telecom operator of the country, has initiated to stand beside the affected people of the disastrous collapse of the eight story commercial building in Savar last year. The Top Team of Airtel Bangladesh handed over ‘Recharge Retailer Kit’ to the Savar tragedy affected people at an event organized in Gulshan area of the capital.
Airtel Bangladesh will be providing 61 Savar tragedy affected people with handsets, connections, recharge load and Airtel branded shop kiosks. Under the plan, the tragedy affected people will be able to provide service as Airtel retailers. The Savar tragedy affected people will also be given appropriate training on how to function as retailer.
IBBL former director Nur Mohammad dies
Nur Mohammad Akon, former alternate director of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) passed away on Wednesday at a CityHospital due to brain sroke (Innalillahi----Raziun). He was 82. He left behind three sons, three daughters a host of relatives and well wishers to mourn his death.
He was the Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd from 1997 to 2003. Prior to this, he served as Chairman of BRTA, Director of General of Postal Department of Bangladesh.
Prof. Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, Chairman and ...
He was the Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd from 1997 to 2003. Prior to this, he served as Chairman of BRTA, Director of General of Postal Department of Bangladesh.
Prof. Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, Chairman and ...
NRBCB, SJIBL distribute clothes among cold-hit people
Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd (SJIBL) and NRB Commercial Bank (NRBCB) have distributed warm clothes among cold-hit people.
SJIBL distributed winter clothes in Tangail. Bank’s Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors Sayed Nurul Arefeen distributed two thousand five hundred blankets among distress people at Tangail Sadar, Alacin, Deldewer, Nagarpur, Korotia and Shafipur area as their part of Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR).
Among others, Md. Abdul Khalek Branch manager of SJIBL Tangail Branch, ABM Mahafuzul Alam, Branch Manager of Shafipur Branch of the bank and Md Mahe Alam Sabu, Vice-Chairman of Nagarpur Upazila Parishad were present on the occasion.
WB predicts GDP growth slow down to 5.7pc
Bangladesh’s economic growth made in October last year remained unchanged as the GDP growth rate will slow down to 5.7 percent against 7.2 percent target in the current fiscal (2013-14) due to political turmoil, says the World Bank (WB).
The WB, an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs, came up with the fresh but similar forecast on Wednesday in Washington, reports UNB.
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Bangladeshi Aam Admi Party, Kejriwal!
The last general election — virtually without any opposition party taking part in it — and corruption have given rise to the demand for an Aam Admi Party-like entity in Bangladesh.
So far, a group of protestors which led the Shahbag movement for secularism and democracy early last year, cyber warriors who supported the Shahbag movement and a retired army officer have made separate moves to create common man’s parties, reports the Hindustantimes.
Recent decline in remittances in Bangladesh
Migrant workers sent $6.77 billion home to Bangladesh in July-December, down 8.41% from the same time a year ago. For the first time in recent memory, Bangladesh has experienced a decline in remittances in the first half of the fiscal year.
There are four factors that can potentially account for the decline in remittances: the stock of Bangladeshi migrants abroad, earnings per migrant worker, their average propensity to save, and their average propensity to remit money home out of those savings.
