Bangladesh has earned an “insignificant” progress in its fight against corruption in the current year, according to a survey report globally released yesterday by the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International.
Bangladesh ranked the 16
th most corrupt country in the world in the graft index, scored 27 points out of 100 this year, one point higher than the last year when it became 13
th.
Chairperson of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) trustee board, Sultana Kamal, however, termed it insignificant, as the country’s position still remains quite low.
Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh has been awarded the prestigious “Bank of the year” award at The Banker Awards 2013.
The award was handed over to Jim McCabe, CEO of Standard Chartered Bangladesh, at a grand gala dinner programme held at The Intercontinental Park Lane Hotel, London on November 28, said a press release on Tuesday.
While receiving the award, McCabe said, “We’re delighted to receive this award in two consecutiv...
The International Cricket Council says it will monitor political violence in Bangladesh ahead of next year’s ICC World Twenty20 in the troubled country but is “happy” for now with arrangements.
An ICC official said there would be a “continual review” of planning for the March-April tournament in view of the turmoil that has left dozens of people dead in street protests around the country, reports AFP.
“This is a situation that we have to consistently monitor,” Chris Tetley, an ICC event...
From the slums of Bangladesh to the fashion houses of the world - luxury leather goods from Dhaka generate sales of more than $1 billion a year.
There are more than 200 tanneries in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, employing more than 30,000 workers.
Every day, the tanneries discharge 21,000 cubic metres of toxic waste into gutters that flow into Dhaka’s main river.
In 2009, the Bangladeshi High Court asked the government to relocate the tanneries to an area ou...
Remittances sent home by Bangladeshis working overseas dropped nearly 5 percent to $1.05 billion in November from a year earlier, the central bank said on Monday, slipping for the fourth straight month.
Millions of expatriate Bangladeshis remitted $5.55 billion from July to November, the first five months of the current financial year, down 9 percent from the same period in the previous year.
Strong remittances in recent years have helped build foreign exchange reserves to more than $17 billion.
Regional Attach, Michael Brown representing the Drug Enforcement Administration and Additional Secretary (Political) Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed signed the MoC on behalf of their respective sides here on Tuesday.
This MoC is intended to increase cooperation aimed at combating organised...
