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RU students protest police firing: Punishment demanded

 The students of Rajshahi University (RU) staged sit in at the university administration building premises protesting the police firing on them and demanded exemplary punishment to the involved police members. Earlier, on Friday law enforcers fired rubber bullets on the agitate students who put barricade on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway protesting their fellow Sabrina Jahan’s death in road crash. ru Sabrina Jahan, a second year student of Sociology ...

Smartphone app to give earthquake warning

A smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro. Researchers from the University of California showed off the project this week at a conference on how to use technology to ward off natural disasters. The app is based on technology used in an early warning system prepared by a team under Professor Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. California has already embraced the concept of an early warning network, with Governor Jerry Brown signing a bill in September mandating the creation of a system.

IBBL Board meeting held

A meeting of the Board of Directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) was held on Saturday at the Board Room of Islami Bank Tower in the city. Bank’s chairman of the Board of Directors, Prof Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher presided over the meeting, says a press release. Board MeetingEngr. Eskander Ali Khan, representative of Al-Rajhi Co. for Ind. & Trade, KSA, Md. Abul Hossain, Representative of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, Dr. Areef Suleman, Representative ...

FIs should focus on green business in lending policies

Banks and non-banking financial institutions should focus on Green Business while sanctioning loan to protect the environment from pollution, said speakers in a conference in Dhaka on Friday. Speakers in the ‘SR Asia Second International Conference 2013’ on ‘responsible business conduct to safeguard the people’s issues and environment by managing hazardous waste’ urged the government to formulate environment-friendly policies in this respect. SR Asia, CIRDAP and BangladeshBankTrainingAcademy jointly organised the two-day conference. green-business

Taka stable against Dollar last week

remmitanceThe local currency maintained stable tone last week against the greenback and traded around 77.75 levels. We feel the market will see the same tone next week as well. The average daily inter-bank USD/BDT transaction volume was about USD 56.58 million against around USD 26.71 million of the week before, reports FE. Most of the banks kept their published foreign exchange rates unchanged this week. The USD/BDT selling rates for importers of major foreign and private banks wa...

GO-NGO partnership in Bangladesh a good example in combating graft

Building a sound government-NGO partnership in combating graft is a good practice  in Bangladesh that can be replicated in many other countries, speakers observed at a function in Panama City. The special event on Bangladesh organised on the sidelines of the 5th Conference of State Parties (COSP-5) of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) being held this week, according to a Foreign Ministry release issued on Friday. stop corruptionThe event titled ‘Opportunities and Challenges in Government-Civil Society Eng...
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