Mahtab Uddin Ahmed will take over the charge of Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Robi Axiata Limited on Tuesday. He will be succeeding Supun Weerasinghe who had served the company since January 2014.
Supun will return to Dialog Axiata Plc (Dialog), Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider as its Group CEO effective 1 January 2017.
The changeover in leadership marks the culmination of the succession programme planned and executed over the past several years centred on the Accelerated Leadership Development Programme of the Axiata Group. Mahtab’s appointment as MD and CEO came as part of Robi’s ongoing efforts towards developing and promoting local Bangladeshi talent.
Commenting on Mahtab’s succession, Axiata Group Berhad’s President and Group CEO Tan ...
Mr. Mahbubur Rahman, Chairman of Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) and Mr. Pasit Asawawattanaporn, Managing Director of Thailand Arbitration Center (THAC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on behalf of their respective organizations and exchanged the MoU in the office of THAC, Bangkok, Thailand on 31st October 2016.

This MoU is intended to explore areas for co-operation in respect of the use of facilities and services of both the centres on alternative dispute resolution (ADR), jointly organizing t...
For the second time British American Tobacco Bangladesh secured the first position of the Institute of Cost Management Accounts of Bangladesh “ICMAB Best Corporate Awards – 2015” in the category of multinational company.
BATB achieved this award for accountability, business success, management efficiency and

practicing good governance. ICMAB is a professional training academy under ministry of commerce, which has been patronizing this award since 2004.
Recently in an award giving ceremony at Sonargoan hotel, ...
Veet is the world’s leading brand of women’s hair removal products. Its brand stands for beauty, care and feminine self-expression. Over the years, Veet Bangladesh has been able to uphold this image with massive projects such as the “Veet Channel I Top Model” and most recently the “Veet Girls on the go” contest. Following on from these successful initiatives, the

market leading brand is about to embark again on something truly unique in partnership with celebrity style icon Ummey Roman Ahmed Shishir.
Recently, Shis...
By government accounts, four foreign-backed cellphone operators owe $500 million to Bangladesh in unpaid taxes. By the companies’ accounts, the figure is closer to $50 million — if it isn’t zero.
As the legal row drags into its fourth year without resolution, telecommunications analysts warn it is putting pressure on the industry that is Bangladesh’s single largest source of revenue, providing $1.43 billion in tax revenues in 2015.
Government regulators say the companies broke the law by selling old SIM cards without properly notifying regulators, and then failed to pay taxes on those sales from July 2009 and

Bank Asia provided a day-long training on “Prevention of Money Laundering & Combating Financing on Terrorism” to its 47 (forty-seven) officers in an effort to improve their professional efficiency.
Mr. Aminul Islam, Additional Managing Director of the Bank, inaugurated the training at Bank

Asia Institute for Training & Development, Rangs Bhaban, Tejgaon, Dhaka on Saturday (29 October, 2016).
Mr. Nurun Nabi, Joint Director, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit ( BFIU), Mr. Murshid Al- Amin, SVP & Head of AMLD of B...