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Bangladesh has much to celebrate, much to do in fight against poverty

Jim Yong Kim

It may come as a surprise to some that I will celebrate the international day to end global poverty in Bangladesh - a country often associated with extreme poverty. Born from the ashes of its war for independence in 1971, Bangladesh has a history of famines and cyclones that have claimed countless lives. 2016-10-17-1476715372-1538100-world_bank_bangladesh_final_edit_0001

British Council celebrates World Sight Day 2016

The British Council in partnership with Standard Chartered bank has celebrated World Sight Day 2016 recently at British Council, Fuller Road office. World Sight Day is a special annual day of awareness that is celebrated around the world each year to focus on blindness and vision impairment. To celebrate this day British Council had arranged a Young Learners’ Art Competition with this year’s Theme “Stronger Together”. Around 2500 kids (aged between 5 -14) from all over Bangladesh took part in the art bc_world-sight-day-3

Meghna Bank inks deal with Ocean Paradise

Recently Meghna Bank Limited has signed an Agreement with Ocean Paradise in its Head Office at Suvastu Imam Square, Gulshan, Dhaka. ocean-paradise-finalUnder this agreement Meghna Bank Credit Card holders can avail Upto 50% Discount on all Kinds of room rent & 10% discount on food to MGBL credit Card holders. Mr. Mohammed Nurul Amin, Managing Director & CEO of Meghna Bank & Senior Executives and Mr. Khairul Anam, Senior Manager, Sales & Business Development were p...

Don’t provide info to fraudsters: BTRC

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Monday issued a notice asking all mobile phone subscribers not to provide personal and biometric SIM registration-related information to fraudsters seeking over phone. According to the notice, fraud/criminal gangs are taking away customers’ personal and biometric SIM-related information, and PINs of mobile financial accounts, including bKash, through making phone calls and sending SMSs in the name of BTRC officials and different btrcmobile phone operators, reports UNB. ...

WB looks for ways to increase funding in Bangladesh: Kim

Visiting World Bank (WB) president Jim Yong Kim on Monday said the bank was now looking aggressively for increasing its funding to support Bangadesh. He said the World Bank was no more involved with the construction of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge but it understood the importance of the bridge, reports New Age. The government is constructing the bridge on own funding after the global bank cancelled 1.2 wbbilllion dollar loan citing conspiracies of corruption in tender process. Kim said the bank preferred continuing discussion on it...

Stocks suffer from extensive price fall

Stock market suffered extensive price fall on Monday as investors were selling shares for profit booking. The falling price pulled the price indices down at both Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). At DSE, only 93 securities finished higher when 183 issues across the board incurred loss. Similarly, 143 issues closed lower at CSE against only 74 advancing securities. Like previous trading sessions, majority of the issues from large-cap group suffered loss. dse-logo_2Due to the wide range pri...
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