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Meeting on BB heist with NY Fed postponed

A meeting between Bangladesh central bank officials and the New York Federal Reserve scheduled for this week to speed up efforts to recover $81 million stolen from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Fed has been postponed, officials in Dhaka said. A four-member Bangladesh Bank team headed by deputy governor Mohammad Razee Hassan, who also heads its financial intelligence unit, was to meet Fed officials in New York on July 15. bb“We are in talks with the Fed and hoping that the meeting will take place anytime at the end of this month ...

Potential earthquake could jeopardize millions in BD

A potentially giant earthquake may be building up beneath Bangladesh and eastern India and could endanger as many as 140 million people, a study said on Monday. The earthquake is not imminent but inevitable as sections of the earth’s crust press against one another, according to the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. No estimate on when such a quake may occur is possible without additional research, the earth hourstudy’s lead author Michael Steckler, a geophysicist at Columbia University in New York, ...

Best Electronics, Meghna Bank sign deal

Recently Meghna Bank Limited has signed an Agreement with Best Electronics in Dhaka.  Syed Asaduzzaman, Managing Director of Best Electronics Ltd is handing over the Agreement to Mr. Mohammad Imdadul Islam, SEVP & Head of Retail, SME & Other Finance Division of Meghna Bank. Agreement Between Best Eletronics & Meghna Bank_01Under this agreement Meghna Bank Card holders can avail 5% Discount on all types of Products at BEST ELECTRONIC...

2 int’l meetings switched from Bangladesh after attack

An Asia-Pacific money laundering group has moved its meeting out of Bangladesh citing security concerns, officials said on Monday, 10 days after militants stormed a cafe in an upscale part of the capital and killed 20 people, mostly foreigners. Some 350 foreign delegates had been expected in Dhaka to attend the July 24-28 annual meeting of The Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering that seeks to pool efforts to fight illegal money transfers and terrorist financing. The group said in a statement on its website that the meeting will now be held in September in the United States. The exact location will be decided later. It gave no reason.

US offers counterterrorism expertise for Bangladesh

The United States on Sunday offered Bangladesh Washington’s expertise in building Bangladesh’s counterterrorism capabilities. The offer came from US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs Nisha nisha biswalDesai Biswal who came to Dhaka in the wake of the Gulshan cafe attack that left 28 people killed. “We will continue our assistance in combatting the global threat of terrorism that our countries both confront,” she said after her official talks. She met foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali ...

Shah Rukh Khan tight lipped on Bangladesh Eid attack

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan chose to stay tight lipped on Bangladesh Eid attack, saying he does not want any controversy out of it. SRK’s remarks on intolerance had landed him in trouble last year after he had said that there was ‘extreme intolerance in the country’. “Last year media asked me something simple on my birthday and it became an issue. I did not shah rukh khanenjoy my birthday and I hold that against everyone,” Shah Rukh told reporters here yesterday on occasion of Eid. “Maine kuch aachi, sharif baa...
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