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JBF organizes Qirat Competition

With the initiative and finance by Jamuna Bank Foundation (JBF) a discussion meeting on “Significance of the Holy Ramadan, Holy lives of the Prophets and Qirat Competition among the offspring of the Employees of Jamuna Bank Limited” was held at IDEB, Bhaban Dhaka recently. Al-Haj Nur Mohammed, Chairman, Jamuna Bank Foundation & Chairman of the Executive 5R (2)committee of the board graced the occasion as Chief Guest and distribute prize among the winners. Shafiqul Alam, Managing Director & CEO, Jamuna Bank Limited presi...

Meghna Bank, WU hold training on remittance

Recently Meghna Bank Limited and Western Union (WU) jointly organized a training program on 'Foreign Remittance Payment' at Mgbl Training Center, Gulshan, Dhaka. Mr. Mohammed Nurul Amin, Managing Director & CEO of the Bank inaugurated the training. Training Program on Foreign Remittance Payment FinalMr. Protik Karim, Deputy Managing Director, Mr. A.F. Shabbir Ahmad, SEVP & Head of Operations and other senior officials of the Ban...

South Asia continues to remain polio free: WHO

The South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), comprising of 11 countries including Bangladesh, continues to remain polio free since the last case was reported in West Bengal, India, in January 2011. All countries in the Region continue to maintain a very high vigil for poliovirus detection and environmental surveillance - collection of samples from sewage - is being conducted regularly whoin India, said a WHO statement today. It said prompt and adequate response to vaccine-derived polio viruses (VDPVs) detect...

Bangladesh project exposes India EXIM Bank to high risk

According to the report released by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) on Friday the Bangladesh-India Maitree project could effectively end up in a financial mess. The Coal based power plant proposed to be built near the city of Khulna, close to the Sundarbans mangrove forest, is a joint venture between India and Bangladeshs state owned entities. The project is heavily subsidized, exposes investors, taxpayers and consumers to high risk and is a potential stranded asset in the making. We examined the Rampal coal power project on parameters such as funding, investment, cost of production, supply of fuel as well as risk due to extreme weather events. The project fails on a

Dahala Khagrabari!

Dahala Khagrabari is a geopolitical anomaly. It's a piece of India that until very recently was completely surrounded by a piece of Bangladesh, which itself was completely surrounded by India, which was again completely surrounded by Bangladesh. An enclave is a piece of one country's territory which is entirely surrounded by another country's territory, and the India-Bangladesh border was filled with them before 2015, when they were eliminated by a treaty between the two countries. A second-order enclave is an enclave inside an enclave, and the world has a handful of them. But in the history of the world

‘Hack the Pentagon’ reveals 138 security flaws

Hackers invited by the US government as part of a pilot program to find flaws with five Pentagon websites discovered 138 security vulnerabilities, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. The “Hack the Pentagon” event, the first “bug bounty” in the history of the federal government, attracted 1,410 computer-savvy Americans, according to the Defense Department. The program cost $150,000, with about half of that going to hackers, reports AFP. “It’s not a small sum, but if we had gone through the normal process of hiring an outside firm to Pantagon
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