A two-day Business Development Conference 2016 of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was inaugurated on January 15, 2016 at a local hotel. Presided over by Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director of the Bank, Engr. Mustafa Anwar, Chairman and Engr Md. Eskander Ali Khan, Chairman, Executive Committee addressed the inaugural ceremony as the Chief guest and Special guest repectlively.
Md. Abul Hossain, Director and Prof. Abu Bakr Rafique, Member Secretary of Shariah
Supervisory Committee of the Bank were present on the occasion. Muhammad Abul Bashar, Md. Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, FCA, Md. Mahbub-ul-Alam, Rafi Ahmed Begh, Abdus Sadeq...
An agreement has been signed between Shahjalal Islami Bank and Limited (SJIBL) and Election Commission Bangladesh (EC) on 14
th January 2016 at Election Commission office in Agargoan, Dhaka.
Mr. Farman R Chowdhury the Managing Director of Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd. and Mr. Syed
Md. Musa Director (operation) of National Identity Registration wing signed on the agreement on behalf of their respective organization.
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A day-long training for new women entrepreneurs was held at Al-Arafah Islami Bank Chittagong Zone recently.
Executive Vice President and Head of AIBL Chittagong Zone Md. Mujibul Quader inaugurated the Workshop as Chief Guest.
Senior Principal Officer of SME Division of the Bank Sheikh Asadul Haque was present as chief speaker. Women entrepreneurs form 15 branches under Chittagong Zone participated in the workshop.
I spent the past week in Bangladesh, visiting the countryside on a fascinating and heartening trip from the country’s massive capital, Dhaka, to the south, a region being hammered by climate change. I came to give some speeches and took the opportunity to see for myself how foreign aid and local sweat and equity are being used to fight the rising seas in a country so low that 30 million people may become refugees. For them to secure a livelihood in their home places, the developed countries need to be engaged, with our resources, our hands, and our minds. We simply cannot afford not to be here.
After being asked for years to come, I’d finally made the trip to attend the 2nd annual Gobeshona conference, a gathering of researchers seeking to understand the reality and best p...
The goverment is aiming to enact a controversial digital security law aimed at tackling digital crimes. But experts fear the proposed legislation could also be used to muzzle freedom of expression in the polarized nation.
“With increased digital services, crimes not only occur online but also through digital services. So we are planning to enact a more elaborate act to tackle all sorts of digital crimes.” These are the words of Bangladesh’s State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak, speaking on January 12 at a press conference in the capital Dhaka about
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Bangladesh Bank (BB), the central bank of the country has cut its benchmark interest rate by half percentage point – the first move since 2013.
The BB cut its repo rate from 7.25 per cent to 6.75 per cent. The reverse repo rate was also cut to 4.75 per cent from 5.25 per cent. The bank last changed rates in February 2013.
In a monetary policy statement at the end of last year, the bank had said it was considering easing.
