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Bank Asia declares 15pc dividend

Bank Asia has declared 15% dividend (10% bonus share and 5% cash dividend) for the year 2014 at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the Bank held today (Tuesday, 31 March, 2015) at Lady’s Club in the capital city Dhaka. AGM-Press-photoMr. A. Rouf Chowdhury, Chairman of the Bank presided over the meeting. With 10% stock dividend, the paid-up capital of the Bank would increase to Tk. 8.39 billion. Vice Chairmen Mr. Mohd. Safwan Choudhury and Mr. A.M. Nurul Islam, Chairman of Executive Committee Mr. Rumee A. Hossain, Chai...

ICAB members’ confce on audit

Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank Md. Abul Quasem as Chief Guest is addressing the Members’ Conference on “Audit of Banks and Financial Institutions” organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) at its auditorium on Monday, 30 March 2015. Seminar PictureKeynote presenter Sabbir Ahmed FCA, Partner, Hoda Vasi Chowdhury & Co., Chartered Accountants, ICAB Vice Presidents AF Nesaruddin FCA, Kamrul Abedin FCA , Past President & Session Chairman Abdul Hafiz Choudhury FCA and Council Member Gopal Cha...

BIA holds basic course on non-life insurance

Mr. Sheikh Kabir Hossain, President, Bangladesh Insurance Association(BIA) inaugurated the 17th Basic Course on “Non-Life insurance” Organized by Bangladesh Insurance Association on 30th March, 2015 at BIA Conference Room. 35 (thirty five) officers from 19 non-life insurance companies are participating in the course. BIA@@@@Mr. Sheikh Kabir Hossain, in his inaugural speech exhorted the participants to take up the course seriously to build up their career in the industry which needed a large number of professionally qualified manpower. This trai...

Govt urged to end onslaught on dissent, restore democracy

Global civil society alliance, CIVICUS, and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) have expressed grave concern over the unabated incursions on fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms in Bangladesh amid the on-going political violence in the country. human rights Bangladesh“Bangladesh is currently experiencing a serious constitutional crisis through clampdowns on the right to express democratic dissent,” said Mandeep Tiwana, Head of Policy and Research at CIVICUS. “Political repression and attacks on inde...

What young people want from dev implementers

“I’ve been doing my work for six years now but I’ve never been approached by an agency looking at development.” [caption id="attachment_14468" align="alignleft" width="300"]young people The 2015 Commonwealth Youth Award Winners from left to right: Gulalai Ismael, Julius Shirima, Nolana Lynch and Brianna Frueann. Photo by: The Commonwealth[/caption] Julius Shirima, 25, is clutching two Commonwealth Youth Awards at a ceremony in Royal Over-Seas House in London organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat. His youth entrepreneurship organization a...

Modi’s popularity in rural India punctured by discontent, suicides

More than a dozen debt-laden farmers have committed suicide in recent weeks in India, and discontent in many rural areas against government policies is turning into anger against Prime Minister Narendra Modi less than a year after he swept into office. pm-narendra-modi_650x400_51424803339Unseasonal storms have badly damaged the winter crop in large parts of the fertile northern plains, most likely contributing to the suicides, and villagers have blamed Modi for not stepping in to help th...
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