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Bank Asia Agent Banking booths open in Magura

Bank Asia opened an agent banking booth at Bagerhat Bazar of Beroil in Magura Sadar on 19th December, 2014 in a move to financial inclusion of rural people. PressProf Dr. M. S. Akber, MP, Chairman of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society inaugurated the booth. Mr. Md Arfan Ali, Deputy Managing Director (SMR) of Bank Asia and Quazi Mortuza Ali, VP & Head of ADC of the Bank were, among others, present during opening of the booth. Bank Asia, pioneer in agent banking in Bangladesh, has been expanding agent banking services all over Bangla...

IBBL donates warm clothes for winter hit people

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited donated ten thousand pieces blankets to Bangladesh Bank for distributing among the cold affected destitute people. On behalf of Governor, Bangladesh Bank, AFM Asaduzzaman, General Manager recently received warm clothes from Abdus Sadeque Bhuiyan, Executive Vice President and Head of Development Wing of IBBL. BB - 2 AHM Latif Uddin Chowdhury, Head of Corporate Responsibility Affairs Division of the Bank was present on the occasion. Islami Bank has decided to distribute 2 lac 25 thousand warm clothes among the cold-...

PBL new branch at Mohongonj, Netrokona

Pubali Bank Limited has inaugurated its 431st branch at Mohongonj, Netrokona. Sazzadul Hasan, Divisional Commissioner of Sylhet Division formally inaugurated the branch as Chief Guest. M.A. Halim Chowdhury, Managing Director (Current Charge) of Pubali Bank Ltd. was present as Guest of Honour. 431th Mohongonj BranchDeputy Managing Director of Pubali Bank Safiul Alam Khan Chowdhury, District Commissioner of Netrokona Tarun Kanti Shikder and SP of Netrokona Md. Zakir Hossain Khan were present as Special Gue...

Attack on RMG leaders grows mass concern

A garment factory’s closed-circuit camera captured some unusual activity: Out front a female union leader was swarmed by people, pushed to the ground and assaulted while a male union activist was chased away and punched. Another female union leader entered the factory door and seconds later was pushed outside, and then shoved out of camera range. [caption id="attachment_1499" align="alignleft" width="300"]Bangladesh-rmg-worker A file photo showing female workers in a Dhaka Garments factory[/caption] Two investigations of ...

Multivitamins lower pre-term birth chances

Giving multivitamins to pregnant wormen in the developing world could avert a leading cause of pre-term birth and infant mortality, a study in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association says. [caption id="attachment_11565" align="alignleft" width="300"]baby FILE - A woman holds her 22-day-old grandson as she walks on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 22, 2014.[/caption] Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, studied the benefits of giving multivitamins to 45,000 women in rural Ba...

Glencore wins wheat tender at $270/T

Glencore International has secured a tender to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh after submitting the lowest offer of $270 a tonne, officials at the state grains buyer said on Wednesday. The origin of the wheat is likely to be Ukraine and the wheat is to be shipped in 40 days, a senior official at the Directorate General of Food said. wheatThe price included freight, insurance and other port-related expenses. This was the first international wheat purchase tender issued by the Directorate General of Food since the current financial year started...
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