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BIAC training in labour mediation in city

BIAC organised a one-day training programme in Labour Mediation and Problem-Solving Techniques for Workplace Disputes, jointly with Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), USA on Wednesday, 17th December at a local hotel. FMCS_editThe Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is an independent agency of the US federal government established by US Congress in 1947 to help employers and unions avoid costly work stoppages and minimize their potentially devastating effects on regional or national commerce. The FMCS, headqu...

Workshop on ‘Loan Documentation’ at Basic Bank

The Basic Bank has inaugurated a workshop on ‘Loan Documentation’ for credit officials of the different Branches held recently in the BASIC Bank Training Institute (BBTI). Loan Documentaion Workshop Pic.Mr. M. Kamran Hamid, DGM & Principal, BASIC Bank Training Institute was present as the chief guest. In his concluding speech he highlighted the importance of this workshop and advised the participants to make all out efforts to use the gathered knowledge regarding the procedures of Loan Docu...

Dhaka Bank Victory Day Golf Tournament begins

Dhaka Bank Limited sponsored the “3rd Dhaka Bank Victory Day Golf Tournament 2014” at the Bhatiary Golf & Country Club on December 16, 2014. PhotoThe formal Tee-off of the Tournament started at 8:00AM in the morning. Maj. Gen. Md. Enayet Ullah, Chairman, Bangladesh Tea Board and Mr. Reshadur Rahman, Director and Former Chairman of Dhaka Bank formally inaugurated the tournament. Among others Managing Director Mr. Niaz Habib along with high officials of the Bank, other distinguished guests and Golfers were also present.

Capital flight rising  

The amount of money flown out of Bangladesh through illicit means tripled in 2012 to stand at $1.78 billion, riding mainly on trade misinvoicing. The figure was $593 million the year before. On average, $1.31 billion funneled out of the country per year between 2003 and 2012, according to the latest study by the Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based research organisation, released on Monday. The study ranked Bangladesh 51st among 145 developing countries that lost most money to siphoning. capital flight

Taliban attack leaves 141 dead in Pakistan

Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say. Pakistani officials say the attack is now over, with all of the attackers killed. A total of seven militants took part, according to the army. Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children. The attack is the deadliest ever by the Taliban in Pakistan. There has been chaos outside hospital units to which casualties were taken, the BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil reports from Peshawar. Bodies have been carried out of hospitals in coffins, escorted by crowds of mourners, some of them visibly distraught.

Who recognised Bangladesh first?    

Bhutan’s recognition of Bangladesh without waiting for Indian advice was a clever move. It was a calculated gamble to assert its independence, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.

Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan had very few comforts in 1971. For us, who went to Bhutan from Tokyo, with a nine-month old baby 42 years ago, the feeling was that we had walked backwards in time by about half a century. The first motorable road was opened only in 1968 and there were no commercial flights into Bhutan. The drive from the border town of Phuntsholing in India to Thimphu took the whole day, with a lunch break at Chukha, a small rivulet at that time, but a gigantic hydro-electric project now. Electricity was a rarity and we had to huddle around a bukhari, which bu...
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