Pubali Bank tree plantation prog at NU

Pubali Bank PLC inaugurated a tree plantation program at the National University Campus as part of its social responsibility program. The tree plantation program was inaugurated by National University Vice Chancellor Professor Dr ASM Amanullah as the Chief Guest. Pubali Bank PLC Managing Director and CEO Mohammad Ali was present as the Guest of Honour.
Pro-Vice Chancellors of National University Professor Md. Lutfor Rahman and Dr Md. Nurul Islam and Treasurer Professor Dr A T M Zafrul Azam were pre...

Tarique outlines post-Hasina vision for Bangladesh

Bangladesh's exiled opposition leader, Tarique Rahman, has announced his intention to return to his country to contest the upcoming national elections, expressing confidence that his party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), will secure a decisive majority following the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year.

Highlights:

  • “Bangladesh before all” foreign policy
  • BNP confident of majority win
  • Plan to diversify Bangladesh’s economy
  • Allies wit...

Bangladesh secures less than 5pc of South Asia’s logistics FDI

Bangladesh drew $1.8 billion in greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) in the logistics sector between 2019 and 2024—representing just 4.9% of South Asia’s total inflows—according to a joint study by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and GlobalData. The report, released in June and posted on the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) website, highlights the country’s modest performance in attracting logistics-related investments despite its growing trade potential.

Textile firms turn to technology to sort waste crisis

The world's second biggest exporter of clothes, Bangladesh, is looking to technology to gain control of the fashion industry's other major product: textile waste. Cloud-hosted software allows manufacturers to segregate, label and register waste on a digital platform and track it as it passes between factories, handlers and recyclers.
Rizvan Hasan is the country lead of Reverse Resources, a company that produces the software.
"Reverse Resources is bridging Bangladesh's waste streams with international recyc...

WHO has a women problem

Thomas Ibrahim:
Ask almost any woman, and she will have a story about being dismissed by a clinician. Conditions that primarily affect women are under-recognised; maternity care too often falls short; and women who arrive at emergency rooms with classic cardiac symptoms are, by some studies, roughly twice as likely as men to be told their distress is “just anxiety.” The pattern is not incidental. It is structural. The failures extend beyond the bedside. It is now wide...
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