AIBL holds seminar on Green Banking, EnvRR

A day-long workshop on “Green Banking & Environmental Risk Rating (EnvRR)” was held at Al-ArafahIslamiBankTraining & ResearchAcademy on Saturday. 20131116-AIBL Training PressManaging Director of the bank Md. Habibur Rahman inaugurated the workshop as chief guest, says a press release. Among others, Bank’s Deputy Managing Director Md. Golam Rabbani and Principal of AIBTRA Md. Zahid Hasan were also present in the occasion. Managers, Second Officers and Investment In-Charges of selected branche...

Commodity mixed amid global growth worries

Commodity prices traded mixed this week as dealers reacted to US stimulus expectations amid weaker growth worries across the globe. Raw material futures, which had been falling early in the week, recovered some lost ground after Federal Reserve chief- nominee Janet Yellen defended the US central bank’s $85 billion- a-month bond-buying programme, and rejected suggestions that it had generated fresh bubbles in property or stock markets. commodity-etfThe comments Thursday at her confirmation heari...

Bangladesh offered lands in Sri Lanka for jute cultivation

Bangladesh has received a request from Sri Lanka on jute cultivation in its northwestern province Puttalam where Colombo assured of giving long-term lease of lands. The request came in a meeting between Sri Lankan President Mohinda Rajapaksa and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here today, reports BSS. Sheikh Hasina is now in Colombo to attend Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM). bd-LankaThe Prime Minister expressed Bangladesh's interest in extending cooperation in cultivating unused lands in the down-south and east a...

Targeting brain region may help smokers quit

"When we activated the GABAergic neurons in the interpeduncular nucleus, mice suffered withdrawal symptoms even if they had no previous nicotine exposure," Tapper noted. Scientists have found that targeting a specific brain region may help smokers kick the butt. Researchers at the University of  Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have identified the region of the brain responsible for symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, such as headache and anxiety, that keep smokers from quitting. They found that physical nicotine withdrawal symptoms are triggered by activation of GABAergic neurons (neurons that secrete GABA, the brain's predominant inhibitory neurotransmitter), in the interpeduncular nucleus. 1420310_468887073231313_88744277... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

PM seeks proactive Commonwealth role in removing inequalities

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the Commonwealth to take a pro-active role in removing inequalities and impediments to ensure justice in its member states with genuine global partnership for their real progress. Stressing the importance of peace and genuine democracy for development, she said,  “Increasing inequality of growth, impediments in the mobility of finances, goods and services, decreasing the role of the states in creating employments and under representation in global decision making process needs to be rectified with genuine global partnership based on justice and equal voice for real progress of the developing partners”. sheikh-h... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Yunus not enjoying respect he deserves

Grameen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus has not been enjoying the respect he deserves in his own country, said German Ambassador to Dhaka Dr Albrecht Conze. “It saddens me that the distinguished pioneer of microfinance and social business has not been enjoying the respect he deserves in his own country lately,” the German diplomat came up with the remark when he met Prof Yunus in Thursday morning to convey an invitation by German President Joachim Gauck to visit Berlin early next year. Yunus-German envoyDuring the meeting, the Germa...
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