United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat today paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir at his office in the city.
"Bernicat met BB governor at noon. It was a courtesy call," chief spokesperson of Bangladesh Bank Subhankar Saha told BSS.
Saha, also an executive director of the bank said, "It was the first meeting of Bernicat with Fazle Kabir as Governor of Bangladesh Bank."
Senior officials of Bangladesh Bank attended the meeting, he added.
Grameenphone (GP) and Telenor Health launched “Tonic,” a new digital health service for consumers in Bangladesh on 5th of June, 2016 at a local city hotel. Tonic was launched in the presence of the Health Minister, the Honorable Mohammad Nasim MP, BTRC Chairman Dr. Shahjahan Mahmood and partners from across the healthcare sector.
Tonic was the result of an extensive research and development process that included input from global health experts, local medical practitioners, and everyday people, Tonic aims to be relevant to a broad cross section of Bangladeshi society and cover a range of wellness and health needs.
Tonic members receive four benefits: “Tonic Jibon” offers tips and information via SMS, web, and Facebook to help members live on a healthy life by eating wel...
Rajshahi University observed International Environment day titled “to protect wild animal and environment, protect world”. RU observed the day with tree planting, rally and discussion programme.
Sunday at 10am, Prof Mohammad Mizanuddin vice chancellor of Rajshahi University inaugurated the programme at environment science institute of RU by planting tree. In the
meantime pro-vice chancellor Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, tresurer Sayen Uddin Ahmed and Register prof Muhammad Antajul Hoque also planted tree. On the...
Bank Asia organized Art Competition at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Dhaka marking the World Environment Day 2016. The theme of the art competition was “Our World”. About 200 children of the employees of the Bank, aged from 2 years to 13 years, participated at the completion held on Friday (3 June 2016).
The theme of the art competition was “Our World”. About 200 children of the employees of the Bank, aged from 2 years to 13 years, participated at the completion held on Friday (3 June 2016).
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Tomorrow (June 06, 2016) is the second death anniversary of Mahbubul Alam, former editor of English daily The Independent.
Alam, also a former caretaker government adviser, began his journalism career in the mid-1950s and was deeply associated with the profession till his death. He passed away in 2014
at the age of 78.
The veteran journalist also worked as minister (press) at the Bangladesh mission in Washington DC and London and as Bangladeshi ambassador to Bhutan.
He was also managing directo...
Muhammad Ali’s most famous act of social activism — one that would strip him of his best fighting years, cost him millions of dollars, forever alter his image and eventually send him into debt — began with one off-hand quote: “Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.”
US military was escalating its fight in Vietnam in March 1966. It began substantially lowering its standards for the draft so it could conscript more men, and call up men with lower IQs for 1-A service. This meant that Ali, whose Army-tested IQ score of 78 had been too low for the draft in 1962, was now eligible for unrestricted military service.
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