The 13 newly licensed life insurance companies in Bangladesh have all reported incurring losses throughout last year due to declining premium income and high management cost.
This was the content of the report prepared by the Insurance Development Regulatory Authority (IDRA), the country’s insurance regulator.
The report showed that the 13 new life insurance firms posted earnings of Tk1.17 billion (US$15
million) against their management cost of Tk1.18 billion (US$15.1 million...
WaterAid Bangladesh has launched the “Bangladesh country programme strategy 2016-2021,reaching everyone, everywhere always, with improved WASH” at a city hotel in the capital today, 11 February, 2016 (Thursday).
Country program strategy of Bangladesh is the strategy document that will guide the programmatic approaches, design, partnerships and delivery mechanism of WaterAid Bangladesh in the next five years.Under this programme strategy WaterAid Bangladesh is to address WASH as a much more integrated component of overall development and achieving SDG 6 of which zero open defecation is only the beginning.
Roxana Quader, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare; Karin McDonald, Head of Development Cooperation, SIDA and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Sweden; ...
The ‘1
st Managers’ Conference-2016’ participated by all Managers of Mymensingh Region of Pubali Bank Limited was held recently at Zilla Parishad Auditorium, Netrakona to motivate them to increase Bank’s business by rendering better services.
Sazzadul Hassan, Additional Secretary and PS-1 to the Honorable Prime Minister graced the
conference as Chief Guest. Safiul Alam Khan Chowdhury, Additional Managing Director of Pubali Bank Limi...
A workshop on Regulatory Compliance in Deposit Accounts was held at Al-Arafah Islami Bank Training & Research Institute (AIBTRI) recently.
Managing Director of the Bank Md. Habibur Rahman inaugurated the course as Chief Guest. Principal of the Institute Nurul Islam Khalifa presided over the ceremony while Senior Vice Presidents M. Abul Quasssem, Iqbal Hossain Ahmed and faculty of the institute Towhid Siddique were present in the occasion.
Managing...
A four-day long debate festival titled ‘2nd National Inter Club Debate Festival’ began at Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Thursday here on campus. Securing slogan ‘Joktikotay Uttkorshito Hok Torun Pran’, Sarkar o Rajniti Bitorko Manch (SRBM) in association with JU Debate Organization organised the fest.
At around 3.30pm, convener Abdul Kader Marzuk and also president of SRBM disclosed the event at a press conference at the office of JU journalist’s Association.
JU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Farzana Islam is expected to inaug...
The U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday efforts by Bangladesh’s prime minister to undermine the political opposition will probably provide openings for transnational terrorist groups to expand their presence in the South Asian country.
Director Of National Intelligence James Clapper questioned Bangladesh’s public insistence that the killings of foreigners were the work of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and are intended to discredit the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
In written testimony to a Senate hearing on worldwide threats, Clapper noted the claims of
