Irene Z. Khan, director general of the International Development Law Organisation, says development and democracy are not possible without the presence of a free media and freedom of speech and the government will be in the dark unless the media is free. The prominent rights activist pointed this out on Monday afternoon while delivering a speech in Dhaka, titled ‘Human rights and free media: Beneficial or impediment for development’.
The speech, delivered at the Daily Star Centre in Dhaka and was organised by the Daily Star as part of its 25
th founding anniversary celebrations.
Irene Khan, in her speech, talked about the history of the free media in the USA and Europe and
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...
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