Unfinished highways a hurdle to economic dreams
Across the road from Dhaka airport, workers in bright yellow hardhats walk past rusting steel beams that show both the promise and risks facing Bangladesh’s economy.
The piles of metal are meant to be the building blocks of the country’s biggest public-private venture — a 20-kilometer (13-mile) elevated road that will allow cargo trucks to bypass the capital’s crowded intersections. It will connect with a highway, now being widened to four lanes, to the main port of Chittagong. Plans are underway for another expressway running parallel that will slash the travel time to two hours from eight.
When completed, the three projects would allow companies to quickly ferry goods along a 250-kilometer route that carries 90 percent of Bangladesh’s exports. Prime Minister Sheikh
IBBL Business Dev Confce’ 2016 begins
A two-day Business Development Conference 2016 of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was inaugurated on January 15, 2016 at a local hotel. Presided over by Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director of the Bank, Engr. Mustafa Anwar, Chairman and Engr Md. Eskander Ali Khan, Chairman, Executive Committee addressed the inaugural ceremony as the Chief guest and Special guest repectlively.
Md. Abul Hossain, Director and Prof. Abu Bakr Rafique, Member Secretary of Shariah
Supervisory Committee of the Bank were present on the occasion. Muhammad Abul Bashar, Md. Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, FCA, Md. Mahbub-ul-Alam, Rafi Ahmed Begh, Abdus Sadeq...
Supervisory Committee of the Bank were present on the occasion. Muhammad Abul Bashar, Md. Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, FCA, Md. Mahbub-ul-Alam, Rafi Ahmed Begh, Abdus Sadeq...
SJIBL inks deal with EC
An agreement has been signed between Shahjalal Islami Bank and Limited (SJIBL) and Election Commission Bangladesh (EC) on 14th January 2016 at Election Commission office in Agargoan, Dhaka.
Mr. Farman R Chowdhury the Managing Director of Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd. and Mr. Syed 
Md. Musa Director (operation) of National Identity Registration wing signed on the agreement on behalf of their respective organization.
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Md. Musa Director (operation) of National Identity Registration wing signed on the agreement on behalf of their respective organization.
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Helping climate refugees: A dispatch from Bangladesh
I spent the past week in Bangladesh, visiting the countryside on a fascinating and heartening trip from the country’s massive capital, Dhaka, to the south, a region being hammered by climate change. I came to give some speeches and took the opportunity to see for myself how foreign aid and local sweat and equity are being used to fight the rising seas in a country so low that 30 million people may become refugees. For them to secure a livelihood in their home places, the developed countries need to be engaged, with our resources, our hands, and our minds. We simply cannot afford not to be here.
After being asked for years to come, I’d finally made the trip to attend the 2nd annual Gobeshona conference, a gathering of researchers seeking to understand the reality and best p...
AHRC calls to take words of CJ with utmost seriousness
In a statement, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has called upon the UN and all the world governments to take the words of the Chief Justice (CJ) of Bangladesh with utmost seriousness and exert all pressures to stop the Executive from usurping the powers of the Judiciary. Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has made a rare public statement; he has said the Executive is usurping all the powers of the Judiciary. He called upon all the judges and lawyers to come forward and fight against the Executive’s attempt to control the entire State and its institutions and thereby usurp all the power of Judiciary, AHRC said.
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has publicly said:
“Beware of the executive; it is trying to take away all our powers. The judiciary and the legal p...
