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School Banking Confce at Mymensingh

Bangladesh Bank and 32 other Banks jointly organized a School Banking Conference recently at Mymensingh to expand School Banking activities more widely. School Banking ConferenceNovelist Selina Hossain, Chairman of Shishu Academy inaugurated the Conference at Zilla Shilpakala Academy. M. Mahfuzur Rahman, Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank; Safiul Alam Khan Chowdhury, Deputy Managing Director of Pubali Bank Limited and M Shahnawaz Chowdhury, General Manager of Head Office were also present along with Senior Executiv...

SJIBL Securities reelects its Chair, Vice-Chairs

Alhaj Mohiuddin Ahmed re-elected Chairman of ShahjalalIslami Bank Securities Ltd. unanimously in the 33rd meeting of the Board of Directors of Shahjalal Islami Bank Securities Alhaj Mohiuddin Ahmed, Chairman, Shahjalal Islami Bank Securities Ltd.-1Limited (SJIBSL) was held at 20th September 2015. Alhaj Md. Sanaullah Shahid and Alhaj Mohammad Younus were re-electedVice-Chairmen in the same meeting. Re-elected Chairman...

Climate change resilience: BD women lead the way

Rajena Boiragi wakes up at six in the morning to collect crab and shrimp in her family fishing pond, usually spending around five hours a day in muddy waters gathering what she can to sell at the local market. The 55-year-old lives with her son, Heatler and her daughter, Indira, in the village of Holdibunia, located in the Mongla upazila (district) of Bagerhat, in south-western Bangladesh. “The pond is in my backyard so I don’t have to walk long and my son works with me, so together we get whatever we can, faster than if I was doing it on my own,” says Ms. Boiragi. climate

FPT wins $ 34m contract in Bangladesh

The FPT Information System Company (FPT-IS) beat five international contractors to win a US$33.6 million contract to provide, implement and maintain the Integrated VAT Administration System (IVAS) for the Bangladeshi government. An official contract was signed by FPT-IS and the National Board of Revenue (NBR) of ftpBangladesh in Dhaka on September 16. The contract accounts for one-tenth of the US$310 million trade figure reached between Vietnam and Bangladesh in the first six months of this year. FPT-IS will implement the project IVAS over 12 months and p...

Dr Baker’s dedication to Bangladesh

Albert Schweitzer (14 January, 1875 – 4 September, 1965) was born in France but spent his life in Gabon in Africa. He, who he married Helene Bresslau, daughter of the Jewish, built the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon. It is an internationally acclaimed leading research hospital working to end the scourge of malaria and serving as a highly regarded training institute for African physicians and scientists. Albert was a German—and later French—theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. Mother Teresa (26 August, 1910 – 5 September, 1997) was born in what is now Macedonia but lived in Kolkata in India to serve humanity. She founded the Missionaries of Charity which is now active over 100 countri...

Govt wants to invest $ 8b in infrastructure

Government wants to invest $8 billion over the next few years in infrastructure to improve the economy and sought help from private sector to share the cost which the government could not bear alone. S A Samad, the executive chairman of the state run Board of Investment (BOI) highlighted the figure while meeting with business leaders from bilateral foreign chambers of commerce in Bangladesh. [caption id="attachment_19869" align="alignright" width="644"]s1.reutersmedia.net Bangladeshi children play on concrete pipes beside a road in Dha...
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