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Concern arising over India’s river-linking plan

The recent announcement in New Delhi to go ahead with a scheme to link 30 rivers across the country, including the Brahmaputra and the Ganga in the Himalayas, set off new concerns from Bangladesh. New Delhi’s renewed thrust on the project has left not merely environmentalists, but also the Bangladeshi government, its opposition and the Indian opposition worried. bd-indiaThe announcement seems to have overlooked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s very recent reiterated commitment and a joint communique signed by the two prime ministers of Banglade...

Banks’ profit eroded by bad loans

A Financial Stability Report for 2014 has been released by the Bangladesh Bank, the nation’s central bank, and a key outcome of it is that high non-performing loans (NPLs) eroded the earnings of banks last year. The report says that return on asset and return on equity, the two major indicators used to measure a bank’s profitability, decreased by 20 and 260 basis points to 0.7 and 8.1 percent respectively from a year ago. The rise in NPLs last year forced banks to set aside a major portion of their profits for bb-logoprovisioning, the Daily Star quot...

Only 100 tigers survive in Sundarbans

Only some 100 tigers currently roam the Sundarbans forests of Bangladesh, a new survey has discovered, indicating far fewer big cats than previously thought in one of their largest global habitats. tigerThe yearlong survey that ended in April was based on footage from hidden cameras and found the true number of tigers to be between 83 and 130, Agence France-Presse reported. “So plus or minus we have around 106 tigers in our parts of the Sundarbans,” Tapan Kumar Dey, the Bangladesh government’s wildlife conservator, told AFP. “It’s a more accurate figure....

Dettol Plaantik Fantasy League winner announced

After competing for a long and much awaited 9 months, Dettol Bangladesh in partnership with Plaantik is proud to present the first ever Champion of their first venture together in an online Fantasy Football Competition. _DSC0354The winner of the Dettol Bangladesh Plaantik Fantasy League 2014-15 is Farhad Hussain. After winning by one single point among 1000+ players, Farhad was presented the grand prize; a Playstation 4 console. The Prize Giving ceremony for the Dettol Bangladesh Plaantik Fantasy League 2014-15 was held recently at Reckitt Benckiser ...

PBL promotes 37 of its SPOs

37 Senior Principal Officers (SPOs) of Pubali Bank Limited (PBL) were promoted to Asst. General Manager as recognition for their outstanding performance in the profession. Managing Director of Pubali Bank Ltd. Md. Abdul Halim Chowdhury handed over the promotion letter to the newly promoted Asst. General Managers as Chief Guest. [caption id="attachment_18461" align="alignright" width="534"]SPO To AGM 2015 Managing Director of Pubali Bank Ltd. Md. Abdul Halim Chowdhury poses for photograph along with newly promoted Asst. General Managers. Deputy Mana...

India approves Rs 1,000cr for Indo-Bangla rail link

The Indian government has sanctioned around Rs.1,000 crore for a 15-km India-Bangladesh railway project, an official said on Sunday. The union government on Saturday communicated to Tripura that it had sanctioned Rs.580 crore to lay the rail tracks and acquire required land in Tripura, Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik said. bd-indiaThe external affairs ministry earlier agreed to provide Rs.400 crore to lay the new tracks and to acquire land in Bangladeshi territory. Union cabinet secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha is looking after the execution of...
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