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Cabinet clears draft Accreditation Council Law

The cabinet today gave the final approval to the draft of “The Accreditation Council Law, 2016” aiming to ensure quality of higher education, particularly the university education, in Bangladesh. The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. 2016-10-10_bss-13_619922After the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam briefed reporters. He said the approval of the draft law was giv...

Information Olympiad at Sonargaon Sinha School

To mark the International Information Day’ 2016, the Regional Reporting Society (the RRS) has organized an Information Olympiad at Sinha Higher Secondary School of  Sonargaon Upazilla in Nrayanganj recently. Chief Information Commissioner of Bangladesh Prof Dr Md. Golam Rahman was the chief guest at the certificate distribution ceremony held on last Thursday. Principal of the College Md. Abdur Rahman presided over the function while Central Coordinator of Sujan, Dilip Kumar [caption id="attachment_24455" align="alignleft" width="540"]Jpeg The ...

US sanctions on Myanmar lifted

President Barack Obama formally announced the lifting of US sanctions on Myanmar on Friday by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to US national security. "I have determined that the situation that gave rise to the national emergency ... has been significantly altered by Burma's (Myanmar's) substantial advances to promote democracy, including historic elections in November 2015," Obama said in a letter to the US House and Senate speakers. A US treasury statement said that as a result of the termination of the emergency order the

EU ambassador’s words of caution

The European Union (EU) is one of Bangladesh’s largest trade and development partners. In fact, 50 percent of the country’s exports go to the EU. And so there is all reason to take into cognizance EU ambassador Pierre Mayaudon’s concern about Bangladesh’s lack of preparation to become a GSP Plus member. There are differences among economists as to the definition of a mid-income country. According to the World Bank, there are two types of mid-income countries, that is, lower mid-income and higher mid-income. There is no such thing as a mid-income country. Yet the

Meghna Bank signs deal with Time Zone

Recently Meghna Bank Limited has signed an Agreement with Time Zone in its Head Office at Suvastu Imam Square, Gulshan, Dhaka. agreement-with-time-zoneMr. Mohammed Nurul Amin, Managing Director & CEO of the Meghna Bank is exchanging the MOU with his counterpart Mr. Ghulam Mostafa, Managing Director of Time Zone. By this agreement Meghna Bank Credit Card holders can avail 0% Insta-Pay EMI Facilities for 3, 6 & 12 months tenure.

Social enterprise impact across Bangladesh

The British Council launched two new survey reports titled ‘The State of Social Enterprise in Bangladesh’ and ‘Social Enterprise Policy Landscape in Bangladesh’ today at Hotel Ascott Palace Ltd. in the Baridhara region of the Capital. Produced by the British Council, the study on Bangladesh was led by Overseas Development Institute (www.odi.org) with support from BetterStories, UnLtd and Social Enterprises UK. The first report, ‘The State of Social Enterprise in Bangladesh’, attempts for the first time to understand the scale of social enterprise activity in Bangladesh as well as the sectors in which social enterprises are focused and the beneficiaries that they support. It helps to fill our knowledge gap by providing quantitative information about the operations,
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