Annual Business Strategy Summit 2022 of Institutional Banking, Treasury and Offshore Banking of Midland Bank Limited was held through a digital platform on Saturday. Managing Director and CEO of the bank Ahsan-uz Zaman inaugurated the Summit meeting as chief guest. Deputy Managing Director of the bank Md Zahid Hossain was present
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Another Meghna bridge construction to begin this year
The construction of another Meghna bridge through Bhulta-Araihazar-Bancharampur is expected to start this year under the government-to-government (G2G) public-private partnership (PPP) model. Bangladesh pairs up with South Korea to do the job. The feasibility study on the proposed bridge having a length of around 2.75 km ends next month. The information was shared
Omicron gradually becoming dominant variant: DGHS
According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the Omicron variant is gradually taking the place of the Delta variant in Bangladesh. The Delta variant is still predominant in community-level infections but the Omicron variant is gradually taking its place, said DGHS spokesperson Prof Dr Nazmul Islam during the health
Experts reject proposed gas price hike
Speakers at a discussion meeting on the country's 'gas crisis' -dwindling reserves met with increasingly expensive imports - trashed a proposed price hike sent to the energy regulator by the state-owned gas distribution companies for drawing on erroneous assessment. "The proposal to hike the gas price by 117 percent is abnormally
Country now ranks 41st in economic power amid pandemic
Amid the ongoing corona pandemic, lawmakers in the Jatiya Sangsad Sunday said Bangladesh has been able to keep its economy upward and now the country remains 41st position economically across the world. “Bangladesh now becomes an ‘emerging tiger’ across the world under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while the
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Rosatom presents its SMR technology at EXPO 2020
Rosatom, state nuclear corporation of Russia hosted Small Modular Reactors (SMR) Day on Thursday at EXPO 2020, which is currently taking place in Dubai. Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao Y. Leon, and high-ranking representatives from international organizations and partner companies, UAE Atomic Energy Corporation
Pathao, Swap sign partnership deal
Pathao Limited, a market leader in the nation’s digital services, has signed an exclusive deal with Bangladesh’s first-ever C2B & C2B2C marketplace, SWAP at the headquarters of Pathao in Gulshan 2. The agreement allows all Pathao users to redeem their loyalty program Pathao Points to gain up to 15% extra cash
MBL distributes winter clothes among destitute students at Baufal
Mercantile Bank Limited distributed winter clothes among 550 cold-hit destitute students of Baufal upazilla in Patuakhali on Thursday, says a press release. An initiative by Bank’s Vice Chairman A. S. M. Feroz Alam, Kalaiya Branch of MBL arranged the program to distribute winter clothes among poor students. Md. Al Amin, UNO of
Unique Group, Hansa Management to use bKash Payroll Solution
Country’s leading business conglomerate Unique Group and its sister concern Hansa Management will use bKash payroll solution to disburse salaries and other allowances to their employees. An agreement has been signed among bKash, Unique Group and Hansa Management in this regard recently. Syed Sanwarul Haque, CEO (trust office) and Capt. Anisur Rahman,