Visa has appointed Sabbir Ahmed as the new Country Manager for Bangla-desh, Nepal and Bhutan. With over 27 years of experience in bank …
Heatwave felt differently as rolling outages strike unevenly across Bangladesh
On Tuesday, Chuadanga reached 43.7 degrees, and Jashore hit a record 43.8 degrees Celsius, the second-highest in Bangladesh’s history. Under such conditions, life becomes unbearable when power outages …
Bangladesh garment workers continue to face a climate of fear, repression: AI
Amnesty International on Wednesday said that garment workers in Bangladesh continued to face a climate of fear and repression as corporate impunity for business-related human rights abuses remained unchecked amid state sanctioned crackdown on workers’
April saw lowest rainfall in Bangladesh
Average rainfall in Bangladesh was one millimetre in April, which is the record lowest in the country since 1981. One mm of rain refers to the “depth” of rain that would be received in 1 square metre in length and width. So one mm of rain translates to 1 …
April temperatures in Bangladesh hottest on record
Bangladesh’s weather bureau said Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much of the region still enduring a suffocating heatwave.Large swathes of South and Southeast Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines,
Bangladesh signs $289.52m loan agreement with IsDB for housing finance project
At the annual meeting of the Islamic Development Bank, held in Riyadh on Monday, Bangladesh and the IsDB signed a loan agreement for the second phase of the ‘Rural and Peri-Urban Housing Finance …
Ahsan H Mansur: Bangladesh very close to becoming a Heavily Indebted Poor Country
Bangladesh has one of the lowest levels of tax revenue in … “”NBR is working to support business. We are trying to support middle-class items and increase their features and facilities.” About the …
Ahsan H Mansur: Bangladesh very close to becoming a Heavily Indebted Poor Country
Bangladesh has one of the lowest levels of tax revenue in … “”NBR is working to support business. We are trying to support middle-class items and increase their features and facilities.” About the …
Gradual rate adjustment would have softened dollar blow to business: PM Adviser Mashiur
If the Bangladesh Bank gradually adjusted the value of the taka against the US dollar instead of maintaining a fixed rate for an extended period, it could have mitigated the impact of the dollar …
PwC Bangladesh appoints senior banker Shams Zaman as its Country Managing Partner
Shams Zaman has been appointed Country Managing Partner of PwC Bangladesh. Shams will be the principal interface of PwC practices in Bangladesh.Shams Zaman brings with him over 28 years of …