Desk Report: Standard Chartered Bangladesh launched MortgageOne, an innovative home financing solution, with a view to catering the evolving needs of its retail clients, reports New Age. Standard Chartered made the announcement at a press conference held at a city hotel where SCB’s chief executive officer Naser Ezaz Bijoy and head of retail banking Aditya…
Desk Report: President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed condolence at the death of Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) and a Nobel Peace laureate, reports The Daily Star. President Abdul Hamid expressed his condolence after Annan’s family and foundation announced in a tweet saying that Annan, one of…
UNB: The smugglers of sacrificial animal rawhides are facing an unfavourable situation this time due to strong vigilance by law enforcers at different strategic border points as well as the downtrend in rawhide prices on the international market, said tanners. Official sources said police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have already taken strong measures to…
NDTV: A French fishing trawler netted a World War II bomb containing nearly a tonne of explosives off the coast of Normandy on Friday, prompting the emergency evacuation of the crew while the device was returned to the seabed, authorities said. The trawler was fishing around two nautical miles off the coast in the English…
UNB: A fire that broke at Bangladesh Police Academy at Sarda in Charghat upazila burned down valuables, including some academic certificates of cadets, yesterday morning. Sahabuddin Ahmed, additional superintendent of Bangladesh Police Academy, said the fire broke out around 5:45 am on the ground floor of a six-storey cadet barrack. On information, a team of…
Abu Ahmed, Professor of Economics, Dhaka University: The rawhide traders of the country are cashing in on the easy bank loans. The traders failing to pay back bank loans should not be given any loan further. The traders have taken it for granted that it is not necessary to repay loans taken from the state-owned…
Desk Report: Country’s international bandwidth consumption increased 63.5 per cent in the financial year 2017-2018 compared to that of the previous year amid soaring internet usage in day-to-day life, reports New Age. Flourishing of local content, blooming of online-centric services and launching of 4G mobile services in February this year also helped in attracting internet…
Reuters: Four U.S. senators on Friday urged the Army to detail the steps it is taking to safeguard children from lead poisoning, citing a Reuters investigation into hazards on military bases. “We write to you today concerned about recent reports of lead poisoning at a number of Army installations,” the senators wrote. “The health and…
NDTV: Two Chinese academics have proposed a controversial idea to encourage childbirth as their country faces an ageing population: Make people with no or fewer than two children pay into a “maternity fund”. The suggestion sparked a furious social media debate in a country whose population has faced drastic family planning policies under the Communist…
Arab News: Saudi Arabia has contributed $100 million to help reconstruct areas of north-eastern Syria formerly held by Daesh. The Kingdom said the contribution would go toward a campaign by the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS to “stabilize” the former Daesh bastion and help ensure the militants cannot re-emerge as a threat. The United States,…