Arifur Rahman Tuhin 90% of the bankers believe that, takeover loans already increasing the risk factors in the Banking Sector. 50% believe that, this will lead to even dangerous situation in the future. Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) reported this, at their “Loan Takeover in Bangladesh: Is it a healthy practice?” – tilted round-table…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Mikaila Ulmer began her journey when she was 4 and encouraged by her parents to take part in the Austin lemonade competition. Two events happened almost simultaneously which propelled her journey forward, first she was stung by a bee and almost began to have a phobia and next she received a 1940’s family…
DOT Desk December 13 marked the seventh death anniversary of educationist, translator and author Kabir Chowdhury. He was also one of the pioneering figures of the movement against fundamentalism in Bangladesh, reports The Daily Observer. Chowdhury was born in 1923 in Brahmanbaria. His family hailed from Noakhali. With a master’s in English literature – graduating…
Nabin Talukder: The long-serving governor leader of the Russian district where a shopping center fire burnt many people alive, has stepped down from his post. Aman Tuleyev said resigning from representing Kemerovo was “the right, cognizant and just obvious choice” after the tragedy as he declared the move in a video addressing it on the regional…
Desk Report: Currency counterfeiters, dopers and muggers have become active in the capital and other parts of the country ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, reports Dailly Sun. Detectives have found the activeness of the criminal gangs after arresting some of their members from different places in the last few days. Currency fakers and dopers are…
Desk Report: Steps have been taken to bring all the poultry farmers and feed sellers under registration aiming at ensuring safe and good poultry farming practices for sound public health, reports Financial Express. Department of Livestock Services has taken the decision at a meeting with district and upazila level DLS officials, poultry farmers and other…
Asian Age: Disasters such as earthquake, fire, flood, drought, cyclone and salinity are damaging lives, crops and infrastructures – causing a huge economic loss. Bangladesh counts 1.8 percent GDP loss every year due to natural disaster, said Md Quamrul Hasan, former Joint Secretary of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, while presenting the keynote at…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Sheikh Hasina for the fourth time took oath as prime minister of Bangladesh yesterday, which is her third on the trot since 2009, reports The Daily Star. After the development, the new ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers— all from the ruling Awami League– were also sworn-in to the cabinet…
MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities began a massive settlement project that will annex large parts of four villages surrounding the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, isolating them, the Palestinian Information Centre reported yesterday. As a result, the villages of Biter, Wadi Fokin, Nahhalin and Hosan west of Bethlehem, home to some 20,000 Palestinians, would be…
Hossen Sohel: A South Sudanese doctor who runs an overcrowded hospital with a dimly-lit surgical theatre and no regular supply of general anaesthesia yesterday won the UN refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen award, reports AFP. Evan Atar Adaha’s Maban hospital in the South Sudanese town of Bunj serves more than 144,000 refugees from Blue Nile state…