Reuters: Regulators overseeing Islamic banking must revise guidance on real estate exposures to align with the post-financial crisis capital rules of Basel III, a global industry body said on Sunday. The Bahrain-based General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI) said treatment of real estate across Islamic finance jurisdictions still reflected Basel II or…
Arab News: During talks with Pakistan’s visiting foreign minister, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday emphasized the need to fully implement the Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS), as Kabul seeks to reset ties with the new government in Islamabad. The one-day visit by Shah Mahmood Qureshi is the first by a top…
Arab News: The Dalai Lama said Saturday that he has known about sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers since the 1990s and that such allegations are “nothing new.” The Tibetan spiritual leader, revered by millions of Buddhists around the world, made the admission during a four-day visit to the Netherlands, where he met on Friday with…
NTV Online: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said the demands put forward by Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury and Dr Kamal Hossain-led ‘greater national unity’ are not acceptable. The minister came up with the remark while talking to reporters regarding the demands of the ‘greater national unity’, at the secretariat. Earlier on Saturday, Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury-led…
BSS: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday opened for traffic two bridges on the Teesta and Titas rivers in Rangpur and Brahmanbaria saying her government was striving to build better communication networks nationwide to accelerate economic activities and facilitate peoples’ movement. “A better communication system will better peoples’ economic condition,” she said opening the two bridges…
The Hindustan Times: Participating in spiritual practices during childhood and adolescence may lead to positive health and well-being outcomes in early adulthood. According to a recent research, people who attended weekly religious services or practised daily prayer or meditation in their youth reported greater life satisfaction and positivity in their 20s. The study noted that…
UNB: Beanibazar Mukhtijoddha Complex has remained locked since its inauguration one year back, said local freedom fighters. After its inauguration by Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, the complex was opened for only one day for a reception programme, the freedom fighters alleged. They also said freedom fighters have no place here for holding any meeting…
Reuters: Four people were killed on Sunday in an air strike that targeted a radio station in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, residents and medical sources told Reuters. The four were employees of the radio station, called Almaraweah, they said. The strike came as a Saudi-led military coalition resumed last week an offensive…
Banglanews24: As admire pour in from whole cricket world to Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal for his valiant efforts of playing with a fractured wrist against Sri Lanka, Tiger Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza too came up to praise his ‘courageous’ colleague. “I think the word for Tamim is that ‘people should always remember him’, the way…
AFP: Women should play a greater role in the training of priests to fight the child abuse “crisis” that has engulfed the Catholic Church, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet has said. More must be done within the church to tackle the root causes of the latest wave of global abuse scandals to rock the institution, said…