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Streamlining sale of savings tools

If the government decision, albeit belated, to create a national database of buyers of government-sponsored savings instruments (sanchyapatras and bonds) and seek some basic information and documents from them is implemented properly, it would surely pay dividend, in terms of payment of yield. According to a report published in this...

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Fresh pledge to curb NPL

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said last week that the government would prepare a guideline to verify all classified loans in the banking sector and take necessary steps for curbing default loans. The Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) will, according to reports, provide the Ministry of Finance with a list...

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Heroes of mass upsurge and people's war

The recent death of yet another Language Movement hero in Sherpur district may prompt many youths to repeat the question: How many people took part in the historic 1952 movement for Bangla language in the erstwhile East Pakistan? In reply to their query, veterans and the elderly come up with...

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Tough stance against loan defaulters

This letter is in reference to a news item titled "New finance minister sounds tough on loan defaulters" published in the Financial Express on January 08, 2019. The report stated that newly-appointed Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has asked the bankers to go tough on delinquent borrowers to help lower...

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YouTube: A digital classroom

Over the past decade, YouTube has turned out to be a great platform through which new skills can be learnt. YouTube users can learn anything from it. They can learn cooking, body building, how to assemble a computer and install software into it and even learn foreign languages. A few...

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