Bangladesh has twice returned stolen asset to the UK under a UN model following detection and requests from London and this modality can also apply to bid for repatriating its own laundered wealth, experts say.The then Bangladesh government returned stolen assets worth about US$ 1.5 million (USD 1,588,087.68 or Tk...
Read moreA potential venture like an inland container and bulk terminal misses time and turns wasteful as the project authority has sought over 62-percent cost hike, sources say. The plea for more than doubling the cost comes four years after the project for building the cargo terminal at Khanpur off the...
Read moreOfficials of state-owned Agrani, Janata and Sonali banks have demanded an amendment to the promotion and placement policy for the positions of general manager (GM) and deputy managing director (DMD).In a letter to finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed recently, the officials said the current policy led them to fall behind compared...
Read moreProvisioning shortfalls in the country's banking industry surged by nearly 19 per cent to Tk 315.49 billion as of June 30, 2024, according to Bangladesh Bank statistics.This significant shortfall is concentrated mainly in ten banks, including six private commercial banks. The banks are: National Bank, BASIC Bank, Agrani Bank, Rupali...
Read moreCUMILLA, Sep 06 (UNB): Four people, including three of a family, were killed in a fatal road accident on Dhaka-Chattgraom highway in Chauddagram end of Cumilla district early Friday, said police.Dewan Nazmul Huda, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Chauddagram police station, confirmed the casualties saying that a Dhaka-bound passenger bus of the...
Read moreFormer Foreign Minister and Bangladesh Awami League joint general secretary Hasan Mahmud has left the country for Belgium before the travel ban imposed on a number of ministers including him, claimed a Chattogram-based media and a national private TV channel, reports UNB.Hasan served as the general secretary of the Belgium...
Read moreMourners carry the bodies of Palestinians killed during an Israel raid in the northern part of occupied West Bank, during a group funeral procession in the Jenin refugee camp on Friday. — AFP
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