Immediate reforms imperative to discipline banking system

Alarm bells rang louder Saturday from economists' meet for immediate reform to restore discipline in Bangladesh's banking system, seen largely ridden with irregularities. Financial-market analysts made the clarion call for urgent action specifically to stem the tide of non-performing loans and other forms of fraudulence and safeguard clientele interests. On...

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Canada sees deal as first step in Rohingya repatriation

Canada's special envoy on the Rohingya crisis Bob Rae has said it would be 'unconscionable' for the member states of the UN to sanction a repatriation that was forced, or that did not include basic protections of human security and human rights."This is not a short term problem with a...

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Kalyan Party leader on remand after return from disappearance

MM Aminur Rahman Detective Police get four days to question Kalyan Party Secretary General MM Aminur Rahman, who had been missing for four months, over a 2015 bomb attack on a protest programme attended by Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, report agencies.Detective Police Inspector Md Zihad brought the leader of an...

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BD food security ranks lowest in South Asia

Bangladesh stands on the 89th position in the recently published Global Food Security Index-2017, which is the lowest among the South-Asian countries, reports UNB.The general secretary of Bangladesh Food Security Network, Nurul Alam Masud, disclosed this at a press briefing in the city's Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU) on Saturday morning.Nurul...

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Construction of Dohazari-Cox's Bazar railway line starts in Jan

Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Dec 23: Construction of a 128-kilometre Dohazari-Ghundum railway line via Cox's Bazar is set to start next month with completion of the land acquisition process in two or three weeks.The land acquisition in both Chittagong and Cox's Bazar is at its final stage. Deputy Commissioners of Chittagong and...

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