The lack of awareness and delayed diagnosis are the biggest challenges for Bangladesh's fight against cancer, said Sakif Shamim, Managing Director of Labaid Cancer Hospital...
Every year, approximately 482,000 Bangladeshis cross into India seeking medical treatment. Several hundred thousand more travel to Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia. Medical tourism outflows total...
Every year 4th February is observed as the "World Cancer Day", adopted by Union for International Cancer Control UICC in 2000 at Paris World summit...
Bangladesh must invest heavily in cancer research, innovation, AI-driven technologies -- Doulot Akter Mala shows how answers to cancers can be derived from latest know-how...
The banking sector of Bangladesh has been under intense strain after years of weak governance, political interference, and regulatory failure. Doctored financial statements and large-scale...
There is a scene in the 2023 award winning Indian film 12th Fail that captures something profoundly wrong with South Asian education systems. In a...
Bangladesh stands at a critical juncture. With over one-third of its population aged below 30, the future of the nation will be determined not by...
The world is shutting its doors, and the implications for developing countries are profound. Between January and May 2025, USA consulates issued roughly 95,000 F-1...
M. Nazeem A. Choudhury, Deputy Managing Director, Prime Bank PLC during an interview with The Financial Express recently gave his views on agent banking and...
Agent banking has woven one of Bangladesh's quiet financial success stories. The pivot aims at extending high-street banking services to underserved, mostly women and geographically...
The primary objective of launching EBL agent banking was to deliver safe and modern banking services to the doorstep of unbanked rural and marginal communities...
While explaining the benefits of agent banking during an interview with the FE, Md Omar Faruk Khan, Managing Director, Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC, said the...
Agent banking comes as a trailblazer in driving financial inclusion in Bangladesh, showing strong business growth, but entrepreneurs feel it is increasingly getting under strain...
Villagers used to depend on usurers and thereafter on NGOs for small moneys, from time immemorial. Gonna are the days of those moneylenders--a banking derivation...
Midland Bank recognizes the transformative potential of agent banking as a cost-effective and inclusive solution for providing financial services to the underserved and under developed...
The habitat presently called Bangladesh had assumed different names over the ages since time immemorial. The place which was known as ‘Vanga’ or Bangla’ was...
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