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'Future banking for marginal people'

2023-01-17 00:00:00

AGENT BANKING IN BANGLADESH

The concept of agent banking emerged from the realisation that the benefits of banks need to be taken to the doorsteps of millions of unbanked...

Agent banking operations of Midland Bank

2023-01-17 00:00:00

AGENT BANKING IN BANGLADESH

Midland Bank started agent banking operations with the slogan of "Apnar Shathey Apnar Pashe" since 2017 with the aim of providing banking services to the...

Maiden metro rail opens

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

Bangladesh enters speedy electric-commuting era as its maiden metro rail opened Wednesday with the first modern train ceremonially rolled on a section of multi-phased mass...

Padma Bridge opens

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

The Padma Bridge was opened to traffic June 25 fulfilling a dream of the nation many people had foretold far-fetched.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the...

1,320 MW Payra power plant inaugurated

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced cent-percent electricity coverage with inauguration of the 1,320MW Payra Thermal Power Plant, the largest of its kind, on the day....

BD sailor killed in Ukraine

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

The 28 sailors who survived a missile attack on the Bangladeshi ship 'Banglar Samriddhi' returned home from Rumania on Wednesday, creating an emotional atmosphere at...

Govt acts to stem price spiral

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

These women - some of them are even holding babies in their arms - scramble to buy daily commodities at a TCB sales point in...

Dollar price jumps over Tk100 mark--------

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

US dollar price jumped over Tk 100 mark for the first time in Bangladesh in May, prompting the central bank to begin a probe into...

Closure of schools, colleges amid Covid surge

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

On January 21, the government announced that all the schools and colleges of the country will remain closed from January 21 to February 6 in...

First mechanical heart implant performed

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

Bangladesh's first mechanical heart implant was successfully performed at a city hospital March 4.Dr Jahangir Kabir, the chief cardiac surgeon and director of the Cardiac...

New gas zone discovered amid fuel crunch---

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

State-owned exploration company BAPEX has discovered a new gas zone adjoining the currently- producing Salda gas field in Brahmanbaria, officials say, at a time of...

Runaway PK Halder held in India----

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

India held runaway businessman PK Halder, a prime suspect in the siphoning off the biggest amount of money from Bangladesh, along with five other associates,...

Former president Shahabuddin Ahmed

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

Shahabuddin Ahmed, the former president and chief justice of Bangladesh, has died at the age of 92 while receiving care at the Combined Military Hospital...

Ex-finance minister AMA Muhith

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, the former finance minister who ushered Bangladesh into the era of trillion-taka budget and whose policies helped shape its economy to...

Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

"Amar Bhaiyer Rokte Rangano"-famed eminent lyricist, journalist, political analyst, columnist and writer Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury passed away in London on May 19. He was 88.He...

Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah

2022-12-31 00:00:00

2022 The Year That Was

Parliament Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah died at a New York hospital on July 22. He was 76.Fazle Rabbi was admitted to Mount Sinai hospital...