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Healthcare confidence erodes amid systemic weaknesses

Bangladesh's healthcare system continues to face mounting pressure from low public spending, rising treatment costs and slow adoption of modern technologies, experts and stakeholders said on Saturday.These systemic shortcomings that also include weak regulation and shortages of skilled professionals, they warned, have steadily eroded public confidence in healthcare services across...

National Bank achieves ISO certification

National Bank has achieved the internationally recognised ISO 27001:2022 Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification.On this occasion, a certificate handover ceremony was held at the bank's head office on Thursday. K. Nagaraj, Country Head of the multinational organization TÜV SÜD, formally handed over the certificate to Adil Chowdhury, Managing Director...

Google to build subsea cables in Papua New Guinea

SYDNEY, Dec 12 (Reuters): Alphabet's Google will build three subsea cables in Papua New Guinea, which the largest Pacific Island nation said was funded by Australia under a mutual defence treaty, in a key upgrade to its digital backbone.Australian and U.S. military strategists view resource-rich but largely under-developed Papua New...

Tobacco industry alarmed at govt's reluctance to allow stakeholder inclusive consultation

Leading companies in the tobacco industry in a joint statement on Thursday expressed their serious concern over the government's attempt to pass the proposed amendment to the Tobacco Control Act without a stakeholder-inclusive consultation in the absence of appropriate parliamentary process. Industry players believe that the proposed amendment will result...

SBAC Bank holds Annual Risk Conference -

SBAC Bank PLC has organised its Annual Risk Conference 2025 at the Training Institute of the bank's head office on Saturday. Mr. A.N.M Moinul Kabir, Director of Department of Off-site Supervision of Bangladesh Bank, attended the conference as the chief guest while Mohammad Nazmul Huq, Chairman of Risk Management Committee...