Bangladesh still needs to do a lot for financial inclusion: Máxima
Appreciating Bangladesh’s progress in terms of financial inclusion, Dutch Queen Máxima on Tuesday said the country still needed to do a lot to ‘accelerate’ financial inclusion bringing unbanked poor people under financial services.
Bhashani remembered as pioneer of independence
Political parties from both ruling and opposition camps paid tribute to the memory of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani marking his 39th death anniversary on Tuesday. At a discussion, some of them alleged that a quarter was trying to remove the name of Bhashani from history.
Khaleda to be arrested on her return: Ershad
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Monday said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will be arrested if she returns home from London on charge of embezzling orphans money.
49 banks at risk of facing new defaulted loans of Tk 5,570cr
Bangladesh Bank has assessed that 49 banks are at risk of facing up to Tk 5,570.14 crore in fresh non-performing loans at the end of this year.
PM meets president, reaffirms stance against terrorism
President Abdul Hamid and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday strongly denounced Paris attacks with the prime minister reaffirming her government’s strong stance against terrorism. The prime minister came up with the resolve against terrorism when she made a courtesy call on president Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban.
Cancer patients miss out on treatment
Over 15 lakh cancer patients in the country struggle to get treatment as there are only one bed for 3,000 cancer patients and only 85 posts of oncologists to treat them at government hospitals.
Dutch queen Máxima in city
In her capacity as the UN secretary-general’s special advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, Dutch queen Máxima arrived here on Monday morning on a three-day visit.
Fingerprint mismatch glitch hits biometric SIM registration trial
The country’s mobile phone operators on Sunday started piloting biometric verification of SIM registration with a glitch caused by mismatch between the subscribers’ fingerprints taken at their customer centres and those stored in the national identity card database of the Election Commission.
LOCAL ELECTIONS ON PARTISAN BASIS : Only mayor, chairman candidates to contest with party symbols
Stepping back from its previous decision, the government has now decided not to allow councilor and member candidates to contest local body polls with party symbols.
Dhaka Lit Fest-2015 to kick off Nov 19
The three-day Dhaka Literary Festival-2015 will be held on Bangla Academy premises in November 19-21.
