Muhammad Ali joined Social Islami Bank Limited as managing director on Thursday. Prior to his joining the bank, he was managing director of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited, said a news release. Ali started his banking career as probationary officer in Sonali Bank Limited in
Month: October 2010
StanChart relocates Uttara booth
Standard Chartered Bank recently relocated its Uttara booth to the ground floor of Update Tower at Shahjalal Avenue at Uttara Model Town in Dhaka. Standard Chartered Bangladesh chief executive officer Jim McCabe, retail distribution regional head Jaydeep Gupta and Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka consumer banking head
Premier Bank opens 2 WASA bill collection booths
The Premier Bank Limited opened two WASA bill collection booths- one on Darus Salam Road at Mirpur and another at Shahjalal Avenue at Uttara in Dhaka on Wednesday. Dhaka WASA managing director Md Tuksim A Khan and deputy managing director Syed Golum Ahmed inaugurated the Mirpur and Uttara WASA booths respectively as chief guests, said
“Anubhabey Shimanto” on Channel i
Telefilm “Anubhabey Shimanto” will be aired today at 3:10 pm on Channel i. Written by Farhad Limon, the telefilm has been directed jointly by Sajjad Soni and MA Munna. Inter-relationship crisis is the central theme of the film. The story zooms in on a family. It unfolds, when young Anubhab finds his father’s diary. The ... Read more
No Biman flight today, tomorrow
8 flights cancelled yesterday, 60 pilots call in ‘sick’, 1,000 passengers uncertain about travel plans There will be no flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines today and tomorrow. For the first time in over two decades Biman has cancelled all international and domestic flights for two days. Hajj flights, however, will take to the sky as ... Read more
Publishers, writers shirk blame
Unauthorized guidebooks Publishers, writers shirk blame Publishers and writers of unauthorised guidebooks are applying various devices to outwit the National Curriculum and Text Book Board authorities who have initiated a move to take action against the wrongdoers. A number of publishers flatly denied their involvement in marketing such illegal guidebooks and blamed ‘invisible hands’ for the ... Read more
Police pick up two women
Champa Rani murder Police pick up two women Faridpur: The police on Thursday interrogated two women, including stepmother of Rony Saha, who killed Champa Rani Saha at Madhukhali in Faridpur after Champa had protested at the harassment of her daughter on Tuesday. The police said they had picked up Rony’s stepmother Pramita Rani Saha and ... Read more
Main accused in Mizaur murder case arrested
Natore: Abdul Awal Rajan, one of the two accused of killing Lokmanpur college teacher Mizanur Rashid, was arrested on Thursday. Mizanur died in BSMMU Hospital in Dhaka on October 24 after being wounded in an attack by Rajan and Asif Ali on October 12 as he protested at the harassment of
CNG station owners defer strike until Nov 25
CNG refueling station owners’ scheduled strike from November 1 was deferred until November 25, following a meeting yesterday with State Minister for Power and Energy Mohammad Enamul Haque. The owners had earlier announced a non-stop strike from November 1 to press home their six-point demand, including withdrawal of Government order for six-hour closure of
Yaba inside abdomen
Doctors remove pouch with 1,500 tablets Doctors of a private clinic in the port city removed a pouch of Yaba tablets from the abdomen of a middle-aged male patient last Tuesday. Bulu Miah, the 44-year-old patient, wanted to make some quick money, Tk 2,000. In exchange, all he had to do was to transport around ... Read more
Siddikur starts steadily
Siddikur Rahman finished level on seventh place alongside two-time US Open champion Retief Goosen, and ahead of Robert Allenby in the PGA Tour-sanctioned CIMB Asia Pacific Classic in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Bangladesh’s first and only professional golfer hit three birdies and a single bogey in his first round effort, scoring 69 and ending with two under ... Read more
NCL third round today
Under-performing Tigers will have one last chance to prove themselves for a spot in the national team when the third round of the National Cricket League one-day version will be played today. The players of the 20-member preliminary squad for the five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe will not be allowed to play any more game ... Read more
Sobura, Sonia set new nat’l records
Experienced swimmer Sobura Khatun and rising star Sonia Akhter of Bangladesh Ansar ruled the pool setting two new national records each on the first day of the Walton 24th National Swimming Championships at the National Swimming Complex on Thursday. Mahfizur Rahman of Bangladesh Army also set a new national mark in his favourite 50 metre
Viqarunnissa clinch handball title
Viqarunnissa Noon School and College emerged champions in the 13th Delta Life Women’s College Handball defeating Siddheshwari College by 4-2 goals in a keenly-contested final at the Paltan handball stadium on Thursday. Viqarunnissa led the first half 2-0 and added another two in the second. Bitasta and Dina scored a brace each for the winners ... Read more
Six Seasons GM Chess begins on Sunday
The Berger Six Seasons Grand Masters Chess, seen as a warm-up tournament for the Asian Games-bound Bangladesh chess players, will begin at the Uttara Club on Sunday. The tournament will pit three grandmasters Ziaur Rahman and Niaz Murshed of Bangladesh and Vakhodiv Tair of Uzbekistan. Minhazuddin Ahmed, Abu Sufian Shakil and Mehedi Hasan Parag, the ... Read more
Close shave for tenants
Building on Jheel Close shave for tenants Mizanur Rahman has just finished constructing his three-storey building in a jheel (a long pool of water) at Norda in the capital’s Dakkhinkhan area. He had rented it out to tenants who were supposed to move in from Monday next. The building toppled on a tin-shed house at ... Read more
Biman in deep crisis
Pilot strike continues, old fliers called for emergency duty, hundreds of passengers stranded at airports Hundreds of passengers of international and domestic routes have been stranded at the Shahjalal International Airport for the last couple of days as the authorities were forced to cancel or reschedule flights of the national flag carrier Biman following strike ... Read more
Stalker kills mother
Girl’s harassment Stalker kills mother Stalkers in killed a mother at Madhukhali in Faridpur and severely injured two brothers in Chandpur for their protest at harassment of girls on Tuesday. In Faridpur, Champa Rani Biswas, 52, wife of Swapan Biswas, was killed in the evening when a stalker riding a motorcycle ran into her after ... Read more
Enough laws to protect women but little enforcement
Stalking has led many impressionable schoolgirls to commit suicide, and these social crimes are going on unabatedly in spite of the government’s repeated declarations that they will not be tolerated. Such debasement of females has become one the most serious social problems although the government has launched several awareness programmes, and the police have been ... Read more
Bangladesh slips to 96th position
Prosperity Score Bangladesh slips to 96th position Bangladesh has slipped nine places to 96th on a list of the world’s most successful countries, mainly due to lower performances in education, personal freedom, health, and safety and security. The country stood 87th in the 2009 ranking of Prosperity Index, a survey of the Legatum Institute, a ... Read more