Twelve student organisations representing national minority communities at a press conference on Monday demanded a five-day government holidays in all educational institutions from April 12 to16 for their major festival, including Changkran, Sangrai, Sangkrai, Baisu, Bisu, Bihu, Sangraing, Thangren, and Bizhu...
Niranjan Chandra Debnath has joined Investment Corporation of Bangladesh as managing director through a notification issued by Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance, said a press release...
THE sorry state of the banking sector, which is crippled by alarmingly high non-performing loans and lingering governance crises, falls largely, if not squarely, on the Bangladesh Bank, which significantly lost its autonomy and suffered debilitating political interference during the authoritarian Awami League regime. A recent report prepared by an 11-member...
Economists in a latest task force report have blamed poor leadership and the Financial Institutions Division for the erosion of the Bangladesh Bank鈥檚 autonomy.
The Centre for Policy Dialogue on Wednesday suggested closing down the private commercial banks which are now under life support and the finance ministry鈥檚 Financial Institutions Division for the division鈥檚 鈥榙ubious鈥� role in the financial sector...
Speakers at an event on Thursday stressed the need for strengthening local government institutions to achieve national development goals...
Global Sufi Organisation on Thursday made a four-point charter of demands including security for Sufi institutions and a judicial investigation into recent attacks on shrines...
A SERIOUS shortage of teachers in government technical and vocational educational institutions is unacceptable. It shows the government鈥檚 lack of commitment to a sector that has a high potential to contribute to the economy. About three-fourths of the sanctioned positions for teachers in government technical and vocational educational institutions have been...
THE failure of the authorities to take measures to discipline and facilitate the ailing non-bank financial institution sector, crippled by an abnormally high defaulted loans, is unacceptable. More than 70 per cent of non-bank financial institutions are about to collapse. The Bangladesh Bank says that 21 of the 35 institutions have more than 50 per cent...
Fifty per cent of the loans issued by 21 non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) turned non-performing as of September, revealing a dire financial crisis in the sector...
The Bangladesh Bank has set the maximum age limit for entering jobs at the non-bank financial institutions to 32.
Green financing by banks and non-bank financial institutions declined in the July-September quarter amid a severe liquidity crisis and a challenging business environment after the political shift...
The amount of deposits in the country鈥檚 non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) dropped by Tk聽68 crore in the July-September period due to a lack of customer trust and confidence in the sector...
The government has fixed all fees except the monthly tuition fees for the students of Class VI to Class XII of non-government educational institutions across the country.
The Bangladesh Bank has asked all banks and non-bank financial institutions to implement rigorous security measures due to an increased risk of cyber attacks.
AFM Matiur Rahman has joined Karmasangsthan Bank as chairman on October 20 for the next three years from the date of joining, said a press release...
Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson won Nobel prize in economics on Monday to for research into wealth inequality between nations.
The amount of defaulted loans in the country鈥檚 non-bank financial institutions was 33 per cent of the sector鈥檚 total loans in June 2024, as the sour loans surged by Tk聽4,760 crore in a year...
The Bangladesh Bank on Thursday directed banks and non-bank financial institutions to upload borrower loan data on a monthly basis...
ATM Tariquzzaman, a commissioner of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, submitted his resignation letter to the secretary of the Financial Institutions Division on Tuesday...
Forcible and undignified resignations of the heads of different educational institutions, from schools to universities, are continuing across the country defying the interim government鈥檚 directives.
GOVERNMENT cultural institutions having remained closed for about a month and a half is unacceptable. Most of the cultural institutions under the ministry of cultural affairs and the ministry of women and children鈥檚 affairs in the capital have remained closed since mid-July, when the student movement turned violent after Awami League fronts and the...
Most of the cultural institutions under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Ministry of Women and Children鈥檚 Affairs have remained closed since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5 amid the student-led mass uprising...
Education adviser to the interim government, Wahiduddin Mahmud, said on Sunday that no force could be used against anyone to make them resign from any posts in any educational institutions...
The interim government on Tuesday engaged Md Mofidur Rahman, an additional secretary of the finance division, to look into the daily routine work of the financial institutions division secretary...
The government on Wednesday cancelled contractual聽appointment of National Board of Revenue chairman Abu Hena Md Rahmatul聽Muneem...
The adviser to the primary and mass education ministry, Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar, said on Monday that it would take a few more days to make academic activities at the primary level educational institutions normal...
Different educational institutions, including universities, across the country reopened on Tuesday after half a month amid very low attendances of students.
Education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury on Sunday said that educational institutions would be reopened in appropriate time after ensuring the security of students...
Around 52.57 per cent people are still outside financial inclusion as they do not have any accounts with the monetary institutions mostly regulated under the Bangladesh Bank.聽..