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July 3, 2023

Building future with bricks of knowledge

Education has always been the backbone for a nation and teachers are considered as our nation builders. Ever since mankind discovered light at the end of the tunnel, science has added enhancements to reach there. Through education, students gain knowledge, skills, and values to address the environmental and social challenges of the coming decades. svrbTeachers are main contributors of education as they pass on knowledge and values in every generation as they play crucial roles in developing and touching one’s life. Systems of schooling involve instit...

Officers charged with Bangladeshi detainee’s murder

Two Perlis Immigration officers were tentatively charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with murdering a Bangladeshi detainee on Oct 29. extrajudicial killingMohd Aminnudin Mohd Yasin, 32, and Zuhairul Effendy Zualkafli, 32, allegedly killed Abu Bakar Siddiqe, 45, in the pantry at Level 2 of the Immigration premises at Kompleks KDN here, between 10pm and 11pm. The charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code, read with Section 34, carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction. Magistrate Nik Mohd Tarm...

Political Islam in Bangladeshi democracy

Recently Bangladesh was side-tracked from an electoral democracy. Earlier this year, the ruling party Awami League formed government after a one-sided election. Bangladesh’s major opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), boycotted the election on the grounds that it was not taking place under a neutral caretaker government and that elections held under partisan caretaker governments would not be fair. Since the early 1990s Bangladeshi political parties had agreed to hold national elections under non-partisan, neutral caretaker governments after the collapse of the Ershad regime and the coming of multiparty democracy. The 2014 election marked a sharp break with this tradition.

18th SAARC summit: Dhaka to focus on connectivity

Dhaka will place special emphasis on cooperation in areas like connectivity improvement, poverty alleviation and antiterrorism during the upcoming eighteenth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 26-27, Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said yesterday at the ministry. The other areas of cooperation that Bangladesh will highlight are food security, youth development, climate change, science and technology, education, SAFTA and service sectors and women empowerment, he told a press conference organised to brief journalists about Bangladesh’s participation in the summit. “We will discuss progress and prospect, but the special emphasis will be given on the issues mentioned,” he added.

RTGS system by Sept 2015

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) signed a deal with Sweden-based CMA Small Systems AB Thursday to introduce a Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system by the end of September 2015. "We're going to improve the high-value time critical payments in the country introducing the RTGS system," said BB Governor Atiur Rahman. bbDr. Rahman was addressing the signing ceremony as the chief guest at the central bank headquarters in the capital Dhaka. The central bank chief said the system will accommodate local currency transactions, government security transactions and domestic fo...