Dhaka March 15, 2025, 4:31 am
The World Bank looks forward to continue working with the government of Bangladesh, private sector, and civil society groups towards the sustainable management of plastics
However, holidaymakers can collect new banknotes, popularly used as ‘Eidi’ or Eid tips, as the central bank has provided the notes to cash counters and ATM booths of commercial banks and its 10 branch offices
They are appointed for a period of six years extending through 26 April 2027.
Bangladesh Bank instructed banks to continue operations with a limited workforce and to ensure transport for bank staff
All the scheduled banks have been asked to keep 1 percent of their net profits for the next five years from current year for providing start-up entrepreneurs with loans
The investment will help to keep businesses open and preserve jobs, which is critical to sustaining the Bangladeshi economy
The institutions can reopen one branch in Dhaka and another outside the capital besides relevant departments in the headquarters on Thursday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
The Bangladesh Bank has instructed all the commercial banks to operate the special banking hours from 11:00am to 1:30pm for clearing cheques among the inter-banking services during the extended lockdown
A Bangladesh Bank circular, issued on Tuesday, gave this relaxation to the bank borrowers
According to the BB, banks will remain open from 10 am to 1pm except weekly holidays and government holidays to ensure banking service for the people
The central bank also asked banks not to adjust the compensations with any other liabilities of the bank
The system was suspended on Tuesday last due to a technical fault in the optical fiber of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL)
Demanding exemplary punishment of those incited him to take his own life, Morshed’s wife Ishrat Jahan Chowdhury and mother Nur Nahar have sought justice from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
The World Bank is also set to give Bangladesh US$50 crore which can be used to buy vaccines for 30 percent of the total population
Bank branches at sea, land and airport can be kept open for import-export activities at this time
At the end of March, banks and financial institutions disbursed 72.31 percent of the total package
Applications will have to submit to BIDA (formerly Board of Investment) at least one month before maturity of the deferred imports concerned
The deceased was identified as Md Nazrul Islam, hailing from Naldanga area in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal made the request at a virtual meeting between a Bangladesh delegation and a World Bank delegation yesterday evening as part of the ongoing spring meetings 2021 of the IMF and World Bank Grou
Wearing of face-mask was common among the clients during the rearranged banking hours from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm while the other safety instructions were not followed by the clients on the premises of banks