Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority of Bangladesh (IDRA) has introduced a digital e-receipt service aimed at putting an end to the issuance of handwritten or printed paper receipts issued by insurance companies against premium received from their respective policyholders. The IDRA thus
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan left us exactly one year back. The embodiment of wisdom, humility and love for humanity left us on February 6 last year at the age of only 60. At the fag end of his life, he almost completed the process of authoring a book for publishing from an international publishing compa
Wali-ul-Maroof Matin (1962-2020) was the one who pursued certain dreams for stock market development two decades ago and some developments are now being visible. This scribe first met him in mid-1998 when he was the second top professional of Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). He was then the de fac
The Google Flood Forecasting Initiative has partnered with the Bangladesh Water Development Board to bring Google's warnings and services to Bangladesh, which experiences more flooding than any other country in the world. Google currently covers more than 40 million people in Bangladesh, and the w
Life of Jannatul Ferdous had never been easy. It was full of difficulties and numerous challenges. It seemed life was unnecessarily punishing her. Jannatul, mother of two children, has hearing impairment. Despite all these, she managed well in her married life. She along with her two loving childre
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, an embodiment of wisdom, humility and lover of humanity, left us on February 06, 2020, at the age of 60 years. Educated in Economics at Dhaka University, George Washington University and Kansas State University, the USA, he spent many years in leading corporate houses, but l
If you ask a credulous student about the elaboration of ICC, he or she would definitely reply it stands for International Cricket Conference (instead of Council), similarly International Development Association has been printed as 'International Development Authority' in the latest edition of 'Bang
Past and present have become inextricably intertwined in a book, authored by Md Matiul Islam, Bangladesh's first finance secretary. 'Recollections Of A Civil Servant-Turned Banker', the 268-page book is basically all about what he saw, heard and did when he was in the thick of things as a bu
