OPEC Fund to sign framework deal with Bangladesh for wider co-op

The OPEC Fund will sign a framework agreement for 3 to 5 years for having a wider cooperation with Bangladesh. President of OPEC Fund Dr. Abdulhamid Alkhalifa said this in a meeting with Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in Austria. A fruitful discussion was held between them.  The Finance Minister thanked OPEC Fund for its contribution in the socio-economic development of Bangladesh by providing $693.61 million in favour of 32 projects, said a press release. Ali thanked the Fund for helping Bangladesh during the crying time of COVID by providing a budget support. He also acknowledged the Fund's initiative in providing support to the private sector of Bangladesh.  He urged the Fund to provide more support in building a part of "Smart Bangladesh". In response, the President of OPEC Fund stated that he was amazed by the recent development of Bangladesh.  As a trusted development partner, he assured that the OPEC Fund will ...

UCB, SMEF collaborate for credit wholesaling programme

United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) and SME Foundation have formalized a pivotal partnership aimed at bolstering credit access for CMSME (Cottage, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) customers through a Credit Wholesaling Program. Recently the agreement was formalized at a city hotel , marks a significant step towards providing low-cost credit support to SMEs across Bangladesh.Salahuddin Mahmud, Acting Managing Director of SME Foundation, and Md Shah Alam Bhuiyan, Deputy Managing Director of UCB,...

EBL opens ATM services at Dhaka metro rail station

The Eastern Bank PLC (EBL) has become the first financial institution to introduce ATM services at Dhaka metro rail stations.The first ever ATM set up at Agargaon metro station will provide 24/7 seamless services to metr...

Dhaka, Thimphu to strengthen environmental, energy co-op: Saber

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury said Bangladesh and Bhutan will strengthen Environmental and Energy Cooperation.“Our bilateral cooperation can serve as a model for regional and global partnerships. With collaboration, we can overcome any obstacles and create a brighter, greener tomorrow for our nations and the world,” he said while speaking in a bilateral meeting with Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Bhutan, Gem Tshering, at his office in Thimphu, Bhutan on Tuesday.It is incumbent upon us to take decisive actions that will safeguard our natural resources for future generations, he addedSaber, as outgoing Chairman of the South Asia Cooperative Environment Program (SACEP) congratulated SACEP's new Chairman, Energy and Natural...

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Tigers experience hard truth of ‘Super Eight’

Bangladesh faced the hard truth of the ‘Super Eight’ stage, as they could hardly be more into the contest in any of their three matches of this phase when they showed of their familiar signs of fallibility in the matches against Australia, India and Afghanistan. Despite a struggling progress into the second phase, it was highly expected that Bangladesh would do something impressive in the ‘Super Eight’ following three wins of group stage but disappointed much after going down in all three matches too miserably. In fact, Bangladesh revealed their usual temper of foibles in the ‘Super Eight’ phase when they bitterly suffered the defeats.       Bangladesh began the campaign of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 swith defeating Sri Lanka, then went down fighting four-runs defeat to South Africa, who ultimately stormed into the semifinal. Bangladesh then won their last two matches in a row against Netherlands and Nepal to seal the ‘Super Eight’ place.  But none of those matters because Sri Lanka had to play in the qualifying phase for T20 World Cup and could win only one match against Netherlands, lost to South Africa and the match against Nepal was abandoned.     However, Bangladesh showed a kind of ‘Chokers’ character against South Africa in the first round and in the last match in the ‘Super Eight’ against Afghanistan. In the group stage against South Africa, they failed to score seven runs from last three balls when they had to struggle also against N...

BNP becomes isolated from people

There is no foreign pressure for the restoration of the caretaker government system in Bangladesh. No countries, including  European Union, the USA, the UK, have any interest in Bangladesh’...

Joy turns tragedy for many families

We express our profound shock and sorrow at the tragic death of 11 people, including seven of a family who were killed when a microbus carrying a bridal party plunged into a river in Amtali upazila of Barguna district on Saturday. We are also saddene...

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