The government has cancelled the remaining tenure of the contractual appointments of the managing directors (MDs) and chief executive officers (CEOs) of three state-owned banks. The three banks are Agrani Bank PLC, BASIC Bank PLC and Bangladesh Development Bank PLC (BDBL).
The Directorate General of Health Services has informed that four more people have died with measles symptoms in the last 24 hours in the country. With this, a total of 983 people have died in the country after being infected with measles and measles symptoms since March 15.
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) have called a protest rally in front of the National Press Club tomorrow Thursday demanding immediate formation of the 10th Wage Board for media workers, declaration of interim dearness allowance and implementation of the 9th Wage Board award including arrears.
Mirza Abbas, BNP Standing Committee member and Prime Minister’s political adviser, is returning home after long treatment in Singapore and Malaysia after five and a half months. His wife Afroza Abbas is accompanying him.
High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi has paid a courtesy call on Deputy Speaker of the National Parliament Barrister Kayser Kamal. This meeting was held at the office of the Deputy Speaker in the National Parliament Building on Wednesday (September 2).
Bangladesh Bank spokesperson and Executive Director Arif Hossain Khan has informed that the amount of non-performing loans in the country’s banking sector stood at 6 lakh 6 thousand 555 crore Tk at the end of June this year. This amount is 32.78 percent of the total loans disbursed by the banks.