Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Standard Bank Ltd. presiding over its 18th AGM at a city convention center on Sunday. The AGM approved 5pc cash & 5pc stock dividend for the shareholders for the year 2016. SAM Hossain, Vice-Ch

Habibur Rahman and Syed Faridul, Deputy Managing Directors of Prime Bank Ltd, planting trees at Dhaka Residential Model College premise as part of celebrated Earth Day 2017. Brigadier General Md Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Principal of the college and Mohd. Raf

Economic Reporter :
Bangladesh and its South Asian neighbors can make their container ports more efficient by boosting private sector participation, improving governance and encouraging competition in order to grab a bigger share of international trade and create more jobs, says a media release.
While noting that Bangladesh and South Asia have had impressive economic growth in the last two decades, the new report Competitiveness of South Asia's Container Ports shows that inefficiencies in the region's ports threaten to hinder progress and stop it from matching other regions like East Asia.
The report found that if ports in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan had been as efficient as those of Sri Lanka it could have cut shipping costs by up to nearly 9 percent, boosting the value of the region's exports by up to 7 percent.
"As China is shifting out of labor-intensive sectors such as apparel, Bangladesh has the potential to capture a growing share of the global market.  And improving the performance of Bangladesh's container ports is a key step toward increasing trade and creating new jobs for the country's growing labor force," said Qimiao Fan, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.
In Chittagong, which handles over 90 percent of Bangladesh's container traffic, the lack of investments and the growth in exports of ready-made garments in Bangladesh have forced the port to operate almost at capacity and caused very high turnaround and waiting times.
The report urges Bangladesh and its South Asian neighbors to build greater private sector participation, improve governance of port authorities and create more competition within and between ports to strengthen their economies.

Arastoo Khan, Chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, presiding over its training programme of Rural Development Scheme (RDS) of Rajshahi Zone at a local hotel recently. Professor Syed Ahsanul Alam, Vice Chairman, Md Abdul Hamid Miah, Managing Directo

The Quarterly Business Development Conference of Noakhali and Comilla Zones of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was held at Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) in Cotbari, Comilla on Saturday. Md. Abdul Hamid Miah, Managing Director and CEO of the bank was present as the chief guest in the conference. Presided over by Muhammad Amirul Islam, Executive Vice President and Head of Comilla Zone,  Md. Mahbub-ul-Alam, Md. Shamsuzzaman, Md. Munirul Moula and Abu Reza Md. Yeahia, Deputy Managing Directors addressed the conference as the special guest.   Muhammad Rokan Uddin, Executive Vice President and Head of Noakhali Zone delivered welcome address. Managers, Manager Operations and Departmental In-charges of the branches under both zones participated in the conference. The conference reviewed the quarterly business performance of the branches of both zones and gave them necessary instructions & guidelines to achieve their business target, said a statement.