BRAC Bank has secured a US$50 million financing facility from an international financial institution to expand funding for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Bangladesh, with particular emphasis on women-owned businesses and agriculture-based enterprises. The financing will be channelled through the bank’s offshore banking unit and is structured as an unsecured working capital facility. […]

Bangladesh’s National Poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, is being remembered today on the 50th anniversary of his death. The poet died in Dhaka on 12 Bhadra 1383 in the Bengali calendar, bringing to an end the life of one of Bengal’s most influential literary figures. Five decades after his death, his poetry and songs continue to […]

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has claimed a major breakthrough in unraveling the murder of 29-year-old gold trader Al-Amin Hossain in Jessore. Officers arrested one of the primary suspects, 30-year-old Golam Rasul, during a targeted early-morning raid on Wednesday, 26 August, in Gopalganj district. The arrest took place at around dawn inside the residence […]