Policy reforms crucial for sustainable development: Debapriya
Economist and public policy analyst Debapriya Bhattacharya has emphasized that good governance and effective policy reforms are crucial for Bangladesh鈥檚 development journey...
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Experts for quality family interference in businesses
Experts suggested separating聽ownership from management of the family businesses to ensure long-term sustainability, with professional executives running operations under the ethical guidelines set by owners, experts said...
Prime Bank gets Sustainability Rating award
Prime Bank PLC has received prestigious 鈥楽ustainability Rating 2024鈥� award from Bangladesh Bank for the third consecutive year in recognition of its strong and consistent commitment to sustainability practices...
MTB ranked 4th top sustainable bank
Mutual Trust Bank PLC has once again been recognised for its strong commitment to sustainability, securing the 4th position among the top 10 sustainable banks for the year 2024, as announced by the Bangladesh Bank...
Jamuna Bank among BB鈥檚 top 10 sustainable banks
Jamuna Bank PLC has been recognised among the top 10 sustainable banks of 2024 by the Bangladesh Bank, said a press release...
NCC Bank gets BB honour as sustainable bank
NCC Bank has been recognised as one of the top 10 sustainable banks in Bangladesh, based on 鈥楽ustainability Rating 2024鈥� conducted by the Bangladesh Bank, said a press release...
Pubali Bank among top 10 sustainable banks
Pubali Bank PLC has been recognised as one of the top 10 sustainable banks in Bangladesh in Sustainability Rating 2024 by the Bangladesh Bank, said a press release...
35 ministries sign joint declaration on NCDs
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said that the joint declaration signed on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases would be a new milestone for health protection as it would help achieve the health-related sustainable development goals...
Steps taken to protect Bangladesh鈥檚 river and marine resources
The government has taken multi-pronged and long-term measures to protect the country鈥檚 river and marine resources, with a key objective of ensuring sustainable fishing from the sea for future generations, said Md Abdur Rouf, Director General of the Department of Fisheries...
Response for sustainable peace and stability
MYANMAR is a complex geopolitical milieu in the Indo-Pacific region that directly affects the connectivity between South and Southeast Asia. During colonial time, it was one geopolitical unit, but it is now practically divided. There is tension brewing at the midpoint between these two sub-systems. The internal insurgency and national integration problems of Myanmar...
Prime Bank holds seminar at SUST
To promote financial literacy and inspire youth engagement in the banking sector, Prime Bank PLC, in collaboration with the SUST Career Club, organised a seminar titled 鈥楩inancial Inclusion: Engaging and Inspiring Youth in Banking鈥� at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST)...
Sustainable planning in power sector urged
Bangladesh Society of Water and Power Engineers has recently held a seminar titled Sustainable Infrastructure and Strategic Planning: The Role of Engineers in Future Leadership at the Mukti Hall of the Power Building in Dhaka...
Businesses, policy leaders for accelerating SDG action
Sustainability Summit 2025, presented by AkijBashir Group and powered by SMC Enterprise Limited, returned for its second edition at the Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka on Saturday...
Engagement of youths in policymaking underscored
Public health experts, development activists and journalists, among other speakers, at a roundtable on Tuesday emphasised youth engagement in policymaking to promote their effective empowerment and ensure the country鈥檚 sustainable development...
SAF holds workshop to mark achievements of NICE
The Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Bangladesh, in partnership with Swiss TPH, ETH Zurich, Sight and Life has recently organised a closing workshop titled Celebrating Success and Sustaining Impact to mark the achievements of the Nutrition in City Ecosystems Project at Hotel InterContinental Dhaka...
SAF holds workshop to mark achievements of NICE
The Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Bangladesh, in partnership with Swiss TPH, ETH Zurich, Sight and Life has recently organised a closing workshop titled Celebrating Success and Sustaining Impact to mark the achievements of the Nutrition in City Ecosystems Project at Hotel InterContinental Dhaka...
IFIC Bank, SUST host financial literacy workshop
IFIC Bank PLC, in collaboration with Shahjalal University of Science and Technology鈥檚 anthropology department, has organised a financial literacy workshop to equip students with knowledge on financial management...
Salehuddin for refraining from approving unnecessary projects
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has cautioned against approving unnecessary large-scale projects that could undermine debt sustainability...
SUST begins 2-day training for security personnel
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology administration organised a two-day training programme for enhancing awareness and professional skills of security personnel to ensure discipline and safety on the campus.
Sri Lanka: balancing behaviour for sustainable outcomes
THE government is being judicious in reading the signs of the time. The country continues to be in the throes of the economic crisis that it inherited. It faces formidable challenges in confronting a combined opposition that governed Sri Lanka for the past 76 years. In addition, the world is in crisis with international law being openly disregarded in the joint US鈥慖srael...
Two SUST students expelled for raping classmate
The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology administration on Tuesday expelled the university鈥檚 two students for life on charge of raping a female classmate.
Journey in professional development
CLIMATE change has emerged as one of the most urgent crises of our time, bringing about widespread loss of human life and irreversible damage to nature. Extreme weather patterns 鈥� including rising temperatures, prolonged cold waves, water scarcity, wildfires, sea-level rise, flooding, polar ice melting, storms, landslides, hurricanes and a steep decline in biodiversity...
UNGCBN hosts IOCI for promoting sustainable ocean economies across global south
Bangladesh has recently been selected as one of seven emerging ocean economies to pioneer the Ocean Centres Initiative 鈥� a global effort to foster safer and more sustainable ocean economies in the global south...
IDCOL wins FinanceAsia award
Infrastructure Development Company Limited has won 鈥楤est Sustainable Bank 鈥� Bangladesh鈥� recognition at FinanceAsia Awards 2025, said a press release...
SUST suspends JCD activist
The authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Thursday suspended an activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, from the university on charge of attempting to attack his fellows.
BUP seminar explores governance, sustainable dev
The department of development studies under the faculty of arts and social sciences at Bangladesh University of Professionals organised a seminar titled 鈥楶olicy process, institutional reform and sustainable Development in Bangladesh: contemporary issues and challenges鈥� on its campus in Dhaka on Monday...
Consensus needed for sustainable reforms
Civil society members said on Sunday that a national consensus was essential for sustainable reforms in various sectors...
WB to provide $270m for sustainable upturn
A financing agreement was signed on Sunday between the government of Bangladesh and the International Development Association of the World Bank Group involving $270 million loan to implement the 鈥楤angladesh Sustainable Recovery, Emergency Preparedness and Response Project (B-STRONG)鈥�...
SUST holds seminar on Bangladeshi films: in search of own language
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology has recently held a seminar titled Bangladeshi Films: In Search of Own Language at the seminar room of Bangla department of the university in Sylhet.