In chapter-4 of the book ‘Three men on a boat’- Jerome K Jerome lamented about weather forecast. In his unparallel sarcastic tones, he wrote-“I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this “weather-forecast” fraud is about the most aggravating. It “forecasts” precisely what happened
Author: Faisal Mahmud
The way forward: rooting for our home-grown CBS
In the beginning of the last decade, banks in Bangladesh gradually started shifting from maintaining financial data in pages of manual ledgers to computer hard drives. The apparent ‘magic manager’ that helped them keeping together a mammoth and complex set of data amalgamation of banking ecosystem is the core banking
‘We have one of the youngest fleets in the world’
Biman’s headquarter—the Balaka building—would remind anyone of the bygone days. Post-and-beam structures with marble mill-decking floors; the dusty, drafty, energy-inefficient building also has lousy acoustics. Inside, on the first floor, sits a man of modern thoughts—Shakil Meraj, the General Manager (Public Relations) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. The Fintech team recently went
Bangladesh tops list of growth rate of high net worth individuals: economists give mixed reactions
Bangladesh’s economists have welcomed the recent news of the country topping the list with the highest growth rate of the ultra rich, albeit with reservations. They pointed out that it is a “sort of good news”, interpreting it as an indicator of the country’s overall macroeconomic development. They, however, termed the growing
AIIB KEEN TO INVEST IN WATER MANAGEMENT, COMMUNICATION PROJECTS
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is interested to invest in the country’s water management and communication projects aimed at turning Bangladesh as a developed nation in the global arena. “We want to expand our investment in Bangladesh. We are looking forward to invest in municipal water supply and communication sector development,”
CELL IN STATE-OWNED COMMERCIAL BANKS TO MONITOR, RECOVER DEFAULT LOANS
SKILLS PORTAL MATCH MAKES THE UNEMPLOYED YOUTH WITH THEIR DESIRED JOBS
Creating a bridge between job seekers and employers is a task performed by any well designed job portal. What this sort of portals sometimes lack is a holistic approach of getting the unemployed youths a job that dovetails with their skill. A new portal, dubbed as “Skills Portal” (skills.gov.bd) is there
‘Mobile network by itself is an instrument that works as an enabler’
BTRC yet to enforce operator compliance with QoS
The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is yet to implement the instructions that are necessary to ensure the quality of services for mobile phone operators, in spite of the directive of the Prime Minister’s ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy in this regard. Recently, Joy directed mobile phone operators to ensure
Pressing Buttons…Casting Votes!
With national parliamentary election lying ahead by yearend, much debate has been going on about the security and effectiveness of using electronic voting machine (EVM). So far the election commission (EC) has successfully used the EVM machine developed by the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT) of BUET on a
