Tag: Insurance
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Midland Bank and Zenith Islamic Life Insurance sign bancassurance agreement
Head of Retail Distribution Division and Chief Bancassurance Officer, Mohammed Rashid Akhtar, Bancassurance Manager, Midland Bank's Khondokar Imran Hussain and Company Secretary Abdur Rahman, Head of Bancassurance Mohammed Shahadat Hussain, Zenith's Head of Group Insurance Anwar Hussain including both life at the government event. Other officials of the organizations were present.
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Insurance will again be made mandatory for bikes and other vehicles
Cabinet Secretary Mehboob Hussain later told the media that the draft law included a provision to impose a fine of up to Tk 3,000 on vehicles driven without insurance. Bangladesh Insurance Association (BIA) has welcomed the initiative and said it will be beneficial for both insurers and vehicle owners. BIA vice-chairman Nasir Uddin Ahmed told…
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38 million people in Bangladesh suffer from kidney diseases: urgent need for awareness and government support
Addressing the programme, AK Azad Khan, National Professor and President of Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, stressed the need for effective campaigns to spread awareness on kidney disease prevention, diabetes and hypertension management. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's personal physician Professor ABM Abdullah stressed on prevention of kidney disease rather than treatment. He told that uncontrolled blood…
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Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant: Who will bear the insurance liability?
Several inter-ministerial meetings have already taken place on who will handle the insurance for damages due to a nuclear incident. General Insurance Corporation said that they have the capacity to run the insurance. The matter has already been reported to the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. General Insurance Corporation officials said that many people in the…
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IMF considering loan approval to Sri Lanka even without assurance from China: Bloomberg News
Under a rarely used policy, the global lender may consider approving the island nation’s debt, as the only obstacle to moving forward is a formal assurance from China, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. “The Sri Lankan authorities continue to seek financing assurances from their official bilateral creditors so that the Fund’s executive…