New Nation Supplement

Dr. Md. Enamul Hoque :The New Year 2021 is like a blank notebook. It is a time when we can set our goals for the New Year. We may get to write anything we want in it. We can fill the first page of our notebook with our New Year’s resolutions. It shows you have the belief and hope in your ability to change habits and become a better you.Learning to live the life to the fullest is an important...

Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director and CEO of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL), the leading private commercial bank of the country shared his experience with The New Nation over the backdrop of establishing IBBL, its activities and achievements in the 33 years of journey. Senior Reporter Mohammed Badrul Ahsan has taken the interview.NN : What were the initiatives for establishing Islami Bank in Bangladesh:Mannan: The initiatives of establishing Islamic banking in Bangladesh had been taken firstly at government level. On...

Mohammad Badrul Ahsan :Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed, a former governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB), has opined that the government should concentrate more on improving investment climate in the country to accelerate business activities.He said that only lower interest of fund would not work well if the situation was not improved. “I strongly believe that only low cost of fund cannot play roll to boost investment. Quality of infrastructure and power and energy also have impact on the issue,” he said.He added:...

Kazi Mohammad Mortuza AliChief ConsultantPrime Islami Life Insurance Limited. : Kazi Mohammad Mortuza Ali, former Managing Director of Prime Islami Life Insurance Co Ltd (PILICL) who is presently serving the company as Chief Consultant has shared his years of experience on Islami insurance with the New Nation (NN). Senior Reporter Gazi Anowarul Hoque has taken the interview.NN: Could you please state what is the benefit of Life Insurance a new person will be attracted for?Mortuza: Life insurance is a unique...

Kazi Nazrul Islam :When I am preoccupied with nothing in particular, rather with misdeed; I don’t think much, what I was or what I am going to be infuture, indeed. Weaving the net of fascination in the blackboard of my vision, the fatal desires keep sucking on the young blood with vam-pire’s precision. Quite knowingly I am moving, with every step I take,toward the bottom pit that we must avoid for our own sake. Right then I wake up at...

Md Joynal Abedin Khan :January 1 : A man watches New Year’s fireworks explode over Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.January 4: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic congresswomen pose together outside the US Capital. A record number of women elected to Congress were key to Democrats reclaiming the majority in the House.January 7 : Awami League President Sheikh Hasina sworn for the fourth time as Prime Minister of the Government of Bangladesh. She will be serving as the...

Muhammad Quamrul Islam :We are of the generation of early 1940s who were imbued with the spirit of mother language movement at the junior level of our School naturally, when we heard from classmates and seniors about Police firing in Dhaka on students and common people, who accepted martyrdom demanding Bengali as state language on Februay21, 1952. We came out of the class, joined in procession and paraded roads of the town raising full throated slogans ‘blood of martyrs will...