The US-Bangla Airlines on Friday added another 72-seater brand new ATR 72-600 model aircraft to its fleet.

With the latest addition, it has 12 planes in its fleet, the highest among Bangladeshi private airlines.
 
The aircraft came straight from the factory in France and landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 3:25pm on Friday, said a press release from US-Bangla Airlines.

Monirul Haque Joarder, director operations, US-Bangla Airlines, and Musa Mullah, director administration, along with others, received the new plane.

The airline is planning to add one more brand new ATR 72-600 aircraft to its fleet by this month. It also plans to add four more brand new ATR 72-600 aircraft to its fleet by June 2020.

The airlines has been operating 10 flights to Chattogram, six to Cox’s Bazar, five to Jashore, four to Saidpur, two to Sylhet and Rajshahi and one to Barishal from Dhaka daily.
 
It has also been operating flights to Kolkata, Chennai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Guangzhou, Muscat and Doha.
 
With the slogan of ‘Fly Fast-Fly Safe’, US-Bangla airlines started its journey and acquired recognition for timely flight operation, international standard cabin service, good quality catering service, comfortable seat and proper passengers’ service.
 

The 57th Meeting of Islamic Banks Consultative Forum (IBCF) was held on Wednesday (January 15, 2020) in the Board Room of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited at Islami Bank Tower.

Prof. Md. Nazmul Hassan, Ph. D Chairman, Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. & IBCF presided over the meeting held at 4.00.P.M, said a press release.

The meeting decided to hold a national seminar on Islamic Banking and Finance in July 2020 and other relevant issues on Islamic Banking Industry.  

The meeting was attended among others by  M. Azizul Huq, Chairman, Pubali Bank Ltd., A K M Nurul Fazal Bulbul, Vice Chairman, IBCF, Sayedur Rahman, Vice Chairman, Social Islami Bank Ltd, Rumee A. Hossain, Chairman, Executive Committee, Bank Asia Ltd. Md. Mahbub -Ul-Alam, Managing Director, Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd, Farman R. Chowdhury,  Managing Director, Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd, Quazi Osman Ali, Managing Director, Social Islami Bank Ltd. M A Halim Chowdhury, Managing Director, Pubali Bank Ltd. Md. Habibur Rahman, Additional Managing Director, Southeast Bank Ltd., Md.Shahjahan Shiraj, Deputy Managing Director, Shahajalal  Islami Bank Ltd., A K M Shahnawaj, Deputy Managing Director, Dhaka Bank Ltd. and other senior executives.

RFL group’s popular housewares brand ‘Tel Plastic’, Footwear brand ‘Walkar’ and paints brand ‘Rainbow’ have organized dealers’ conference at RFL Industrial Park at Kaliganj, Gazipur.

About 2000 distributors took part at the conference held on Friday, said a press release. 

Ahsan Khan Chowdhury,Chairman and CEO of PRAN-RFL Group, RN Paul, Managing Director of RFL Group, Kamrul Hasan, Chief Operating Officer of Tel Plastic, Walkar Footwear and Rainbow Paints, Fahim Hossain, Assistant General Manager, Bashir Uddin, Deputy General Manager (Sales) and Jahirul Islam, Assistant General Manager (Sales), among others, were present at the function.

Walton and Marcel, two brand of the local electronics giant Walton Group, has set a target of selling 10 lakh (one million) units of television in the incumbent year.

This year’s target is about 66.67 higher than the previous year, said a press release.

Last year, the two local brands all together sold out 6 lakh units of LED and Smart television while the target was 5.02 lakh units, registering growth of 85 percent compared to 2018.

To celebrate the success in TV sales, Walton organised a day-long ‘Mega Achievement Celebration and Best TV Branding Award’ at its corporate office in the capital on Tuesday.

At the day-long function, a total of 27 employees of Walton and Marcel TV departments were honoured with Mega Achievement Celebration Award for outstanding contribution in surpassing the last year’s sales target. In addition, some 20 distributors and Plaza managers also received ‘Best TV Branding Award’ for conducting extra-ordinary advertisement of the ‘Saddhore Moddhe Srestha TV’ campaign’s Season-1.

Addressing the event, Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited Director Raisa Sigma Hima announced that this year they set a target of selling one million units of LED and Smart TV terming it as ‘Mission 1 Million’.

WHIL Chairman SM Nurul Alam Rezvi, Vice-Chairman SM Shamsul Alam, Managing Director SM Ashraful Alam, Directors SM Mahbubul Alam, Manjurul Alam Ovee, Mahbub Alam Mridul and Rifa Tasnia Swarna were present there.

WHIL’s Chief Marketing Coordinator Eva Rezwana, Walton Distributor Marketing’s Head Amdadul Haque Sarker, Plaza Sales and Development Division Head Mohammad Rayhan, Marcel Head of Sales Md Shakhawat Hossen, Executive Directors SM Zahid Hasan, Humayun Kabir, Uday Hakim, Golam Murshed, Tanvir Rahman, Sirajul Islam, Colonel (retd) Shahadat Hossain and Amin Khan, Walton International Business Unit President Edward Kim, Deputy Executive Director Firoj Alam and other senior officials of the company were also present at the programme.

Walton is offering six-month replacement facility, along with maximum 4 years guaranty on television’s panel.

The local brand has been delivering swift and best post sales service through its nationwide 73 service points under the ISO certified service management system.

The closing ceremony of a three-day business development conference of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) held at Hotel Royal Tulip Sea Pearl Beach Resort in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday.

Professor Dr Md Salim Uddin, FCA, FCMA, Chairman, Executive Committee of the bank addressed the concluding session as the Chief Guest.

Md Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director and CEO of the bank presided over the programme where Major General (Retd.) Engineer Abdul Matin, Chairman of Risk Management Committee addressed the programme as the special guest.

Mohammad Solaiman, FCA, Chairman of Audit Committee, Md Joynal Abedin, Syed Abu Asad, Md Quamrul Hasan, Professor Dr Mohammad Saleh Jahur and Mohammed Nasir Uddin, Directors of the bank and Prof Dr Mohammad Abdus Samad, Member Secretary of Sharia Supervisory Committee were present on the occasion.

Mohammed Monirul Moula and Muhammad Qaisar Ali, Additional Managing Directors along with Deputy Managing Directors, Head Office Executives, Head of Zones and Head of 357 Branches of the Bank attended the conference.