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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 9 No. 166

March 2009

National Probe committee gets another 30 days to prepare BDR mutiny report

M.A. Kader-Asian Tribune Correspondent in Bangladesh

The Bangladesh national Inquiry committee has once again sought time to end the probe into the border guard Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny and carnages at the BDR Headquarters in Dhaka. The 11-member national inquiry committee sought more time on Sunday to the government and the government has given them 30 more days to submit the findings of the killings. The committee was re-constituted on Mar 2 and it began work the following day.

Bank Management Strategies Should Be Radically Diversified To Accept The Post War Business Challenges

Edward Theophilus Wanigasekera

Trading bank system embarked to Sri Lanka with a bunch of selective objectives that were purely based on serving for commercial and plantation sectors through providing short term capital needs. Predetermined dominant objectives of these foreign owned banks were not clearly understood by the domestic businessmen and growing development sectors such as agriculture, industrial, construction and small business of the economy as they assumed that banks were established to support all sectors of the economy despite selective goals.