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Punjab National Bank (abbreviated as PNB) is an Indian government public sector bank based in New Delhi. [ 5] It was founded in May 1894 and is the second-largest public sector bank in India in terms of its business volumes, with over 180 million customers, 12,248 branches, and 13,000+ ATMs. [ 6][ 3] PNB has a banking subsidiary in the UK (PNB ...
The government of Bangladesh has played its trump card in its long-running campaign against Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus. Last week, legislators passed a law that effectively nationalizes the bank, which pioneered the idea of making small loans to poor women, by wresting control of it from the 8.4 million rural women that own a ...
Japan's election observer mission, led by Masato Watanabe, former Ambassador to Bangladesh, reported some irregularities but overall welcomed the peaceful conduct of the 12th general elections in Bangladesh. Despite incidents of violence during the pre-election period, Japan expresses hope for Bangladesh's progress as a democratic nation ...
CoreStates Financial Corporation, previously known as Philadelphia National Bank (PNB), was an American bank holding company in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. The bank was renamed in the mid-1980s after a series of mergers. After being acquired by First Union Corporation, which later also acquired Wachovia National Bank to ...
The central bank of Bangladesh is known as Bangladesh Bank. Under the Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972, Bangladesh is established on 16 December 1971. The chief executive of the bank is described as Governor. The 13th and most recent Governor is Ahsan H. Mansur. [1] [2]
After the presidential election of 1978, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was established on 1 September. [35] The newly established party soon emerged as a "hotchpotch" of leftists, rightists, opportunists , and Pakistan-era establishmenterians .
Bangladesh Election Commission secretariat. Bangladesh Election Commission has its own secretariat as per Election Commission Secretariat Act 2009, which is headed by a secretary. The secretariat is located at Agargaon in Dhaka city and has Electoral Training Institutes and field offices at the Regional, District and Upazila/Thana levels ...
The 1981 Bangladeshi presidential elections were held on 15 November 1981. The result was a victory for the incumbent acting President Abdus Sattar of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who received 65.5% of the vote, beating his principal challenger Kamal Hossain of the Awami League. Voter turnout was 54.3%.