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The decision comes within two week after Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech said a Bangladesh Bank committee was working to work out strategies to broaden and accelerate financial inclusion effort. "The committee's work on formulating the outline for setting up the digital bank is now completed," Kamal said while presenting the proposed national budget for 2023-24 fiscal year. "In FY2023–24, we hope to be able to launch a digital bank. At the same time, we are developing a machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-based credit rating system. With these, it will be much easier to spot fake and anonymous borrowers and at the same time it will be considerably simpler for genuine borrowers to obtain loans," he said.

Head Of Government: Prime Minister: ... (Show more) Capital: ... (Show more) Population: (2023 est.) 166,663,000 ... (Show more) Head Of State: President: Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu ... (Show more) Form Of Government: unitary multiparty republic with one legislative house (Parliament [350 ... (Show more) Geography Fun Facts The Barind is a somewhat elevated triangular wedge of land that lies between the floodplains of the upper Padma and Jamuna rivers in northwestern Bangladesh. A depression called the Bhar Basin extends southeast from the Barind for about 100 miles (160 km) to the Chalan wetlands, also known as Chalan Lake. The floodplains of the Jamuna, which lie north of the Bhar Basin and east of the Barind, stretch from the border with In north-central Bangladesh, east of the Jamuna floodplains, is the Madhupur Tract. It consists of an elevated plateau on which hillocks ranging in height from 30 to 60 feet (9 to 18 metres) give sal trees, whose hardwood is comparable in value and utility to teak. East of the Madhupur Tract, in northeastern Bangladesh, is a region called the Northeastern Lowland. It Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. In east-central Bangladesh the In southern Bangladesh the Central Delta Basins include the extensive lakes in the central part of the Bengal Delta, to the south of the upper Padma. The basin’s total area is about 1,200 square miles (3,100 square km). The belt of land in southwestern Bangladesh bord...

On the banks of the Buriganga, Old Dhaka’s boatmen only ever rest a moment before making their return journey, endlessly ferrying passengers back and forth across the river. They pick them up at the Sadarghat docks, the historical trading hub that helped build the city, and row them towards the sprawling suburbs that have crept across what used to be open farmland two decades ago. Aerial view of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Photograph: M Rahman/Alamy Asaduzzaman Asad preceded most in his migration to the capital, arriving from the western district of Jhenaidah in 1966, when Dhaka was still the capital of East Pakistan, with the idea of starting a business. “This town was very small. The number of three-storey buildings were few and you mostly just saw tin-roofed homes. There were ponds and canals and very few people. It was peaceful,” says Asad. This town was very small. There were ponds and canals and very few people. It was peaceful Asaduzzaman Asad After independence in March 1971, Asad settled in Mohammadpur, an area still taking shape in the newly-settled north of the city. Dhaka was expanding quickly. In some areas the government allocated land for new arrivals to settle on, encouraging more migrants to head to the city. In other places, swathes of wetland and farmland were swallowed up by new neighbourhoods. Passenger ferries docked on the Buriganga during a Covid lockdown imposed by the government. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy New roads made travel and t...

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Bangladesh: History Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim dynasties until about 1700 From the 3rd century bce ce, As early as the 9th century, Arab traders brought Muslim rule in Bengal promoted a society that was not only pluralistic but also syncretic to some degree. The rulers largely remained uninterested in preaching religion. Rather, they concentrated on incorporating local Under the Mughals the political boundaries of Bengal expanded to become Suba Bangalah (the Province of Bengal), and economic activity increased. During the rule of the emperor nawab (viceroy) bhandralok. Initially, the bhandralok was dominated by upper-caste Hindus, but the Muslim presence began to increase toward the end of the 19th century. In time, this middle class emerged as the most active advocate of Indian self-government. The province of Bengal was almost impossible to administer, even after The partition elicited Following the reunification of Bengal, the Congress Party and the Muslim League worked together for self-government; among the leaders of this effort were Nawab Salimullah, In 1942 new rounds of political In March 1947 East Bengal as a Pakistani province, 1947–71 During Jinnah’s With a newly elected constituent assembly, Pakistan in 1956 at last adopted a constitution in which both the eastern and western wings of the country were equally represented. The new constitution also gave the federal government wide powers. Mirza became president and was In 1958 the government of Pakistan came u...