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Sanath Manatunge, Global Managing Director, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC. Photo: Courtesy

'Priority Banking is a strategy to build a sustainable core deposit base'

In an interview with The Business Standard, Sanath Manatunge, Global Managing Director of Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, explained how priority banking will support the bank’s business growth

Photo: Courtesy

A decade of delivery, determination and digital transformation

President Mohammed Shahabuddin. File photo: Collected

Pressure mounted on me to declare state of emergency, but 3 service chiefs opposed it: President Shahabuddin

A screengrab of BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman during an interview with Deutsche Welle released on Tuesday, 10 February 2026. Photo: Screengrab/Collected

BNP confident in forming govt alone: Tarique tells Deutsche Welle

Hamidur Rahman, BNP nominated candidate for Dhaka-7. Photo: TBS

‘Regardless of who wins or loses the polls, I want to work together with everyone’

Bida Executive Chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun. Sketch: TBS

Projects with strong water and recycling practices get priority approval

BNP Dhaka-9 candidate Habibur Rashid Habib. Photo: TBS

Win or lose, will keep working for people: BNP Dhaka-9 candidate Habib

Dr Md Arifur Rahman, CEO of Young Power in Social Action (YPSA). Photo: Collected

'Adaptation finance must triple and become grant-based'

File photo of Manjeet Dhakal. Photo: TBS

Adaptation finance one of the main agenda as COP30 edges forward, says LDC negotiator Manjeet Dhakal

File photo of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Photo: PID

July killings: Hasina in latest interview says mistakes were made by some security forces members, but shows no remorse

Actor Robert De Niro gave an interview on MSNB on the “No Kings” Day protests, Democratic leadership, and the importance of “fighting fire with fire” against Donald Trump. Screengrab: MSNBC/Youtube

Robert De Niro calls Trump 'an alien who wants to hurt this country' in MSNBC interview

A black-and-white image shows Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai at the Budapest Book Festival, Budapest, Hungary, April 22, 2013. Photo: Reuters

Only the present exists, past a mere story, future never arrives: Nobel Laureate writer Krasznahorkai

Limits on family participation, shareholding and directors’ tenure risk investor confidence

Limits on family participation, shareholding and directors’ tenure risk investor confidence