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The concept of green banking is becoming a buzzword in the financial and banking sector and in the common people of the world over the last few decades. This paper tries to highlight the present status of green banking practice, progress, and different green initiatives taken by the Bangladeshi banks to keep the environmental sustainability. Through content analysis of the annual reports of Bangladesh Bank (the Central Bank of Bangladesh), quarterly review report of green banking activities and annual review report of CSR activities, the study discovers that Bangladeshi banks are doing well in practicing sustainable baking with maintaining the specific guidelines of Bangladesh Bank. Though the green banking initiatives were introduced by Bangladesh bank in 2011 but within a short period, it’s achievement is mentionable. As the guardian of the banking companies, Bangladesh Bank provides a standardized guideline, and all the banks practice green banking activities according to its instruction along with their own policies. Mostly the banks insert their good news about green activities, investments, and achievements in their annual reports and also report to the Bangladesh Bank. This type of green practices aids the banking institutions to attract the regulator, customers, public and also get the greater legitimacy. As a developing country with lower technological advancement and minimum social and environmental awareness of the general people, Bangladeshi banking companies face many challenges to be green and environment-friendly. Finally, the study concludes with mentioning some suggestions to make the practices of green banking effective through gathering experiences from different research in advanced countries.

Work-Life Balance (WLB) or Work-Family Conflict (WFC) is one of the much talked issues in the modern business arena and all the stakeholder of business world such as- employers, employees, policy makers, academicians, consumers, and the common people are concerned about it. By considering the significances of the topic the researchers have taken an initiative to examine the present status of the WLB programs/ Employee friendly policies practices in the different organizations in Bangladesh through a designed questionnaire and interviewing the supervisors and employees of some selected organizations in multiple industries. Beside this the researchers also tries to explore what are the most wanted request comes from the employees, how the organizations respond against their requests, what perceptions bear the supervisor’s and the employee’s regarding WLB and what are the barriers may organization face to implement the WLB programs. The key findings of the research point out that most of the organizations in Bangladesh don’t have any formal policy to make work-life balance but they follow some informal approaches (flexibility in time, location, & schedule, leave provisions) to facilitates the employees WLB and make them relax, confident, committed and motivated towards their works to get satisfied employees and optimum HR productivity. The study concludes with mentioning some prospective outcomes of WLB which the organization may achieve by ensuring various WLB initiatives.

Three eggplant cultivars were inoculated with Verticillium dahliae Kleb. to assess their resistance to Verticillium wilt. Solanum tor was resistant, “Liyuanziqie ” was tolerant, and “ Xi’anlvqie” susceptible. The disease incidence and disease index of Verticillium wilt and the amount of V. dahliae in rhizospheric soil, variation of microbial composition, the allelopathy of root exudates to mycelium growth of V. dahliae and the chemical substances of root exudates from eggplant cultivars with different resistance to Verticillium wilt were investigated in this experiment. The results showed that the root exudates of resistant type could not only affect the growth and development of V. dahliae, but also influence V. dahliae indirectly through regulating soil microbial community composition. This may be one of the reasons for the increase of disease resistance. However, the susceptible type exhibited an opposite trend. It was inferred that the resistant type contained some particular components, such as acohd, amide, pyranoid, fluorene, while the susceptible one comprised more types of components, that is, ketone, phenol, ester and phenolic acid. Key words: Allelopathy, allelochemical, root exudates, eggplant, Verticillium dahliae, Verticillium wilt, microbial composition.

2Agriculture Technology Generalize Station of Dong’anshan Town, Anshan City, LiaoNing Province, 114041, China. Accepted 3 August, 2012 14 eggplant cultivars were inoculated by Verticillium dahliae to screen their resistance against verticillium wilt. The resistances were shown as the disease incidence and disease index, and eggplant cultivars were classified into resistant type (R), moderate resistant type (MR), tolerant type (T), moderate susceptible (MS) and susceptible type (S), according to the final disease index. To find out the correlated physiological and biochemical indexes for evaluating the resistance of eggplant to verticillium wilt, the activities of defense-related enzymes, and the contents of some biochemical substances of leaves were investigated. The results show that the activities of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) were significantly positively correlated with resistance (P