In rural Bangladesh, dozens of women on wheels are biking into remote villages and hooking up poverty-stricken families to the net. Thanks to ‘Infoladies’, tens of thousands of people are connecting with social media, chatting to loved ones, and getting government services.
The project is the brainchild of a local development company called D.Net and was formally launched in 2010. It grew out of a previous program that used ‘Mobile ladies’ to hook rural villages up to the wider world with mobile phones. Then along came the Infolady association: young, educated women from rural backgrounds who bike into isolated villages with a laptop, giving people the chance to get online. But that’s not the only service they provide. They also dish out advice on health – including taboo subjects li...
Two Bangladeshi workers were killed after stored concrete blocks fell on them at a ready-mix concrete plant in Al Hidd Industrial area of Bahrain on Thursday, the Daily Star reports.
The victims were identified as Billal Hossain, 32 and Younus Sikder, 37, Mohidul Islam, first secretary (labour) at Bangladesh embassy in Bahrain confirmed The Daily Star.
“The Bangladeshis were killed on the spot when a crane carrying a five-ton piece of concrete accidentally hit the stored concrete blocks which in turn fell on the victims,” he added.
Al Kobaisi...
Power demand of Bangladesh can be a better bargaining point for India to get few important and old cross border issues resolved out. BJP, the first constituent of ruling NDA Government in India is keen on getting the issues squared up fast.
Bangladesh has taken up a plan to import 3,500 MW of electricity from SAARC countries by 2030 under its power sector master plan. With its geographical boundary surrounding Bengaldesh, India is best suited one in SAARC to export power to Bangladesh.
Bangladesh now imports 500MW from India. A process of furt...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the spread of Ebola in West Africa an international health emergency.
WHO officials said the possible consequences were “particularly serious” because of the virulence of the virus.
The announcement came after experts convened a two-day emergency meeting in Switzerland, BBC Online.
So far more than 930 people have d...
Thalif Deen
There is an age-old axiom in politics, says a cynical Asian diplomat, that you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
But that longstanding adage never applied to Israel, which although sustained militarily by the United States, has had no compunction at lashing out at Washington if the U.S. is ever critical of illegal settlements or human rights violations in the occupied territories.
“The U.S. government has continued to serve as an enabler for Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.”—Norman Solomon
Just over two years ago, minority Rohingya Muslims and majority Buddhists studied side by side in the capital of Rakhine state in western Myanmar.
This symbiotic relationship changed drastically after anti-Muslim violence erupted in the town of Sittwe in mid-2012, when authorities banned hundreds of the mostly darker-skinned Rohingya from returning to university, part of a system of racial segregation imposed in the name of keeping the peace.
Today, members of the Muslim minority group cannot set foot on the campus of Sittwe University and a handful of armed police near the university’s main entrance, along with a civilian guard at the gate, make sure no one breaks the rule.
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