The Social Business Day will be organised in Dhaka today with the aim of discussing ways to turn people into entrepreneurs for creating jobs as fighting unemployment has become a daunting task for countries around the world. The 5th annual event, organised by Yunus Centre, will take place at Radisson Hotel on the theme of “We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers -- Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship”. Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus will host the event and Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and...

More than one million Bangladesh expatriates in the UAE will have smart Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) by November 2015. The project was launched in Dubai by the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the UAE Mohammad Imran. [caption id="attachment_7506" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Right) Masudur Rahman, Consul General of Bangladesh and LIm Ping Ping, Manager Business Development and Marketing of IRIS during the launch of Machine Readable passports for Bangladeshi Nationals, organized by the Consulate of Bangladesh.[/caption] The project was granted to a consortium of companies - Grand Technology Resource (GTR), IRIS and C...

Bangladeshi workers facing trouble in Iraq due to the ongoing conflicts may travel to neighbouring Iran for a temporary shelter, Welfare and Overseas Empolyment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said Sunday. "Bangladeshi migrants in Iraq are still safe as they are not target of any groups involved in intense fighting. If any emergency situation arises, we may set up makeshift tents near the Iranian border for our people," Hossain was quoted by The Daily Star Sunday as saying. He said the Bangladesh embassy in Tehran had already been instructe...

Ghasful, a mass-media house organized an open discussion on ‘Planned Urban System and Dhaka City’ on June 20, 2014, Friday at Conference Lounge of National Press Club. Presided over by Prof. Nazrul Islam, prominent urban expert and Chairman of Urban Research City Study Centre, the program was started with the self composed poem ‘Jati-ma Pahara dey’ by Poet Mohammad Nurul Huda. Architect Iqbal Habib, Joint Secretary, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) presented the keynote paper followed by welcome addressed by Literateur Ata Sa...