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WaterAid Chairman, CEO in city

Chief executive officer of International NGO WaterAid Barbara Frost, along with Chair of the Board of Trustees Tim Clark and Trustee Anna Segall arrives Dhaka today (6 January, 2016 Saturday) for a six-day visit. During the tour, they would visit WaterAid Bangladesh’s different WASH programme focusing low-income communities in urban slums and in the northern part of the country thatemphasizes access of WASH services and rights to the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people of rural Bangladesh. They will also meet different high officials of the government, development partners and donor communities and discuss how better Bangladesh can be prepared to face the upcoming challenges of achieving SDG. They will inaugurate WaterAid Bangladesh country programme strategy for 2016 to 2021 -...

Sarker new Secy General of BIA

Bangladesh Insurance Association, an apex body of Insurance sector in Bangladesh has recently appointed Mr. Nishith Kumar Sarker its new Secretary General. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Sarker served as Joint Secretary in different Ministries of the SarkerGovernment of Bangladesh. Mr. Sarker has completed the Diploma course on Disaster Management from ADPC, Bangkok. He visited many Countries during his service in different Ministries. Mr. Sarker obtained his Masters with Honors Degree in English from Rajshahi University...

Myanmar’s peace prize winner and crimes against humanity

SITTWE, Myanmar — SOON the world will witness a remarkable sight: a beloved Nobel Peace Prize winner presiding over 21st-century concentration camps. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world’s genuine heroes, won democracy for her country, culminating in historic elections in November that her party won in a landslide. As winner, Aung San Suu Kyi is also inheriting the worst ethnic cleansing you’ve never heard of, Myanmar’s destruction of a Muslim minority called the Rohingya. [caption id="attachment_21329" align="alignleft" width="540"]

New tech to hack brain

The face of a show attendee is projected onto a large statue using Intel RealSense Technology software and a RealSense Camera at the CES 2016 Consumer Electronics Show on January 8, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AFPThe next frontier for the tech sector is the human brain. A new breed of neuro-hacker is finding ways to capture and manipulate brainwaves to improve health, with potential to help the severely handicapped. new techA number of the innovations were on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where computer scientists and biomedi...

Arfan new AMD of Bank Asia

Mr. Md. Arfan Ali has been promoted to Additional Managing Director of Bank Asia Ltd. He was Deputy Managing Director of the Bank. A veteran in the Banking Industry, Mr. Arfan Ali has multifarious experience in the Corporate and Retail Banking arena with both local and multinational banks. He joined Bank Asia at the Arfan Ali-1very outset in 1999 and worked as Head of Branches and different other important Departments at the Corporate Office. He led the move of introducing Agent Banking services by Bank Asia for the first time in Bangla...

Bangladesh transforms despite its vicious politics

Bangladesh’s social, economic and political development is one of the great success stories of the past 25 years. But today it is Bangladesh’s politically dysfunctional ‘battling begums’ — Sheikh Hasina of the ruling Awami League (AL) and Khaleda Zia of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) — that hold the country back. n overview of a floating vegetable market for the poor people besides the rail tracks close to the station during the country wide strike at Mohakhali in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1 January 2015 (Photo: AAP)Bangladesh has emerged from military rule as a fledgling democracy struggling to build essential economic and political institutions. It has made great strides in drawing children into schools, improving gender equality, boosting maternal and child health, and red...
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