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Ban Ki-moon arrives in Dhaka today

November 1, 2008 No Comments

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, arrives in Dhaka this afternoon to discuss a wide ranged of issues relating to politics, economy and social affairs ahead of Bangladesh’s general elections.

Foreign affairs adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury will receive the UN chief at Zia International Airport at 5.30pm. Now on a four-nation Asia visit, Ban

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Nobel laureate Yunus unveils Bangladesh clean water deal

March 31, 2008 No Comments

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Monday unveiled a deal between his pioneering Grameen bank and French group Veolia Environment to provide clean water to poor rural communities in Bangladesh.

The Bangladeshi economist also sought support from President Nicolas Sarkozy for creating more microcredit schemes to fight poverty, particularly in Africa.

“I wanted to make him understand how effective a tool microcredit is in helping the poor

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Bengal micro credit company honoured by Forbes

January 24, 2008 1 Comment

Microfinance Institution Bandhan Now Serves More Than 500,000 Working Poor

KOLKATA: What started as a fledgling organisation five years ago at Konnagar in West Bengal has now bagged the honour

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Success that takes society into account

January 19, 2008 1 Comment

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus founded a bank that has helped 7.5 million beggars and borrowers escape  Yunusabject poverty in his native Bangladesh.Speaking to about 1800 people this week, he encouraged them to do what they could to change the world by using business techniques to solve everything from poverty to pollution.

“We can create a world where there will be no poor persons at all,” Yunus told students, non- profit organisers and members of the Bangladesh- American Society of Greater Houston.

Yunus recently wrote Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. In it he suggests that people create businesses with a societal motive, offering health insurance, cheque-cashing services or bank accounts for the

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Indigenous communities and their endangered life

Sharonkhola,Bagerhat is a severely Cyclone SIDR,2007 affected area of the country. An indigenous community named Cobbler is living at...

Cyclone AILA and its adverse impact on child and maternal health

Gabura, Satkhira, Bangladesh: On 23rd May 2009 cyclone Aila hit the south –west part of the country. Since then...

We will be hoping for some rain soon: Naresh Mardi

Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh: Farmers had begun to thresh their paddy in Nachol by mid-May. The harvest, they said was good...