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
OpinionNobel 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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KOLKATA: What started as a fledgling organisation five years ago at Konnagar in West Bengal has now bagged the honour
Rural WomenNobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus founded a bank that has helped 7.5 million beggars and borrowers escape 
abject 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
Knowledge for DevelopmentSharonkhola,Bagerhat is a severely Cyclone SIDR,2007 affected area of the country. An indigenous community named Cobbler is living at...
