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 [...]
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Bangladesh will build 2,000 new cyclone centers in the 15 coastal districts this year following the deadly cyclone Sidr on
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Cox’s Bazar beach and Sundarbans Forest have created excellence at the very beginning of selecting New 7 Wonders of Nature. Cox’s Bazar beach, largest sea beach of the world, has taken the first position among the primary nominated 158 natural places of the world.
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The Council of Advisers of the Caretaker Government, Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh has decided to ratify New UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Association for the Welfare of the Disabled People (AWDP) warmly felicitates the Honorable Chief Adviser as well as his Council of Advisers for this remarkable decision.
Bangladesh has already signed this [...]
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HYDERABAD: Youth and their sexual and reproductive health issues will be the focus of the three-day Fourth Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSH) which begins at the Hyderabad International Convention Centreon Monday.
The impact of religious fundamentalism on woman’s sexual and reproductive health and rights will be another issue to be debated [...]
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A jury named winners from Bangladesh, Canada, Kenya and Sri Lanka Tuesday as recipients of the 2007 Right Livelihood Awards, often called the Alternative Nobel Prize.
Grameen Shakti, a company in Bangladesh, was cited for showing “that solar energy applications can be scaled up massively and rapidly to provide an affordable and climate-friendly energy option for [...]
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