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Bangladesh wins 13 awards at 24th Int’l Robot Olympiad
Hosted annually, the International Robot Olympiad (IRO) is a global event that awards students from all over the world in robotics. This year, in the 24th iteration of the IRO, Team Bangladesh won a total of 13 awards, including 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals, 2 bronze...
World Bank: Bangladesh is a true global champion
New World Bank Country Director to Bangladesh and Bhutan Abdoulaye Seck on Tuesday highly lauded the economic development of Bangladesh over the years and thus termed the country as a true global champion on various fronts. He explained that Bangladesh was a true...
Bangladesh to earn $5b from ICT sector by 2025, Palak hopes
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the country's export earnings will be five billion US dollars from the ICT sector along with huge employment generation by 2025. "Country's ICT sector has already created...
DBL gets $52m UK investment for green spinning mill
Alongside encouraging Bangladesh apparel to go completely green, the investment will have a multiplier effect on women empowerment. DBL Group, one of the leading Bangladeshi apparel exporters, is going to receive a $52 million credit facility from the British...
‘Meghna Cloud’: Bangladesh’s first cloud data centre
Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL) and Gennext Technology have recently signed an agreement to set up Meghna Cloud, Bangladesh's first cloud data centre. According to a press release, this joint venture will be under the initiative 'Made in Bangladesh...
Fazle Hasan Abed: The canny serial entrepreneur
The following is an excerpt from the chapter ‘Falling out’ of the newly published ‘Hope Over Fate – Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty’ a biography of the founder of BRAC, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, written by Scott MacMillan. This book will be...
Exports hit record $5.36b in December
Bangladesh witnessed the highest-ever export earnings of $5.36 billion in December last year braving a global economic crisis. The export earnings, which surpassed the $5 billion milestone for the second consecutive month, saw a 9.33 per cent growth year-on-year,...
EkkBaz raises $500,000 in funding, aims to expand operations in Bangladesh, Singapore, and Vietnam
EkkBaz, a B2B marketplace with an embedded financing platform for small businesses, is pleased to announce that it has raised USD 500,000 in funding from Haitou Global, KeyStone Capital, Artesian, and Enterprise Singapore, per a press release sent to FS. The funds...
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: The man who taught the world how to scale development interventions
Today marks the third anniversary of the passing of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of Brac, an organisation that today employs over 100,000 people and has reached 11 countries across the globe, directly impacting the lives of more than 100 million people through...