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Bangladeshi scientist Senjuti Saha made member of WHO board
Dr Senjuti Saha, a scientist of the Child Health Research Foundation in Bangladesh, was appointed as a member of the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The Global Polio Eradication Initiative created the TIMB...
Kamal Quadir: The artist who became a fintech guru
All Kamal Quadir wanted is to be an artist. He trained as an artist. He began career as an artist. And now Kamal is a techfin guru, heading the country's largest mobile financial service bKash. But that metamorphosis is not a linear story, as it sounds. It sure did...
Intel appoints Bangladeshi-American Omar Ishrak as board chairman
American tech giant Intel on Tuesday announced its board has elected with immediate effect a new chairman who had grown up in Bangladesh. Omar Ishrak joined the Santa Clara, California-based company’s board as an independent director in March 2017. Board chairpersons...
Recalling Brac’s journey
There are not many non-Bangladeshis who witnessed both the birth of the Bangladesh nation in 1971 and the beginning of Brac in 1972, and I hope that those reading these few words will find my memories of some interest. Over the months prior to Victory Day in December...
Bangladeshi scientist discovers successful method for diagnosing tuberculosis
More than 10 million people around the world have active tuberculosis, and every year more than a million die from it Tuberculosis (TB) can now be diagnosed easily through an inexpensive blood test. American scientist of Bangladesh origin, Dr Kazi Rushdy Ahmad led the...
Ashik was flipping burgers when he arrived from Bangladesh. Now, he’s worth $148 million
Technology entrepreneurs feature heavily in this year's Australian Financial Review Young Rich List, with many from humble beginnings.Ashik Ahmed moved to Australia from Bangladesh as a 17-year-old and soon began flipping burgers at a fast-food chain in Melbourne. "I...
This Bangladeshi Startupreneur Thinks VCs are Only Scratching the Surface in a Country Full of Opportunities
Maliha Quadir, a perfectionist who saw women of her household work, worked at Morgan Stanley in the United States before she decided to come to her motherland Bangladesh to start an ‘uber’ easy app – Shohoz. Her dream to make the Alibaba of Bangladesh saw wings with...
Mahbub Hossain’s Journey From A Door-To-Door Salesman To Building His Own Furniture Company
Mahbub Hossain, the founder and CEO of Vip Door and Furniture, has built a successful company from scratch. He started his career at the bottom as a door-to-door marketer for Brother’s Furniture at a basic salary of TK 2,500 but Mahbub has managed to push himself up....
Shiful Islam Started His Career At Tk 700 Monthly Salary, Today His Company Rimy Plastic Industries Brings In TK 10 Million A Year. This Is His Story.
Shiful Islam, the proprietor of Rimy Plastic Industries, was born and brought up in Shatkira. He came to Dhaka in the year 1992 even before completing his intermediate education in search of a better life. That year he started working for a plastic products...