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Gems who are taking the country forward
Bangladesh’s rocket boy: Cornered by early fame, powered by determination
In 2020, Homer Hickam, the original rocket boy - prominent for his book Rocket Boys- told me during an interview that "Bangladeshi folks interested in the space business" should follow young people in Coalwood and the surrounding area where he was raised. "Their only...
Group led by Bangladeshi scientist develops edible coating: Fruits, veggies to last longer
Led by a Bangladeshi scientist, a group of researchers at Rice University in Texas developed a way to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables using an entirely edible and washable protein-based coating. The coating, prepared mixing egg white, yolk, cellulose...
Turning a HOBBY into a successful BUSINESS
In the warm of winter morning, two siblings Tashfin and Tanha arrived at their school on Monday in Savar’s Bypile area like any other normal day with their mother. After attending their first-hour classes at GM Model High School, which also runs a primary section, the...
Taslima Miji: A promising entrepreneur
Creating an exciting design for my clients makes me so happy, says Taslima Miji, CEO of Leatherina, the company she founded in 2016. Her signature brand, Gootipa, is now famous for its customised leather products, both in Bangladesh and international markets like...
Silent heroes of ‘Surokkha’: Five local engineers took up the challenge to develop Covid vaccine management app
User-friendly and functioning without any major hiccup, vaccine registration app “Surokkha” is a small statement of capabilities of homegrown information technologists. Created by five local engineers, the app with an access capacity of five crore people at a time,...
Reimagining luxury outdoor lounging chairs with rickshaw art
24-year-old Tahira Resalat is a British Bangladeshi, living in London. She is pursuing an MA/MSc in Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. She completed her undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering from...
The story of Mayuri, an award-winning handicraft entrepreneur in Jamalpur
She was born into a prosperous family. But ahead of puberty, Arifa Yasmin Mayuri began feeling gender dysphoria — a conflict between a person’s assigned gender and their identity. As she approached adolescence, she finally realised she was not into typically “boy...
How a Tk 300 investment returned 5-figure income? Ask this teenager
On this International Youth Day, meet the teenage entrepreneur who bravely encountered her mental health struggles and channeled her love for the environment to set up the biggest online thrift store in Bangladesh In 2010, seven-year-old Sunayra Subha Pushpita was...
A 22-year old Bangladeshi entrepreneur making food-delivery robots in South Korea
Labib Tazwar Rahman is a 22-year-old Bangladeshi tech entrepreneur, founder of InclusionX and one of the co-founders of Neubility, a Seoul-based company that develops autonomous food-delivery robots Labib was only a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Stanford...