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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...
From jhal-muri wala to successful malta planter
Story of a Tangail youth’s transformation. Moslem Uddin used to sell pickles and jhal-muri in front of different schools in Tangail's Sakhipur upazila. But over the last five years, with vision, hard work and confidence, the young man has transformed himself into a...
An insight into success story of the dynamic Bangladeshi businessman Salman F Rahman
Salman F Rahman (সালমান এফ রহমান) the vice-chairman of Beximco, one of the top Bangladeshi companies, has gained an additional set of responsibilities after the Bangladesh Election 2019 results. While the dynamic Bangladeshi businessman won from the Dhaka-1...
From zero to hero…Bangladeshi farmer in Botswana bags 11 awards
Mostofa Giasuddin Elias had no prior knowledge of agriculture and had never worked in a farm. Mostofa Giasuddin Elias put it all on the line in 1996 when he decided to move to Botswana to work at his brother-in-law's farm in the small town of Lobatse. Mostofa...
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...
An amazing story from a doyen of Bangladeshi economists
I had finished reading Professor Nurul Islam’s An Odyssey: The Journey of My Life quite some time back. But I always hesitated to write a review of this autobiography of the brightest economist of the country who was a lifelong teacher of many generations of...