The 12th Pran-Prothom Alo National Pickle Competition-2011 award giving ceremony was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city on Friday.

Kenya’s Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has died in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71.

Tajnahar Begum came to Dhaka more than 12 years ago to help out her husband, who worked at a rubber factory.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been awarded the South-South Award Monday night for her outstanding contributions to improving the lives of women and children.

Iranian independent filmmaker Zohreh Zamani is visiting Dhaka to serve as a programmer of the upcoming Dhaka International Film Festival, which is scheduled to be held next year.

Renowned artist Farida Zaman has obtained international recognition participating in biennales and international exhibitions and competitions in different Asian and European countries.

Wasfia Nazreen, the first Bangladeshi attempting to climb the seven highest mountains of the world’s seven continents, returned home yesterday after attempting to climb Mount Elbrus situated on the borders of South West Russia and Georgia.

Days before India and the US hold their second strategic dialogue, the government yesterday formally announced the appointment of Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao as its next ambassador to the United States.

A simple village woman otherwise, Taslima Begum enjoyed the rare glory of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Grameen Bank on December 10, 2006. She believes the government could have dealt with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus respectfully.

ON February 26, after a gap of nearly 2 years, I visited the village of Dakhin Tegori in Chowhali Upazila of Sirajganj District. I particularly wanted to see how Joneka was getting on, now that the activities of Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) have come to an end. Joneka was the subject of a detailed feature [...]

It was my first day at work training. Sitting in a room as the only Bangladeshi (or of Asian origin), I felt like the fish out of the water among the White English people. The very subject of our discussion was “Bangladeshi Girls”, particularly focusing on young teenage girls growing up in a Bengali dominated [...]

Deputy Chairman of women football committee of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Mahfuza Akter Kiron was elected unopposed member of the AFC executive committee (woman) in the 24th AFC Congress election in Qatar recently, reports UNB. Source: thefinancialexpress-bd.com

When the country’s billions dollar remittance generating manpower export industry is in trouble by the fast shrinking overseas job markets, Bangladeshi female workers have started tightening grip. Taking advantage of ever-growing demand for residential care-givers and maids in Middle-East and European countries, quick-to-adopt Bangladeshi female workers have managed to gain 20 per cent growth in [...]

The process of building digital Bangladesh, national developments and women empowerment could be accelerated through ensuring just rights of the female public representatives at the grassroots, experts said.

Industries Minister Dilip Barua said self-reliant women could play a vital role in building a prosperous nation. He was speaking as the chief guest at a seminar titled ‘Home based entrepreneurs and artisans-2010′ at Khulna Public Hall.