DHAKA: When Faysal Islam lost a loved one in a road accident in 2016 due to lack of ambulance support, he launched the Safewheel project with two friends to provide low-cost medical services to isolated rural areas of Bangladesh.
On Wednesday, the 24-year-old was named 2021 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year in addition to winning the regional award for Asia and prize money of $7,000 for his “innovative approach to community help.”
“One of our co-founders’ uncles died in 2016 because no ambulance was available. This incident prompted me to do something to facilitate medical care for people,” Islam, co-founder and chief business development officer of Safewheel, told Arab News on Saturday.
Integrity management vital to ensure good governance in water supply
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RAJSHAHI, Mar 4, 2021 (BSS) – Integrity management has become crucial to ensure good governance in the country’s Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) and other water supply entities.
Besides, utmost emphasis should be given on ensuring transparency,
accountability and participation of all stakeholders in the service delivery activities for betterment of the consumers in general.
Experts revealed these while conducting a technical session in a two-day
long ‘Training of Integrity Management Coaches’ that ended at MIDAS
Restaurant in Rajshahi city today.
NGO Forum for Public Health organized the training in association with
Poll Violence in Bangladesh: One Dead, 50 Injured Published March 1st, 2021 - 07:31 GMT
Policemen clash with the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during the third day of protests following the death of Mushtaq Ahmed, a prominent writer and government critic in jail, in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on February 28, 2021. Sony Ramany / AFP
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Voting held for 29 municipalities or town councils.
At least one person was killed and 50 others injured in violence during local government elections in Bangladesh on Sunday, police said.
Chotan Adhikar, 40, was killed in a clash between supporters of two councilor candidates in the northern Nilphamari district’s Saidpur municipality, according to sources.