Ex-Janata Bank chairman Luna Shamsuddoha dies
Luna Shamsuddoha, former chairman of Janata Bank, died at a hospital in Singapore on Wednesday. She was 53.
She breathed her last at the hospital while undergoing treatment.
Luna Shamsuddoha was the first woman chairman of the state-owned Janata Bank and also the chairman of a software firm called Dohatech New Media.
Luna had been the director of Janata Bank since June 2016. Prior to that, she was the director of Agrani Bank, another state-owned bank, from 2009 to 2012.
In 2013, Luna won the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network Award for advancing women in technology and empowering women. She was the founder and president of Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT). In 2016, she received the Bangladesh Business Award-2018 in recognition of her contribution to the country’s economy.
Luna Shamsuddoha, a leading software entrepreneur in the country, passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore yesterday. The 67-year-old entrepreneur was receiving treatment for cancer at the hospital. Her elder brother Zulfiquar Rahman confirmed it to The Daily Star. Luna was the chairperson of Dohatec New Media, a leading IT, and software company. According to
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today as part of their preparation for the upcoming 9th Bangabandhu
Bangladesh Games and South Africa series.
A total of 32 female cricketers from the national and emerging teams were
called up for the 13-day camp at the Mirpur National Cricket Academy.
The camp will run until March 1 after which the cricketers will leave for
Sylhet on March 2. After five days of preparation, the mission of Bangladesh
Games will start from March 6 and will end on March 12.
The team for the Games will include the players from national women’s team,
emerging team and under-19 team. They will play a total of four matches,
Afrin Mim,
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Published: 14 Jan 2021 12:18 PM BdST
Updated: 14 Jan 2021 02:40 PM BdST
Since her childhood days, Ayesha Siddiqua has watched absolute male dominance in solemnising Muslim marriages. She always nurtured the dream of breaking into the men’s domain by becoming a female Kazi in Bangladesh. );
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A native of Dinajpur’s Fulbari, she took a leap of faith and applied for the position of Nikah or marriage registrar. But she was turned down for being a woman. Undeterred, she mounted a legal challenge against religious gender discrimination to earn her right to become a Kazi in 2014.
A High Court ruling now stands between Ayesha and her dream but she is determined to continue her uphill battle for women s empowerment.