Green Delta Ins: going beyond conventional territory
World Economic Forum recognises the insurer for excellence in sustainability
Farzanah Chowdhury
Over the last several years, Green Delta Insurance Company (GDIC) has emerged as one of the country s leading insurance providers.
And although the company has done well in areas such as conventional insurance, it did not limit itself to that domain.
The general insurer has gone beyond that known territory with the objective to bring millions of underserved and marginalised people into the umbrella of insurance and provide them a hedge against health, natural disasters and other risks and shocks.
Having begun this journey back in 2011-12, the GDIC in association with the Institute of Microfinance started working in Mymensingh to provide micro-health insurance to poor people in the area through the Community Based Medical College Hospital.
I had set the surrender stage at Race Course: Indian Brig
BSS
16th December, 2020 08:51:26
Bangladesh emerged as the free capital of an independent nation as Pakistani military commander Lieutenant General AAK Niazi signed the document conceding defeat in world’s first ever such surrender ceremony in public on December 16, 1971.
But it remained largely unknown how the stage was set in haste and who was entrusted with the task until 2012 when an Indian war veteran, Brigadier General Sant Singh, told BSS reporter he was the man who arranged the ceremony.
Singh, whom the freedom fighters in 1971 fondly called “Brigadier Babaji” because of his attire – typical Shikh turban and beard and affectionate attitude – was talking to this reporter on the sidelines of a ceremony in Dhaka where he along with several other foreigners were awarded with “Friends of Liberation War Honour”.
I had set the surrender stage at Race Course: Indian Brig
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By Anisur Rahman
DHAKA, Dec 16, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh emerged as the free capital of an independent nation as Pakistani military commander Lieutenant General AAK Niazi signed the document conceding defeat in world’s first ever such surrender ceremony in public on December 16, 1971.
But it remained largely unknown how the stage was set in haste and who was entrusted with the task until 2012 when an Indian war veteran, Brigadier General Sant Singh, told BSS reporter he was the man who arranged the ceremony.
Singh, whom the freedom fighters in 1971 fondly called “Brigadier Babaji” because of his attire – typical Shikh turban and beard and affectionate attitude – was talking to this reporter on the sidelines of a ceremony in Dhaka where he along with several other foreigners were awarded with “Friends of Liberation War Honour”.
Give indigenous people stewardship of land
Speakers tell webinar Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Indigenous people should be granted stewardship for the land they exist on, said speakers at a virtual seminar yesterday.
Stewardship is a concept different from ownership because it makes the residents collectively responsible for maintenance of the land and its biodiversity. The webinar, titled Inclusion, Cultural Integrity and Land Rights of the Indigenous Peoples in Asia was jointly organised by Kapaeeng Foundation, Bangladesh; Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD), and The Daily Star. It is only in the indigenous culture we can promote the culture of stewardship instead of ownership. They do not own the land but we are guided by nature itself to maintain the land in a way that will be good for all of humanity, said Dr Meghna Guhathakurta, advisor, International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission.