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Bangladeshi Solar Energy Boat project wins US$60,000 Ashden Award

Bangladeshi Solar Energy Boat project wins US$60,000 Ashden Award

London, June 22: The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, held in London, United Kingdom, awarded ventures from Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Tanzania first prizes of US$60,000 each to further their schemes. Projects ranged from solar-powered home systems and mini-hydropower plants for remote villages, to food waste and dung biogas plants for urban areas.One of […]

June 23, 2007 | By | Reply More
‘Farmers don’t commit SUICIDES where they have COOPERATIVES’: Verghese Kurien

‘Farmers don’t commit SUICIDES where they have COOPERATIVES’: Verghese Kurien

India, June 23: HAILED AS the father of the India’s White Revolution, Verghese Kurien was responsible for setting up the Anand model of cooperative dairy development. The movement transformed over 2.5 million farmers into stakeholders in the Amul brand, the country’s largest food product manufacturers. The former chairman of the now billion-dollar brand has also […]

June 22, 2007 | By | Reply More
Postal offices will be developed as Rural Information Centers

Postal offices will be developed as Rural Information Centers

KATHMANDU, June 20: Nepal Government spokesperson and Minister for Information and Communications Krishna Bahadur Mahara has lauded the role of the postal service in the field of communication and said that the government was planning to develop the post offices in the rural areas as information centers at the grass roots level. Inaugurating a two-day […]

June 21, 2007 | By | Reply More
Project SHIKHA works for unemployed rural women

Project SHIKHA works for unemployed rural women

I am AZM Ashraf. Please allow me to take this opportunity and talk about an innovative project that my company has initiated. Project SHIKHA (The Bangla word for ‘Flame’) is a sustainable commercial distribution network of rural women customized to serve the dispersed rural households. This is a unique project initiated by Consumer Connect Communication […]

June 20, 2007 | By | Reply More
Telemedicine at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital, Sri lanka

Telemedicine at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital, Sri lanka

Sri Lanka, June 19, 2007: The Information and Communication Technology Agency’s Nenasala Project entered new ground when it opened its first Hospital Nenasala at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital on the 11th of June 2007 under the patronage of the Hon. Minister of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Kurunegala District MP. Mr. Jayarathna Herath. This […]

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