Solar home systems for rural Bangladesh

Rahimafrooz Batteries has played a leading role in the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development Project (REREDP) - a large scale programme to provide solar home systems to rural households in Bangladesh. > Watch Video

Bangladesh-Corruption: Passport

"Corruption is a part of each and every Bangladeshi life. ""The presence of corruption has made us obtuse in recognizing corruption. We routinely take part in various forms of corruption. ""What do you do as a common-citizen trying to obtain a passport, which is your right...

White-House Overwrote E-Mail

"E-mail messages sent and received by White-House personnel during the first three years of the Bush-administration were routinely "recycled,". During the period in question, the Bush presidency faced some of its biggest controversies, including the Iraq-war. ""Two federal...

Patient-Musharraf

Pervez-Musharraf has promised that Pakistan will hold fair elections next month and urged the West to be more patient. He also sought to ease worries about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal as Islamic-extremists step up their fight with his government, insisting that tight...

Life after Google

"""What would you do if you were flush with millions? ""That's the multimillion-dollar question for hundreds of early Googlers. More than 900 employees became instant millionaires when Google went public in August 2004, and that total has likely ballooned along with the stock...

Google betting-big on mobile

"On Christmas Day thousands opened up boxes with something cool and functional inside and wasted no-time logging onto Google through their brand new iPhones."As a result, the number of global queries to Google's search site from iPhones surpassed the number of queries from...

Bangladeshi-Begums

One of Bangladesh's two “battling begums” went on trial for extortion recently, as part of the emergency Government's plan to break their-stranglehold on politics. "Sheikh Hasina Wajed, a former Prime Minister, has been in detention since July, accused with her sister and...

Invasion of the sovereign-wealth funds

"Ben Bernanke once spoke of dropping money from helicopters, if necessary, to save an economy in distress."" He probably did not envisage that choppers bearing the insignia of oil-rich Gulf states and cash-rich Asian countries would hover over Wall Street. On January 15th...

"Bollywood Today"

""" It would be a mistake to look only at the photos in this new book on Bollywood. The real eye candy is not the photographs but the writing. ""In Bollywood Today, Kaveree Bamzai entertainingly combines good-prose with insightful-analysis. Details are contemporary...