Three honoured for Rising High

Bangladesh should create opportunities for talented young people so that they could use their creativity to become entrepreneurs and with their education and skills create jobs for others, business experts said yesterday.

The country's youth are very talented and committed, and time has come to respect their good and innovative business ideas so they can be entrepreneurs and help businesses grow, the experts observed at an award-giving ceremony for innovative business ideas.

The Daily Star and local cement manufacturer Crown Cement jointly organised the programme at the Senamalancha.

They launched a campaign styled “Rise High Bangladesh” in early August with a view to promoting innovative export-oriented business ideas for the youth. A competition was held among teams with business ideas.

At the ceremony, awards were given to top three business ideas and three notable entrepreneurs and professionals for having contributed to uplifting Bangladesh's image on the global stage.

The entrepreneurs and professionals honoured are Osama Bin Noor, co-founder of Youth Opportunities, Rafiq Azam, internationally acclaimed architect, and Fazlur Rahman Khan (posthumously), a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer, considered the father of tubular design for high-rise.