October 5, 2025 - TheStatement24

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Commonwealth Youth Awards introduces a new category honouring young champions of media freedom

Young communications professionals are being encouraged to apply for a special new award within the 2026 Commonwealth Youth Awards. The inaugural Patsy Robertson Award for Outstanding Communications Skills in Advancing Community Development and Peace is being included as an additional prize this year. The award category recognises the exceptional commitment, creativity and courage of young journalists, broadcasters and writers in promoting media freedom, inclusive societies and democracy. The award is open to editors, reporters, photojournalists, webcasters, social media activists, commentators, broadcasters, bloggers, podcasters and streamers. The Commonwealth Association, a group of former staff members who once served the Secretariat, has initiated this award to honour the associa...

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Salesforce Launches MuleSoft Agent Fabric

Breaking News, Business

Salesforce has introduced MuleSoft Agent Fabric, a platform to discover, orchestrate, govern, and observe AI agents across vendors and systems aiming to curb “agent sprawl” and give enterprises a single control plane for multi-agent workflows. Early customers include Barco, r.Potential, Rush University System for Health, and Wynn and Encore Las Vegas. The launch comes as AI agent adoption is projected to surge 327% in two years, with 40% of enterprise apps expected to embed agents within a year. Agent Fabric combines four core capabilities: a Registry to catalog any agent or tool for reuse; an intelligent Broker that routes tasks across domains (supporting A2A and MCP, and the customer’s LLM of choice); Governance to apply security, compliance, and policy controls to every interaction; an...

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Government Offices Begin Journey to Phase Out Single-Use Plastics with Secretariat Pilot — Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan

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Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources, announced today that the journey to phase out single-use plastics (SUP) from government offices has officially begun with the Bangladesh Secretariat. She expressed optimism that, with regular monitoring, the Secretariat would be completely free of single-use plastics by 1 January 2026. Briefing journalists at the Secretariat, the Adviser said that the use of plastic water bottles and other single-use items will be discontinued by December. She noted that while single-use plastics are not yet banned by law in Bangladesh, the government is actively discouraging their use. Several embassies and universities have already declared their campuses free of single-use plast...

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Guardian and Clinicall partnership aiming to safeguard the remittance workers

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Guardian Life Insurance Limited, one of the country’s leading insurance service providers, has officially signed an agreement with health-tech company CliniCall Limited. The partnership introduces an innovative insurance and healthcare package exclusively designed for Bangladeshi remittance workers and their families. The signing ceremony took place at the Guardian’s head office in Dhaka. The partnership aims to address the pressing health and financial protection challenges faced by millions of remittance earners who contribute significantly to the country’s economy. The newly launched package offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including life and health insurance coverage, unlimited doctor consultations through CliniCall, financial protection in case of job loss, and holistic h...