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Mridha Shihab Mahmud

Mridha Shihab Mahmud is a writer, content editor and photojournalist. He works as a staff reporter at News Hour. He is also involved in humanitarian works through a trust called Safety Assistance For Emergencies (SAFE). Mridha also works as film director. His passion is photography. He is the chief respondent person in Mymensingh Film & Photography Society. Besides professional attachment, he loves graphics designing, painting, digital art and social networking.

IOM organized workshop with officials on counter-trafficking in Mexico

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 16, 2016

News Hour: IOM launched this week in Chiapas, southern Mexico, a series of workshops aimed at strengthening the counter-trafficking capacities of the Inter-Institutional Committee for Assistance to Trafficking Victims with judiciary officials, emphasizing a human rights...
Nigeria need to increase transparency on asset recovery

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 16, 2016

News Hour: Transparency International, the global anti-corruption movement, is participating in a workshop to follow up on the commitments the government of Nigeria made at the Anti-Corruption Summit in London in May on fighting corruption in...
ADB and Munich Re signed a deal to increase business in developing Asia

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 16, 2016

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Germany-based Munich Re have signed an agreement on $250 million cover to help ADB’s Trade Finance Program expand support for trade in developing Asia. The agreement will see...
Sri Lanka and ADB singed a 2 million dollar agreement for relief fund

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 16, 2016

News Hour: The Government of Sri Lanka and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a $2 million grant agreement to finance relief efforts in the country following the recent floods and landslides which claimed the...
Organizations delivers water and other supply to remote drought-hit areas of PNG

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 16, 2016

News Hour: Isolated communities in Papua New Guinea have been suffering from drought for numerous months. A major step in lifting them out of need came this week when IOM and the EU stepped up their...
Bollywood is curious about the newest Vishesh Films heroine Kriti Kharbanda!

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 15, 2016

News Hour: Beside all the other new faces in this years bollywood big screen the whole B-town is very much curious about the newest Vishesh Films heroine Bhatts’ newest find Kriti Kharbanda. Bhatts, The hit starmakers...
Oscar Pistorius walks on stumps in court as seeks to avoid jail

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 15, 2016

News Hour: Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius shuffled through a Pretoria court without his prosthetic legs on Wednesday to show how vulnerable he is as the Paralympian seeks to avoid prison for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp....
Jonny Bairstow breaks into the top 20 for the first time

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 15, 2016

News Hour: England’s wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow has achieved his highest ranking to date in the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen after hitting his third career century in the Lord’s Test, which ended in...
FIFA Council lifts suspension of Benin Football Association

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 15, 2016

News Hour: The Bureau of the FIFA Council has lifted the suspension that was imposed on the Benin Football Association (FBF) on 9 May 2016 in accordance with article 16 of the FIFA Statutes for failing...
More then 43,000 people recently displaced from Fallujah in Iraq

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jun 15, 2016

News Hour: IOM is closely monitoring displacement from Fallujah in response to ongoing military operations in and around the city, which intensified on 22 May 2016. IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Emergency Tracking identified a total...