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Bangladesh women win their first Asian Games hockey match "Roid" is Bangladesh's Oscar entry Korai Kitchen makes the NYT's 50 favorite restaurants Japan deal opens 10 years of skilled jobs Miles frontman Hamin Ahmed becomes the first Bangladeshi on the Asia-Pacific music creators' board Rooppur nuclear plant reaches its first controlled chain reaction Two Bangladeshi students win SpaceXAI challenge at HackMIT with a tool that tracks space debris New York-raised diplomat Trishita Maula leads the US Embassy in Dhaka Brick Lane Curry Festival draws a record 40,000 people to London's Banglatown Bangladesh trains field epidemiologists and lab leaders to strengthen health emergency readiness Bangladesh Under-19s beat Afghanistan in a Super Over thriller in Oman Shuvagata Hom becomes the first Bangladeshi with 7,000 runs and 300 wickets in first-class cricket

Bangladesh women win their first Asian Games hockey match "Roid" is Bangladesh's Oscar entry Korai Kitchen makes the NYT's 50 favorite restaurants Japan deal opens 10 years of skilled jobs Miles frontman Hamin Ahmed becomes the first Bangladeshi on the Asia-Pacific music creators' board Rooppur nuclear plant reaches its first controlled chain reaction Two Bangladeshi students win SpaceXAI challenge at HackMIT with a tool that tracks space debris New York-raised diplomat Trishita Maula leads the US Embassy in Dhaka Brick Lane Curry Festival draws a record 40,000 people to London's Banglatown Bangladesh trains field epidemiologists and lab leaders to strengthen health emergency readiness Bangladesh Under-19s beat Afghanistan in a Super Over thriller in Oman Shuvagata Hom becomes the first Bangladeshi with 7,000 runs and 300 wickets in first-class cricket

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Sal Khan

Founder, Khan Academy · Education technology

ROOTSBarishal (father's family, Babuganj) RISINGMountain View, California

He built Khan Academy, a free online school used by well over 100 million learners, starting from videos he made to tutor a cousin.

Sal Khan founded Khan Academy in 2006. It now offers more than 6,500 free video lessons and had over 155 million registered users by 2023, making it one of the most widely used learning platforms in the world.

He went on to launch Khan Lab School in Mountain View in 2014 and Schoolhouse.world in 2020, which offers free small-group tutoring.

Khan was born in Metairie, Louisiana. His father, Fakhrul Amin Khan, came from Rahmatpur village in Babuganj, Barishal, and his mother is from Murshidabad in West Bengal. He holds degrees in electrical engineering, computer science and mathematics from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.

Sources: Wikipedia

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