A three-member team from Bangladesh has won the Unilever Future Leaders' League competition, a business case competition that connects students from all over the world. With this win, Bangladesh holds two champions and three runners-up trophies of the Unilever Future Leaders' League. The global competition aims to create a "better business and a better world through empowering the youth" to solve real-life business challenges. This year over 54,000 applications were received from 45 universities globally. Abrar Mahir Ahmed, Afnan Sayed and Rafsaan Muhab Shams won the award after competing with 23 countries in the final round. All three of them are now management trainees of Unilever. Rafsaan is an alumnus of Dhaka University's Institute of Business Administration, and Abrar and Afnan are alumni of North South University. As the winners, they will receive a career development opportunity of an all-inclusive trip to the Unilever headquarters in London. In Bangladesh, the opportunity to participate in this global forum is awarded to the champions of BizMaestros – the flagship business competition of Unilever Bangladesh. Read: 'The Dependables' wins Unilever BizMaestros 2021 From 340 students of undergraduate final years, the BizMaestros finalists had to go through multiple rounds with increasing levels of challenges to solve. Through these rounds, the participants were provided with hands-on training from managers, learning sessions with real business cases and mentorship from leaders of Unilever. Mohammad Zaved Akhtar, chief executive officer and managing director of Unilever Bangladesh, said: "It is a moment of pride for Unilever Bangladesh to witness our talented team's glorious win in the Unilever Future Leaders' League competition. The team showcased their skills and talent on an international platform and upheld the Bangladesh flag."

Country's celebrated weightlifter and SA Games gold medal-winning Mabia Akhter Simanta clinched gold with new record in her favourite 64 kgs weight category event of the Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games held in Mymensingh District gymnasium on Wednesday. Mabia, a lifter of Bangladesh Ansar, smartly clinched the event's gold medal with new national mark lifting total 181 kgs -- 80 kgs in snatch and 101 kgs in clean & jerk. Read: 3-day Bangabandhu 44th National Athletics commences The previous best record of Mabia was 179 kgs made in the Inter-Services Weightlifting Competition held in 2018. Mila Akhter of Bangladesh Army won the event's silver lifting 132 kgs while Laboni Akhter of Shipahi Bagh JS took the bronze lifting 116 kgs. Read 3 IU female students win medals in Bangladesh Games  

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