bdnews24.com Twelve US Congressmen, including Bangladesh Caucus founder and Chairman Joseph Crowley, expressed concern over diminishing labour rights in Bangladesh following death of 111 workers of the Tazreen Fashions Limited in one of the worst factory fires in recent times.…
Day: December 21, 2012
Govt warned against stacking forex
bdnews24.com The buffer foreign exchange reserve may have hit a new high, but the economics experts feel a huge forex may not do any good to the macro-economy and could push inflation if left idle. The economists have advised the…
Asia Energy awaits PM’s nod on Phulbari
bdnews24.com British mining firm Global Coal Management (GCM) Resources, formerly known as Asia Energy, is trying to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for having final words about Phulbari coal project. According to a statement obtained by bdnews24.com, it says it…
Stop mass contact, get shutdown: BNP
bdnews24.com The BNP on Friday threatened to enforce shutdowns for at least three straight days if the government bars its Dec 26 mass contact campaign aimed at whipping up public support for the call to reinstate the caretaker government. BNP…
Ruling alliance mass procession Saturday
bdnews24.com The Awami League-led 14-Party Alliance will hold mass processions in the city and across the country on Saturday in protest against what it said the violent acts carried out by the BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in the…
Cylinder blast burns 3 cars
bdnews24.com Three private cars were burnt as the gas cylinder of a car exploded at Mohakhali in the city on Friday evening. The incident happened in front of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) building behind Mohakhali kitchen market. However,…
Dhaka, Bangkok to sign two MoUs
bdnews24.com Bangladesh and Thailand will sign two memorandums of understanding to strengthen bilateral relationship, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said on Friday. One of the MoU will be on agriculture cooperation and the other on regular Secretary-level meetings, she said after…
Biman to fly on 3 new routes
bdnews24.com Biman Bangladesh Airlines will launch operations to China, Vietnam and New York in the US soon, Chairman of the airline’s Board of Directors Jamal Uddin Ahmed said on Friday. “We are set to start flight operations to Vietnam and…
Maradona on brink of becoming manager of Iraq
Banglanews24.com/dawn.com The former Argentina boss, who is acting as a consultant for the UAE club Al Wasl that he used to coach, is awaiting the outcome of a meeting of the Iraqi Football Federation to be held on Friday. Maradona…
The three dangers to India
Bharat Verma Very few policy makers in India dare to acknowledge the danger to the nation’s territorial integrity. The security and integrity of the nation has become hostage to vote-bank politics. Democracy and more than eight percent economic growth will…
Toddler incubates nest of deadly snakes
ABC via Yahoo News A Townsville toddler has incubated a nest of one of the world’s most deadly species of snake – in his bedroom closet. Kyle Cumming, 3, found the snake eggs several weeks ago while playing in his…
Dhaka’s toxic tanneries at human costs
Alex Renton in Dhaka Dhaka’s leather business is booming, yet 90% of workers die before 50 and the industry causes pollution on a major scale The smell catches you from blocks away: a throat-tightening mix of bad egg, rotten meat…
Latin Americans are happiest on Earth
AP/UNB MEXICO CITY: The world’s happiest people aren’t in Qatar, the richest country by most measures. They aren’t in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy. Canada, with its chart-topping percentage of college graduates, doesn’t make the top 10.…
Dhaka’s satellite launch uncertain
Bangladesh’s first-ever satellite launch project is facing uncertainty. About 20 countries, including the USA, France, Russia and Australia, have expressed displeasure about the satellite launching programme at the planned slot of 102 degree in orbit. Instead, they have asked Bangladesh…
US, UK refuse to sign UN Internet treaty
The US, Canada, Australia and UK have refused to sign an international communications treaty at a conference in Dubai. The countries had objected to calls for all states to have equal rights to the governance of the internet. But the…
Obama Time person of the year again
NEW YORK: Time magazine on Wednesday December 20 named the recently re-elected US President Barack Obama as its person of the year for 2012 — the second time it has accorded him this honor, says a message received in Dhaka.…
Mamata govt seeks Dhaka’s agriculture expertise
Overwhelmed by the success of Bangladesh in application of judicious use of nitrogenous fertilisers (Urea) in rice cultivation, Mamata government has decided to send a team of agricultural experts to Dhaka to have first-hand knowledge of the new technique of…
Doha negotiators made only incremental progress
World Resources Institute Expectations were low for this year’s UNFCCC climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar (COP 18), which concluded on Saturday 8th December. It was scheduled to be a “finalise-the-rules” type of COP, rather than one focused on large, political…
UNFCCC executive secretary on COP 18 outcome
Q: How did you get to the role you are in today and what advice would you give aspiring climate champions? Christiana Figueres: I have been involved in climate change since 1995. I started working as the head of an…
No oasis for climate in Doha desert
Climate Action Network-International The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change,…
Possibility of majority voting within UNFCCC
Luke Kemp The UNFCCC has operated for almost 20 years without any agreed rules of procedure, having failed to establish any at the first COP. Consensus is simply an unofficial and poorly defined process used in the absence of official…
BPL player list released
A stark difference prevailed between the base prices of the international and local players in the preliminary list of players for the auction of the second edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 released yesterday. The players have been…