Most of the world’s fossil fuel reserves will need to stay in the ground if dangerous global warming is to be avoided, modelling work suggests.
Month: January 2015
Australia v India: Kohli makes history; ‘spidercam’ controversy
Virat Kohli became the first man to make three Test centuries in his first three innings as captain on an eventful third day of the fourth Test against Australia in Sydney.
Guardians joins WGA screenplay shortlist
Guardians of the Galaxy has received a surprise nomination in the adapted screenplay shortlist, as selected by the Writers Guild of America (WGA).
Charlie Hebdo attack: Kouachi brothers are top suspects
French police are hunting for two French brothers suspected of carrying out the massacre at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people died.
Opinion: Understanding education for global citizenship
By Kartikeya V. Sarabhai Ahmedabad, India, Dec 2014 (IPS) – Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) brings together concerns about the environment, economic development and social aspects. Since 1972, when the first U.N. Conference on the Human Environment was held in…
SMS for healthy, AIDS-free babies
By Lyndal Rowlands and Mercedes Sayagues UN, Dec 2014 (IPS) – In rural Zambia and Malawi, new mums face long delays finding out if they have passed HIV on to their babies. Without treatment, a third of babies born with…
India’s ‘manual scavengers’ up against caste discrimination
By Shai Venkatraman Mumbai, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Watching Bittal Devi deftly weave threads of different colours into a vibrant patchwork quilt, it’s hard to imagine that this 46-year-old’s hands have spent the better part of their life cleaning toilets.…
From the American dream to the nightmare of deportation
By Edgardo Ayala San Salvador, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Julio César Cordero’s American dream didn’t last long. He was trying to reach Houston, Texas as an undocumented immigrant but was detained in Acayucán in southeastern Mexico. And like thousands of…
Organic farming in India points the way to sustainable agriculture
By Jency Samuel Nagapatnam, India, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Standing amidst his lush green paddy fields in Nagapatnam, a coastal district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a farmer named Ramajayam remembers how a single wave changed his…
Family farming eases food shortages in Eastern Cuba
By Patricia Grogg Santiago De Cuba, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Meat and vegetables are never missing from the dinner table of Damaris González and Omar Navarro, since they get almost all of their food from their farm, La Revelación, on…
The rise and fall of world’s poorest nations
By Thalif Deen UN, Jan 2015 (IPS) – The world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) – a special category of developing nations created by the General Assembly in 1971 but refused recognition by the World Bank – have long been…
Banks asked to assess terror financing risks in three months
The banks in Bangladesh were on Thursday issued guidelines to assess risks of money laundering and terrorist financing in their operations, and were given by three months to complete such assessment 31 March. The output of this assessment will be…
Efficient, IT-based banking must of stability: BB Governor
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman on Thursday inaugurated an online payment gateway of Bank Asia and Payonees in Dhaka. Given below is part of the statement he made at the function: I am happy to see Bank Asia, one…
Continue blockade – Khaleda: Police unlocks main gate
Accusing the government of trying to confuse people by carrying out a false campaign that the 20-party’s blockade programme is going to be postponed, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has called upon all to continue it without any pause. “Besieged Khaleda…
Sri Lanka goes to polls: Rajapakse fights for survival
Sri Lanka went to the polls Thursday in its tightest election in decades, with its strongman president battling for survival after accusations of corruption and a failure to bring about national reconciliation. Mahinda Rajapakse appeared assured of victory when he…
Train derails in Moulvibazar injuring 24 – line missing in Joypurhat
At least 25 passengers have been injured as the engine and 6 bogies of the Chittagong bound Udayan inter-city train from Sylhet derailed in Moulvibazar on Wednesday midnight. According to some sources fish plates of the rail track were missing.…
Australia v India: Steve Smith scores fourth century of series
Australia captain Steve Smith scored his fourth century in successive Tests to put his side in control of the fourth Test against India in Sydney. Smith’s 117 saw him match Sir Donald Bradman and Jacques Kallis’s record of four hundreds…
Bill Cosby defended by screen wife Phylicia Rashad
The actress who played Bill Cosby’s wife in The Cosby Show has said allegations of historical sex offences against her former co-star are part of a campaign to keep him off TV. Phylicia Rashad played Clair Huxtable on the hit…
‘Alien Earth’ is among eight new far-off planets
One of eight new planets spied in distant solar systems has usurped the title of “most Earth-like alien world”, astronomers have said. All eight were picked out by Nasa’s Kepler space telescope, taking its tally of such “exoplanets” past 1,000.…
Charlie Hebdo: Gun attack on French magazine kills 12
Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven in an apparent Islamist attack. At least two masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with…
3 killed in Noakhali, Siirajganj, 7 vihicles torched in capital
Three people were killed and 27 vehicles were either torched or damaged across the country on Wednesday, the second day of the countrywide indefinite transport blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance. The killings were reported from in Noakhali and…
Water vessles start plying through Sunderban’s Shela river
The Shela river inside the Sunderbans was opened to movement of water transport vessels barely a month from the oil spill disaster that occured early last month. Environmentalists had been demanding closure of the route through the Sunderbans with a…
Pepper spray was design to kill Khaleda, alleges Rizvi
BNP joint secretary general Rizvi Ahmed yesterday said the 20-party’s countrywide non-stop blockade would continue until they take a fresh decision in this regard. “The blockade programme will continue until further announcement,” Rizvi said while talking to some journalists at…
Fakhrul sent to jail, to be questioned at gate
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) allowed police to quiz BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the jail gate within 10 working days. Magistrate Md Tareq Mainul Islam Bhuiyan of the court passed…
3 Shibir men held in Natore
Police arrested three leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, including its district unit president Alamgir Hossain, from Basila Dakhil Madrasa in Noldanga upazila on Tuesday night.
2,000 kg jatka hilsa seized in Munshiganj
The Coast Guard in a joint drive seized 2,000 kg hilsa fry (jatka) from three passenger launches in Dhaleswari River early this morning.
Motorcyclist killed in Ctg road crash
A motorcyclist was killed and four passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Mirsarai bazar here on Wednesday.
Youth dies after falling from train roof
A young man was killed after falling from the roof of a running train at the North Outer Signal of Fulbari rail station under Fulabri upazila in Dinajpur district today, police and local sources said.
Honey farming turns many into successful small-entrepreneurs
Honey farming has made many people especially some self-committed persons small entrepreneurs in the region.
Jasim Pollimela begins Jan 10 in Faridpur
Brisk preparations are afoot to hold the fortnight long pollimela (village fair) under the style of Jasim Pollimela commemorating the 112th birth anniversary of great folklore poet Jasimuddin will begin here on January 10 at village Gobindapur on the bank…