27th October 2016 Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility Unlocks Private Sector Finance for Climate, Biodiversity and Jobs JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 27 October 2016 – The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility, launched in Jakarta yesterday, will bring long-term finance to…
Delhi (Indrajit Bose) — The Green Climate Fund (GCF) at its 14th meeting in Songdo, South Korea, in a decision adopted by the Board to facilitate access to environmentally sound technologies (ESTs), encouraged developing countries to submit proposals in this…
Dhaka – Drizzles triggered by the cyclonic storm ‘Kyant’ disrupted the city life on Thursday morning. The rainfall started early hours and is continuing till the filing of this report at 10:30pm. Many streets in the city turned into shallow…
New York (AP/UNB) — Microsoft wants to bring life to common computing experiences by adding a third dimension to widely used software such as Windows and Office. The new tools, part of a free “Creators Update” to Windows 10 early…
Tokyo (AP/UNB) — The younger brother of former Japanese Emperor Hirohito has died at the age of 100. The Imperial Household Agency announced Thursday that Prince Mikasa died Thursday morning at a hospital in Tokyo.
Dhaka: Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Wednesday met Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and discussed issues of mutual interest. Officials from Dhaka and Delhi are in discussions over Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s forthcoming bilateral visit to…
Rome 27 (AP/UNB) — A pair of strong aftershocks shook central Italy late Wednesday, crumbling churches and buildings, knocking out power and sending panicked residents into the rain-drenched streets just two months after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 300 people.…
Dhaka: Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association announced a strike on October 30 from 6 am until their demands are met in all the filling stations in the country. The association made the announcement in a press…
Dhaka: Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been asked by the met office to keep hoisted distant warning signal No 2 as cyclonic storm ‘Kyant’ over west-central bay and adjoining area has moved westwards over the…
Pakistan (AP/UNB) — A Pakistani investigator says the police have arrested National Geographic’s famed green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ for having a fake Pakistani identity card.
Berlin (AP/UNB) — The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday that at least 3,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year in an attempt to reach Europe,, making 2016 the deadliest year on record. The Geneva-based agency…
London (AP/UNB) — Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout,” a stinging satire of race and class in the United States that has drawn comparisons to Richard Pryor and Mark Twain, won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday — the first time an…
Robert J. Burrowes Punishment is a popular pastime for humans. Parents punish children. Teachers punish students. Employers punish workers. Courts punish lawbreakers. People punish each other. Governments punish ‘enemies’. And, according to some, God punishes evildoers. What is ‘punishment’? Punishment…
Dhaka-BNP on Wednesday accused the government of implicating its leader MA Qaiyum in the Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder case with a political motive, and said innocent people are now getting punished while offenders spared as there is no rule…
Dhaka-There is no scope of raising any question about the probe into the killing of Italian national Cesare Tavella as the investigation agency pressed charges on the basis of ‘proper information and evidence’, claimed a senior police officer on Wednesday.
Several environmental organisations including Barisal city unit of Sachetan Nagorik Committee (Sanak) and Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Wednesday formed a human chain demanding compensation to tackle climate change, not loan.
The cyclonic storm, ‘Kyant’, over the east central bay and its adjoining area moved slightly west-southwestwards over the same area on Wednesday.
Dhaka-The 31-kilometre long Mongla-Ghasiakhali channel will formally open on Thursday.
Dhaka-BNP on Wednesday said the National Committee for the Protection of Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources, Power and Ports should accept BNP’s support for gearing up its movement against Rampal power plant project.
Dhaka-The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed for four weeks a High Court order for transferring Sakhipur Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mohammad Rafiqul Islam and officer-in-charge of Sakhipur Police Station Mohammad Maksudul Alam in Tangail over sentencing a schoolboy. Chamber Judge…
Malnutrition costs Bangladesh more than US$ one billion in lost productivity annually and emphasis should be laid on ending hunger and improving nutrition for sustainability of the country’s current economic development, a study said here today.”Under-nutrition already costs Bangladesh more…
Dutch inventors have unveiled a large outside air vacuum cleaner they say is capable of filtering large quantities of toxic particles from the atmosphere.The purifier can clean about 800,000 cubic metres of air per hour, tech start-up Envinity Group said.”A…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her call to all to stay alert so that war criminals and those who killed innocent people in the name of movement and engaged in money laundering can never return to power.”We won’t…
Bangladesh has top-ranked in gender equity in South Asia having closed its overall gender gap just under 70 percent.Bangladesh has ranked 72 among 144 countries in the world in the Global Gender Gap Index 2016 prepared by World Economic Forum.India,…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said his rival Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan in Syria would trigger World War Three.He also said the US should focus on defeating so-called Islamic State (IS) rather than removing Syria’s president.Mrs Clinton has…
Dhaka – Carlos Alberto, captain of the great Brazil team that won the 1970 World Cup, died on Tuesday of a heart attack in Rio at the age of 72, Brazil’s Sportv, for whom he worked, announced.Carlos Alberto starred alongside…
Dhaka – The Inter-district Age Group Women’s Swimming competition begins Friday (October 28) at Sultana Kamal Women’s Sports Complex in the city’s Dhanmondi. The two-day competition to be participated by 240 swimmers will be inaugurated by Youth and Sports Secretary…
Dhaka – Bangladesh cricket team’s Test version skipper Mushfiqur Rahim is going to add another feather to his career when the Tigers will face visiting England in the 2nd Test beginning at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Friday.Mushfiqur…
Dhaka – Three days after beating Juventus, the inexperience of AC Milan’s young squad showed in a 3-0 loss at Genoa on Tuesday that saw the 10-man Rossoneri waste a chance to take the Serie A lead.Nikola Ninkovic put the…