Geneva (Kanaga Raja) – While the digitalization of economic activities and transactions can help to overcome barriers to more inclusive development, significant divides in the readiness of countries to engage in and benefit from the digital economy enhance the risk…
By Baher Kamal Rome, Oct 9 (IPS) – Population growth, increasing urbanisation, modern technologies, and climate change are transforming the world at a fast pace. But what direction are these transformations headed in? Are they benefitting the poor and the…
Masum Billah Hats off to Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese origin British novelist who has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2017, for highlighting the curse of war, its aftermath and the background. Waging war is…
Dhaka, Oct 10 – The Supreme Court on Monday deferred till November 21 the hearing of three war crimes convicts against its verdict for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Dhaka – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government was trying to weaken their party and demoralise their chairperson Khaleda Zia by using the state machinery. He termed the issuance of a warrant of the…
Monica Araya The growing popularity of electric vehicles is set to curb one of the largest sources of global pollution. But a consumption bias continues to impede many buyers’ embrace of the technology, and until it is addressed, electric mobility…
Rajshahi – An anti Drug-addiction rally organized by Rajshahi University Association of Law Finders (RUALF) has been held on the Campus on Monday.
Dhaka – The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday issued warrant of arrest against 23 BNP leaders and activists including the party’s Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, her personal assistant Shimul Biswas and Azizul Bari…
Dhaka – The District and Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Monday awarded death sentence to one person while two others were sentenced two life-term imprisonments in a murder case.
Reuters Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Adjida kicked and screamed when the rough and dirty hands of the masked soldier moved up her legs and ripped off her clothes. The 13-year-old pleaded with him to stop when he climbed on top of…
Stephan Uttom, Cox’s Bazar and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka As the influx of refugees continues, the Bangladesh government has cleared forests to build the world’s largest refugee camp Aid groups and environmentalists have warned against possible the outbreak of disease…
Dhaka, Oct 8 – Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday alleged that BNP is lying about the Rohingya issue in a bid to rejuvenate its frustrated workers in the absence of its top leadership.
Istanbul, Oct 9 (AP/UNB) — The U.S. said Sunday it was suspending non-immigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in Turkey following the arrest of a consulate employee, prompting Turkey to halt visa services in the U.S. The U.S. Embassy…
Dhaka, Oct 9 – The well-marked low over coastal areas of Bangladesh, West Bengal and adjoining northwest bay moved slightly north-northwestwards and intensified into a land depression.
Jessore, Oct 9 – Police cordoned off a house in Ghop Central Road area of the district town on early Monday suspecting it a militant hideout.
Dhaka – The High Court yesterday ordered owners and drivers of vehicles with hydraulic horns to deposit their horns to the police stations within 15 days. The HC also asked the police to destroy these horns.
Dhaka – Business leaders and researchers on Sunday called for planned impact assessment of new value-added tax law by an independent and local research organisation to find its actual outcomes credible and acceptable to all. At view exchange meeting on…
Dhaka – Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, who went for one month leave, is likely to go to Australia anytime to stay with his elder daughter Suchana Sinha, according to sources.
Mymensingh – The certificate awarding ceremony of the 8-day journalism training on ‘Crime Reporting and Photo Journalism’ was ended at Graduate Training Institute (GTI) of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh on Sunday.
Malta: More than six billion euros committed by public and private actors to better manage our oceans at European Union-hosted conference in Malta. The European Commission has announced over €550 million of EU-funded initiatives to tackle global oceans challenges, at…
Now almost all buses are seating services though most of the buses do not have the minimum facilities for this particularly in the Gazipur Paribahan buses which travel between Motijheel and Gazipur. People have to pay double fares to go…
Mymensingh – The Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh observed its 57 th founding anniversary on Saturday with much enthusiasm and festivity.
Dhaka, Oct 8 – As part of digitising the country’s land management, some 65 lakh bhumi khatians (records of land rights) have been scanned and indexed into a computerised system. 65 lakh khatians, 18,500 map-sheets scanned and indexed into the…
Dhaka, Oct 8 – The Election Commission (EC) has started bringing back all the 1,100 electronic voting machines (EVMs) from its field offices across the country to destroy the flawed ones.
Two security guards at Al-Salam Palace killed as gunman opens fire at them before being shot dead, Saudi officials say.
Jules Kortenhorst Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time to stem global warming and save the planet. The clean-energy transformation has already begun – and it will play out faster than…
By Andrea Vale Porcon, Peru, Oct 6 (IPS) – Good healthcare can be hard to get – particularly when one lives on top of a mountain. The road to Porcón in the Cajamarca region of Peru, therefore, is as breathtaking…
By Shaun King Last night, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that’s not a typo: More than 500 people were injured in…
In a series of letters that then collector of Panna district wrote when she was a collector of the Bundelkhand district for close to three and a half years, she made startling conclusion that Ken river has no surplus water…