INTENS, a VTT-coordinated Finnish research-industry collaborative consortium, has jointly committed over €13 million in the next three years, with the ardent funding support of €5.6 million from Business Finland, to proactively advancing, promoting and digitalizing Finnish marine industries and beyond,…
To build climate literate-youths in Bangladesh, a special programme, ‘Climate Literacy Development Training’ organised by the Youth Environment and Social Development Society (YESDS) was held at the Alliance Française, Dhaka on 30 April.
Dhaka, May 4 – A solo art exhibition by Kuntal Barai titled ‘Displaced in Dhaka’ has begun at La Galerie, Alliance Française, Dhaka on Friday, 4 May.
Agroecology has been gaining worldwide interest in recent years as a strategic pathway to transition to sustainable food and agriculture systems.
By Abhas Jha Imagine you were working in development and poverty reduction in the early 1990s (I was!). Only one website existed in all the world in August 1991 (today there are over 1.5 billion). Mobile phones were expensive, rare,…
12th Saarc finance ministers meet held in Manila Manila (Philippines) – The 12th informal meeting of Saarc Finance Ministers was held here on Friday underscoring the need for concerted efforts to attain the objectives of South Asian Economic Union. The meeting…
Dhaka, May 4 – Law minister Anisul Huq Thursday informed that the parliamentary standing committee on post telecom and ICT would hold talks with the media representatives on May 22 for discussing on the issues of the proposed Digital Security…
Dhaka, May 3 – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said people will not accept if the next general election is held without resolving the ‘ongoing political crisis’.
Dhaka, April 3 – The government has sent several letters to the British authorities concerned as part of its ongoing process to bring BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman back home from London.
Danielle Nierenberg On May 8-9th next Food Policy Action (FPA) is mobilizing stakeholders from across the United States to voice their united opposition to the draft 2018 Farm Bill released by the House Agriculture Committee.
In talks and discussion on the World Press Freedom Day on Thursday some intellectuals have blamed the absence of press freedom in the country on the lack of courage and self-censorship on the part of the journalists. But do their…
Chulucanas, Peru, 26 (IPS/ Mariela Jara) — Getting children and adolescents to replace junk food with nutritious local organic foods is the aim of a group of women farmers in a rural area of Piura, on Peru’s north coast, as…
Dhaka, May 2 – The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, was observed in the country on Tuesday night with due religious fervour.
Mohammad Zainal Abedin New York: The US soon launches final operation against ISIS strongholds in Syria, says Heather Nauert office of the Spokesperson of State Department.
Dhaka, May 1 – BNP’s labour wing Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal on Tuesday alleged that they could neither hold a workers’ meeting nor take out a rally in the city marking the May Day because of the denial of permission by…
Dhaka, May 1 – Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday urged the common people and workers to get ready to resist the government’s any move to hold a ‘farcical national election’.
Dhaka, May 1 – Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the government will give priority on power and energy, infrastructure, education and health sectors in the upcoming national budget for fiscal 2018- 19.
13 pioneering mayors have committed to the Green and Healthy Streets Declaration pledging to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025 and ensure that a major area of their city is zero emission by 2030. Signatories to the Green and Healthy…
The UK has backed a “vitally important” nuclear deal with Iran, despite accusations from the US and Israel that Iranians are pursuing atomic weapons.
Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell will stand trial on historical sexual assault charges, a court has ruled. Cardinal Pell formally pleaded not guilty to the charges on Tuesday. He has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
Dhaka, April 30 – Election Commission (EC) Monday said the schedule of the 11th parliamentary polls will be announced in October this year.
Dhaka, April 30 – The mayoral candidates in Gazipur City Corporation polls Monday Promised to build a clean and modern city as well as solve the important problems of city peoples. They also placed their various plans to solve these problems…
Seoul, Apr 30 (AP/UNB) — South Korea says it will remove propaganda-broadcasting loudspeakers from the border with North Korea.
Dhaka, Apr 30 – Habibur Rahman, an East West University student, along with his three friends boarded a bus from Farm Gate to go back to Malibagh and sat on a window seat for a comfortable trip.
By Chris Hedges Feb 2018 – The proliferation of guns in American society is not only profitable for gun manufacturers, it fools the disempowered into fetishizing weapons as a guarantor of political agency. Guns buttress the myth of a rugged…
Chapainawabganj, Apr 29 – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five alleged members of banned Islamic outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Bajitpur area of Shibganj upazila early Sunday.
Dhaka, Apr 29 – BNP senior leader Abdullah Al Noman on Sunday warned that their party will launch a fresh anti-government movement if the elections to Gazipur and Khulna city corporations are not held in a fair and credible manner.
Dhaka, Apr 28 – The horrifying sights of people’s severed limbs left behind on the capital’s streets following road accidents caused by reckless driving is continuing.
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Apr 27 2018 (IPS) – While sustainable development may still seem elusive to some, a new initiative wants to pave a path for nations working towards a greener future.
Member states have voted in favour of an almost complete ban on the use of neonicotinoid insecticides across the EU. Scientific studies have long linked their use to the decline of honeybees, wild bees and other pollinators. The move represents…