Dhaka, Sept 28 – Assuring that it will always be there with Bangladesh over Rohingya issue, the United Kingdom on Thursday proposed three ‘options’, including the full implementation of the recommendations of the Kofi Anan Commission to resolve the crisis.
Bali, Sep 28 (AP/UNB) — The exodus from a menacing volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali is nearing 100,000 people, a disaster official said Wednesday, as hundreds of tremors from the mountain are recorded daily. The National Disaster…
Dhaka, Sept 26 – The driver of acting Rural Development and Cooperatives Division Secretary Mafruha Sultana, who was caught plying vehicle on the wrong side of the road on two consecutive days, was relieved of his duty on Tuesday.
BY TERESA WELSH Chelsea Manning has been denied entry to Canada because she violated the U.S. Espionage Act, according to a letter she posted to Twitter.
Public hearing on the government’s proposal to raise electricity tariff is set to begin Monday in the city’s TCB Bhaban at Karwan Bazar area. Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) will conduct the public hearing from September 25 to October 4…
Dhaka – Different Islamic parties and organizations yesterday demanded deployment of international peacekeepers in Arakan under the supervision of the United Nations and to immediately stop the cleansing drive of the Myanmar authority against the Rohingya.
By Emilio Godoy Mexico City, Sep 20 (IPS) – Central Mexico faced Wednesday the challenge of putting itself back together after the powerful 7.1-magnitude quake that devastated the capital and the neighbouring states of Mexico, Morelos and Puebla the day…
By Farid Ahmed Cox’s Bazar, Sep 18 (IPS) – Forsaken and driven out by their home country Myanmar, tens of thousands of Rohingyas are struggling to survive in Bangladesh’s border districts amid scarcities of food, clean water and medical care,…
Masum Billah Dhaka – Out of about sixty-four thousand government primary schools, twenty-one thousand have been running without their head teachers. A Bengali daily has highlighted this news making it much enriched with many relevant data and information. Though the…
Dhaka, Sept 14 (UNB) – In the wake of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comments on investigations into the alleged money-laundering by its Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her family members, BNP on Thursday warned that the day is not far away…
Florida, Sep 13 (AP/UNB) — With 25 percent of the homes in the Florida Keys feared destroyed, emergency workers Tuesday rushed to find Hurricane Irma’s victims — dead or alive — and deliver food and water to the stricken island…
Islami Andolan Bangladesh has demanded deployment of Army during the forthcoming national election. The party has also given its opinion against the use of the electronic voting machine (EVM) at a dialogue with the election commission on Sunday.
Dhaka – The Office of the Attorney General till Sunday did not receive any instruction from the government to lodge an appeal on the verdict of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that upheld the High Court verdict scrapping…
Astana, Sept 9 – President Abdul Hamid arrived here on Saturday evening to attend the First Summit of OIC on Science and Technology to be held in the capital of Kazakhstan on Sunday and Monday.
The number of people killed by a powerful earthquake off the southern coast of Mexico has risen to at least 61, officials say. A huge rescue operation is under way in the worst-hit states of Tabasco, Oaxaca and Chiapas where…
by Graham Gudgin The great majority of the economic forecasts have concluded that Brexit will damage the UK economy. In the case of ‘no deal’ between the UK and the EU, the majority view is that the loss of GDP…
At least a decade ago, a retired general at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies said to me that the rich countries will never take climate change seriously until some very big and apparently climate-related disaster happens in…
Posted on September 2 by SANDRP New Delhi – On Sept 1, 2017, Reuters published a report[i] about Interlinking of Rivers, with focus on Modi flagging off work on Ken Betwa Project. The report was carried VERY widely, including in local,…
Rashahi – A mobile court has sentenced 8 men to imprisonment for different terms in Rajshahi on Wednesday. The court of Executive Magistrate Hamidul Islam has given those imprisonments on different allegations.
By Baher Kamal Rome, Aug 21 (IPS) – Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather, destruction of natural resources, in particular lands, soils and…
Dhaka – The BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Monday warned that the government and Awami League will have to pay a heavy price someday for taking a conflicting stance against the Supreme Court verdict that revoked the 16th amendment.
Dhaka, Aug 20 – If anyone visits Chandpur municipality, a district down on the bank of the mighty Meghna in the mid-eastern part of Bangladesh, one should not miss a unique kitchen market on its Mayor Road where all the…
Dhaka – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on Thursday signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) that will allow ADB to access and administer GCF funds and scale up the bank’s climate financing to its…
By Desmond Brown The base for a water catchment tank. Faced with severe droughts, many farmers in the Caribbean have found it necessary to set up catchment areas to harvest water whenever it rains. Credit: CDB PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,…
Dhaka, Aug 18– BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the government is deliberately trying to create a volatile situation in the country to ‘perpetuate’ its power.
Dhaka, Aug 10 – Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Thursday said Bangladesh is now on the global tourism map with its growing presence though it could not successfully attract the international tourists in a significant way…
Dhaka, Aug 8 – The female student who was reportedly raped by Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar was taken from Bogra to a safe home and her mother to a support centre in Rajshahi on Monday night.
Dhaka – A High Court bench on Tuesday said that in the Appellate Division verdict there is no chance for further discussion or fresh interpretation over the observations regarding Article 70 of the Constitution, which was upheld by the Appellate…
The Trump administration has issued its first written notification that the US intends to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
South Asia, home to one-fifth of the world’s population, could see humid heat rise to unsurvivable levels by century’s end if nothing is done to halt global warming. A study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, published in the Science…