United News of Bangladesh The Cabinet Purchase Committee on Wednesday approved a number of proposals, including the setting up of a 60MW wind power plant in Cox’s Bazar in private sector. As per the proposal, a US-based company, ‘Taylor Engineering…
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‘2 more Tipaimukh-like dams in offing’
bdnews24.com After Tipaimukh, India is again planning unilaterally to build two hydroelectricity dams on two common rivers in its Meghalaya state, and Bangladesh has expressed concern over it. The government has officially taken up the issue with the Indian authorities…
Padma fund uncertain despite graft case
Greenwatch report World Bank Country Director Ellen Goldstein has said the decisions by the global lender regarding future project financing and implementation in Bangladesh depend on the outcome of its external panel’s assessment. “World Bank’s Panel of internationally-recognised anti-corruption experts…
Tk 21,985 crore for overhead metro rail
United News of Bangladesh The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has approved the much-awaited Tk 21,985 crore Metro Rail project aimed at reducing traffic jam in the capital. The approval was given at the 9th Ecnec meeting…
Cultural deal with US sought
Bangladesh has sought US support to sign a deal on cultural exchange as there is no such agreement between the two countries to strengthen cultural ties. “Bangladesh has agreements with 39 countries on cultural exchange…but there’s no such deal with…
Manpower export to double in 5 years
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said that the annual number of manpower export to different countries of the world would reach 10 lakh annually in the next five years from the present five lakh a year, helping the remittance inflow…
Sustainable politics is the way out
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The historic Victory Day has been celebrated on 16 December in remembrance of the victory of our nine-month-long War of Independence on this day in 1971 over the occupation forces, that led the emergence of Bangladesh as…
Supporting climate-friendly agriculture
Worldwatch Institute This summer, record temperatures and limited rainfall parched vast areas of U.S. cropland, and with Earth’s surface air temperature projected to rise 0.69 degrees Celsius by 2030, global food production will be even more unpredictable, according to new…
School Nurse grieves Connecticut carnage
ABC News Blogs via Yahoonews Crouched in fear underneath her desk, Sally Cox, the Sandy Hook Elementary School nurse, watched gunman Adam Lanza through a small hole holding computer wires as he walked into the school’s office and faced her…
Global malaria battle stalls for fund crunch
Reuters via Yahoo Health Global funding for the fight against malaria has stalled in the past two years, threatening to reverse what the World Health Organisation (WHO) says are “remarkable recent gains” in the battle to control one of the…
Guidelines on media for more freedom: Inu
United News of Bangladesh Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu on Monday said work to formulate various guidelines is underway to ensure more freedom of the mass media. “The mass media are enjoying freedom in Bangladesh,” he said. The minister made…
BD-US air services accord
banglanews24.com A bilateral air services agreement was signed between Bangladesh and United States of America recently. Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Air-Vice Marshal Mahmud Hussain and Brian J Hedberg, Senior Negotiator, Office of the Secretary, US Department…
Japan expresses concern on BD politics
banglanews24.com The Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh has expressed deep concerned over the frequent observance of hartals with sporadic incidents of violence against innocent civilians. The concern came from a statement given by the Embassy in Bangladesh on Monday. The…
Tazreen fire probe finds sabotage
banglanews24.com The inquiry committee formed by the home ministry made five final and 16 general recommendations, including punishment of Tazreen’s owner Delwar Hossain. Convener of the investigation committee Mainuddin Khandaker Monday submitted the probe report to the home ministry. Mainuddin…
1000 New Internet domains in 2013
banglanews24.com Around 1,000 new internet domain names, such as Christmas and search, are to launch in 2013. Just like Christmas coming early, a new internet domain name for all things festive could be among the first to go live in…
Cities hold key to Doha climate gateway
ICLEI press release Bonn, Germany: The UN Climate Change Summit ended in Doha last Saturday after negotiators agreed to the Doha Climate Gateway – a deal that extends the Kyoto Protocol for eight more years, introduces new principles on compensation…
Climate change and the unrestrained elite
George Monbiot Neoliberalism is not the root of the problem: it is the ideology used to justify a global grab of power, public assets and natural resources by an unrestrained elite. Humankind’s greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an…
Nepal’s first Green City
Bhrikuri Rai in Ilam Nepal’s easternmost district of Ilam is known for its diligent citizens and scenic tea gardens, but it is also showing the way about how towns can be cleaner and greener with community participation and competent leadership.…
Questions about Connecticut school shooting
Juan Cole I ask myself, “Why?” Why do US cable news networks intensively cover these mass shootings, making it the only story for a day or two and prying into every detail of them, when they aren’t interested in preventing…
UK’s 630MW wind energy site completed
ClickGreen staff/ENN Construction of the 125th and last turbine at the London Array Offshore Wind Farm has been completed, marking the end of major construction activities at the massive 630MW renewable energy site. Turbine installation began in January 2012 and…
Monitoring air pollutants up in Himalayas
Smriti Mallapaty The Himalayan countries of Nepal and Bhutan will, in 2013, have two permanent air monitoring observatories set up by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) as part of a programme to reduce black carbon and other…
The future of New York after sandy
Andy Soos, ENN It will take tens of billions of dollars to repair the damage of Superstorm Sandy. Will this be the norm of the future as climate changes and the sea level rises? If it is the new norm…
Egyptians vote in referendum on Constitution
bdnews24.com/Reuters Egyptians voted on Saturday December 15 on a constitution promoted by its Islamist backers as the way out of a prolonged political crisis and rejected by opponents as a recipe for further divisions in the Arab world’s biggest nation.…
Mandela recovering after gall stones removed
bdnews24.com/Reuters Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalised with a lung infection, has successfully undergone a procedure to have gall stones removed, the South African government said on Saturday December 15. “The former president…
Armsdrop story returns to haunt Gen Bhuiyan
bdnews24.com A Kolkata newspaper has resurrected the 1995 Purulia armsdrop controversy, implicating the leader of a Bangladesh freedom fighters’ team now there in the Victory Day celebrations of the Indian army. Retired Maj Gen Shubid Ali Bhuiyan is leading a…
Haze over murder during blockade
bdnews24.com The haze over how many people have been detained over the killing of Old Dhaka youth Biswajit Das refuses to recede as the government contradicts police. Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad echoed Home Minister MK Alamgir’s claim…
Don’t report Skype chat, ICT asks media
bdnews24.com The International Crimes Tribunal-II on Thursday barred the media from publishing or broadcasting anything related to reported conversation between former Chairman of the first tribunal and a Brussels-based legal expert. The order came at the first sitting of the…
HC show cause Amar Desh
bdnews24.com A High Court bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday sought explanations why orders will not be issued to detain and try those behind the publication of an alleged conversation between a former ICT judge and an expatriate legal…
Khaleda wants businesses to break silence
bdnews24.com The leader of the opposition Begum Khaleda Zia on Thursday responded to the call of the businesses to shun shutdowns by asking them to join the anti-government movement instead. The BNP Chairperson said this at the closing ceremony of…
Priyanka named World’s Sexiest Asian Woman
Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra has won the ‘Worlds Sexiest Asian Woman’ crown, according to an on-line survey conducted by a weekly magazine. Priyanka, 30, defeated reigning champion Kareena Kapoor and three-times winner Katrina Kaif to claim the crown of sexiest…