Marana, Ariz. (CNN) — For the first time in 48 years, you can’t buy a ticket on a US airline to fly on a Boeing 747. On Wednesday, Delta Air Lines Flight 9771 touched down in Marana, Arizona, an arid…
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Product Dev Competition finale at JU Monday
Savar, Dhaka 07 Jan – ‘Battle Royal, the final round of PRODEX 2017 –the product development competition—will be held on Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus on Monday.
Only proposed – says Imran Khan
Pakistan former skipper Imran Khan on Sunday said that he has proposed marriage to a woman believed to be a faith healer but denied reports that he had secretly wed her. According to news agency PTI, Imran Khan’s spokesman in…
All-weather road enables Afghans Valley people to flourish
The rehabilitation of the Parandi valley road in Panjshir Province encourages valley inhabitants to send their children to school, especially girls. Thanks to the support provided by the Afghanistan Rural Access Project, villagers can now take their childern by car…
Int’l media conference begins in Karachi
Mohammad Zainal Abedin, from Karachi Karachi, Jan. 6. Consider Pakistan as your home, as it is friendly to all, irrespective of national or ethnic identities. Karachi is now a terror-free city and revives its heritage and pride as the commercial…
In the wake of the millennium migration
A century ago, Italian immigrants told a joke: “Before I came to America, I thought the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I learned three things: one, the streets were not paved with gold; two, the streets…
Marooned in Bangladesh, Rohingya face uncertain future
By Sohara Mehroze Shachi Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Jan 3 (IPS) – Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugee women from Myanmar are currently living in the cramped camps along Bangladesh Myanmar border. Victims of sexual and physical violence in the Rakhine…
16 young entrepreneurs revolutionising food and farming
Danielle Nierenberg Today’s young food and agricultural entrepreneurs are developing innovative ways to revolutionize the entire food chain. They are at the forefront of reducing food loss and waste, increasing crop yields, improving market access, developing novel technologies, and increasing…
BD Bureau of Statistics blamed for lack of consistency
Dhaka, 04 Jan – Experts on Thursday expressed concerned over the data of the Bangladesh bureau of statistic (BBS) as there is lack of consistency.
Billionaires, fiscal paradise, world’s debt, and victims
By Roberto Savio Rome, Jan 2 (IPS) – Among Bloomberg’s many profitable activities is a convenient Bloomberg Billionaires Index that has just published its findings for 2017. It covers only the 500 richest people, and it proudly announces that they…
The plight of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim Refugees
By Fiona MacGregor Reprint Bangladesh, Jan 3 (IOM) – When a major upsurge in violence broke out in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state on August 25, it started an exodus that sent almost half a million of the mainly stateless Rohingya…
Religion: Between ‘power’ and ‘force’
By Azza Karam UN, Jan 3 (IPS) – In 1994, Dr. David R. Hawkins wrote a book positing the difference between power and force (Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior – the latest revised version came out…
To snap every yoke: World law to end slavery in Libya
By René Wadlow “Is not this what I require of you… to snap every yoke and set free those who have been crushed?” Isaiah, 58 v 6 There are many ways that an individual can be held in chains through…
2017 was full of disasters and crises. 2018 looks like even worse
The UN has appealed for record levels of funding to help those whose lives have been torn apart, but the gap between the funding needs and the funding available continues to grow. And what makes the outlook especially bad for…
The political responsibility in the collapse of our planet
By Roberto Savio Rome, (IPS) – On 20 December, Europe’s 28 Ministers of Environment met in Brussels, to discuss the plan for reducing emissions prepared by the Commission, to comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Well, it is…
Hundreds take part in frigid Coney Island Polar Bear plunge
New York, Jan 2 (AP/UNB) — The sky was sunny and the water was freezing at Coney Island, where several hundred people, cheered on by hundreds more, ran into the ocean Monday to mark the start of 2018.
Trump’s security strategy is one of thuggery and intimidation
By Dr Elias Akleh During his national security speech last Monday, December 18th Trump introduced his administration’s new “America First” national security strategy in a surprisingly unaccustomed calm and calculated mannerism that is uncharacteristic of him. Although it seemed that…
Dhaka College Batch ’67: A dream transcends 50 years
Mostafa Kamal Majumder Dhaka College wore a festive look one day with posters of candidates contesting the students’ union election hanging from ropes tied to temporary poles from the main gate to the college building and on two sides of…
Did telegram impact the world more than the internet?
by David Child The Telegram Service, Launched in the 1830s, Invented by the UK, User calls telephone operator to dictate message, which is then sent by post to recipient The last clarion call of the Titanic, an announcement of the…
Beijing might be starting to win the war over smog
Beijing may have turned a corner in its battle against the city’s notorious smog, according to Reuters calculations, and environmental consultants say the Chinese government deserves much of the credit for introducing tough anti-pollution measures.
The saga of Rohingya refugees
Mostafa Kamal Majumder A tiny tot, playing near a hand-pump beside shanties covered with polythene-sheet roofs was visibly worried as he saw a handful of visitors getting closer to him, and at one stage he ran away into one such…
‘Inappropriate’ panto gag dropped in wake of Weinstein abuse
With their double entendres, cross-dressing characters and more than a few nudge nudge wink winks, pantomimes are part of the long British tradition of stage ribaldry.
Teenage pregnancy deters developent goals
A few years ago, someone shared a video with me that deeply impacted me. It was called “The Girl Effect”. In three minutes, the video demonstrates the fate of millions of girls and teenagers around the world. Years later, when…
“Only our youth can save the planet” – Kumi Naidoo
By Pascal Laureyn Suva, Fiji, Dec 20 (IPS) – “Today’s youth should think of new solutions for old problems like climate change and social injustice.”
UN: “American Dream” rapidly becoming “American Illusion”
Geneva, 19 Dec (Kanaga Raja) – “The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion as the US now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the rich countries,” said Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur…
Move to conduct survey of Sundarbans
Dhaka, Dec 16 – The government has planned to conduct the Unesco-prescribed Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in the Sundarbans and adjoining areas to assess the cumulative impacts of development in the world’s largest mangrove forest for going ahead with the…
Rivers continue to lose mindless mining battle
Undoubtedly sand is essential part of river ecosystem. Like flow and fish it helps rivers stay healthy. It’s critical for ground water recharge, replenishes the nutrients in moving water, supplies lean season flow to rivers and provides habitat to numerous…
Sweden’s success in controlling antibiotic resistance
The Swedish strategic programme against antibiotic resistance (Strama) has played a key role in decreasing antibiotic use on all levels in Sweden over the past 20 years. Through a bottom-up multidisciplinary approach and intervention measures that include treatment guidelines, monitoring…
Money talks at One Planet Summit in Paris
By Paris Correspondent Paris, Dec 14 (IPS) – As funding to combat climate change has lagged behind lofty words, the One Planet Summit in France this week invited governments and business leaders to put money on the table.
Victory Day from a foreign perspective
When the names of freedom fighters are long forgotten, their memory will live eternally in the Bangladesh soil that their blood helped fertilize Sir Frank Peters Today, December 16, is Victory Day… as if you didn’t know and wondered what…