The World Trade Organization on Monday urged countries to abolish trade barriers in environmental goods and services in order to help fight climate change. In its annual World Trade Report, the WTO says international commerce should not be pitted against combating the climate crisis. The report comes as global leaders
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Cyclone Sitrang kills 25 across Bangladesh
At least 25 people died in nine districts across Bangladesh as the cyclone Sitrang made landfall and crossed Barishal-Chattogram coast on Monday midnight, leaving a trail of destruction. According to reports from correspondents, most of the casualties happened because of falling of trees since Monday morning as Bangladesh experienced moderate
Journalist Raihan M Chowdhury dies
Veteran photojournalist Matiur Rahman dies in Canada
Matiur Rahman, a veteran photojournalist breathed his last on 20 October 2022 in a hospital in Toronto, Canada due to health complications. He was 76. Rahman, elder brother of renowned Bangladeshi journalist Saleem Samad, survived by his only son, wife and two grandchildren. Rahman, a permanent member of Jatiya Press Club, had
BNP champion of minority repression: Quader
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader Sunday said BNP is champion of communal repression on the minorities and political oppression in the country. "BNP is champion of political persecution and torturing minorities in this country... People have not forgotten the record of torture they
Loadshedding has become a terrible menace: BNP
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Sunday slammed the government for the ‘intolerable’ loadshedding across the country, saying this has exposed the government's widespread plundering in the name of development in the power sector. "The widespreadcorruption andlooting havenow been manifested. The power sector was the sanctuary for plunderby Sheikh
JP won’t be slave to any party: GM Quader
Country witnesses blackout for 7 hrs after national grid failure
The country witnessed a blackout for seven hours as power supply remained snapped following a national power grid failure on Tuesday. Electricity was back in all the areas of Dhaka and other districts by 9pm, Badruddoza Sumon, public relations officer of Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), said. Power supply was
Hasina leads a complex, roiling nation: Washington Post
The Washington Post, a leading US daily newspaper, has highly lauded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's strong leadership on the world stage alongside Bangladesh's tremendous progress of women, and achievements in education and poverty reduction has been The appreciation came in an article published in the widely circulated newspaper on Monday,
Target-oriented roadmap needed to reach renewable energy goal
A move by the government to review a 14-year-old renewable energy policy has been lauded by experts and industry stakeholders as Bangladesh is desperate to find out alternative sources of power generation amid a volatile global fuel market and gas shortages at home. In the energy-hungry country, which is struggling