Bangladesh, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change, requires USD 3.5 billion per year to strengthen its climate resilience, according to Aminul Hoque from COAST Foundation, Bangladesh. Speaking at a civil society dialogue during the ongoing COP29 Global Climate Conference in Baku, Hoque stressed the need for substantial
Author: United News of Bangladesh
Handling of day-to-day governance needs to improve
With international support, Prof Muhammad Yunus-led interim government should look to score some "quick wins" to keep the public on side, said the International Crisis Group in its report released on Friday. Holding elections without reforms to put checks and balances on a future government could let another autocratic regime emerge,
Tea workers stage protest demanding overdue wages
Hundreds of tea workers took to the streets of Sylhet on Friday, demanding the immediate payment of unpaid wages and rations. Organised by the Sylhet District branch of the Bangladesh Trade Union Centre, the protest march highlighted the dire financial and humanitarian crisis faced by thousands of workers from tea estates
Mobilising youth power vital for a new civilization: Yunus
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday highlighted the importance of mobilising intellectual, financial and youth power to lay the foundation for a new civilisation-a self-preserving and self-reinforcing civilisation. "The climate crisis is intensifying. Our civilisation is at grave risk as we continue to promote self-destructive values," he said while speaking
Focus on elections to tackle conspiracies: Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the country's most urgent need is now a free, fair and acceptable election, as various conspiracies and campaigns are being orchestrated against the nation. Talking to journalists at his residence in Thakurgaon district town, the BNP leader said that the proportional
Pay up or humanity will pay the price: Guterres warns at COP29 climate talks
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that leaders gathered in Baku for the COP29 Climate Action Summit must take immediate steps to cut emissions, safeguard people from climate chaos, and "tear down the walls to climate finance" in response to the "masterclass in climate destruction" that the world has
Bangladesh willing to work with Climate Club: Yunus
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said Bangladesh is willing to work with the 'Climate Club' to catalyse international cooperation in terms of capacity building, technology transfer and concessional decarbonisation finance. "LDCs will need preferential treatment owing to their special circumstances and development needs," he said while attending the high-level
Missing girl found dead in pond near her home
The body of six-year-old Muntaha, who went missing from her house on November 3, was recovered from a pond in Sylhet's Kanaighat upazila early Sunday, said police. Muntaha Aktar Jerin was daughter of Shamim Ahmed of Bharafoud village under Birdal union of Kanaighat upazila. Kanaighat police station's Officer-in-Charge Md Abdul Awal confirmed
BGB busts insurgent den, recovers huge arms, ammos
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) busted a den of insurgents and recovered a huge amount of arms, ammunition, drones, and advanced technology equipment from a hilly, remote area along the Bandarban border on Thursday. Based on an intelligence report, it was revealed that a group of hilly insurgents had
Ex-BCL leader, 4 others held over lynching of a man at DU
Police arrested five students including a former Chhatra League leader in connection with the lynching of a 'mentally retarded' man over suspected theft inside a dormitory of Dhaka University (DU). Al Amin, sub inspector (SI) of Shahbagh police station, confirmed the matter saying that they arrested the students from Fazlul Huq