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Public awareness and fines to begin in December

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- Times Report - October 2, 2024October 2, 2024

The government is set to implement a gradual ban on vehicle honking across Dhaka city by December, with the goal of making the entire capital a "quiet zone" by early next year, according to Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change. This initiative is

World Leprosy Day: Why we need a world without leprosy

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- Md. Sazedul Islam - January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

World Leprosy Day (WLD) will be observed in the world, including in Bangladesh, on January 29. Generally held on the last Sunday of January each year, the day aims to increase public awareness of leprosy and the complications surrounding it. The day is an opportunity to lift up the voices

The Paradox of Invisibility: Submarine Cables and the Geopolitics of Deep Seas

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- Manuel Manonelles, IPS - November 11, 2022November 12, 2022

The recent incidents of sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the depths of the Baltic Sea, the authorship of which still raises doubts today, have reminded us that some of the key infrastructures that condition geopolitics, and our daily lives, are largely located deep under the sea. One of