City Desk : Dhaka ranked 13th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 97 at 9am on Wednesday. Pakistan’s Lahore, Indonesia’s Jakarta and China’s Beijing occupied the first, second and third spots on the list, with AQI scores of 198, 166 and 164 respectively, reports UNB. When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 50 and 100, air quality is considered moderate, between 101 and 150 air quality is considered...
Day: May 23, 2024
Agency : The USA’s Harmeet Singh believes Bangladesh may have underestimated them in the first T20I at the Prairie View...
Business Report : The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has no dedicated funding facility to support either renewable energy or energy efficiency, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) Lead Energy Analyst Shafiqul Alam said on Wednesday. “Though there are a number of re-financing schemes for supporting export-oriented industries to take green measures, there is no dedicated funding facility from Bangladesh Bank for promoting renewable energy or energy effacing,” the analyst said while making a keynote presentation at a seminar...
City Desk : Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury on Wednesday called upon the South Asian countries to take urgent actions to cope with the adverse impacts of global warming, halting glacier melting in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. He made the call while addressing the inaugural session of the ‘International Expert Dialogue on Mountain, People, and Climate’ held at Chandragiri Hill Resort in Kathmandu, Nepal, according to a message received, reports BSS. Saber Chowdhury underscored...
BSS : Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhists, was celebrated today across the country with due religious fervor and zeal. Like elsewhere in the world, the Buddhists in Bangladesh, chalked out different programmes, including colorful processions, puja, sanghadan, discussions and cultural functions, to mark the day. Lord Buddha was born on this day of full moon in 563 BC, attained enlightenment and passed away on the same day. Marking the day, Buddhist devotees offered various gift items,...
Staff Reporter : Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud said that the body of lawmaker Anwarul Azim was not found in the flat where he was killed in Kolkata India. He, however, said that the investigation is going on and law enforcers have arrested the perpetrators including the ringleader the killing of Azim, a Bangladeshi parliamentarian from Jhenaidah-4 constituency. “It is very harrowing, regretful and unwanted. The Bangladesh High Commission in Kolkata informed that Kolkata police did not find the body of...
Special Correspondent : Bangladesh, while considered a lower-middle-income country overall, faces significant disparities in poverty between urban and rural areas. The proportion of people living in extreme poverty in rural areas is still three times higher than in urban areas. Food security and undernutrition continue to be major concerns, particularly affecting women, who have fewer employment opportunities, and rural youth, who often migrate to cities in search of work. In response to these challenges, the government has launched the Smallholder...
Staff Reporter : The main opposition party-BNP on Wednesday announced a 15-day programme to observe the 43rd death anniversary of its founder and former President Ziaur Rahman on May 30. Party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programmes at a press conference in its Nayapaltan central office in the capital. Mirza Fakhrul said various programmes has been scheduled across the country to observe the party founder’s death anniversary which will begin on May 28 and will end on...
City Desk : The visiting Australian foreign minister Penny Wong on Tuesday said Canberra will provide additional financial support to Bangladesh in its graduate from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status to the middle-income country. “We will provide additional economic assistance to support your (Bangladesh) economic reforms to support you graduation from least developing country status,” she told reporters after a bilateral meeting with foreign minister Dr Hasan Mahmud at the stare guest house Padma, reports BSS. Her government, she...