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AL became bankrupt after 2014: Info Adviser

Information and Broadcasting Adviser, Md. Mahfuj Alam said that the Awami League (AL) faced insolvency or bankruptcy after 2014.

"Despite the party's organisational size, its internal viability had been severely undermined," he said while speaking as the special guest at a book unveiling ceremony at a hotel in the city on Tuesday. The book title ‘Agnijara Barsha (Fiery Monsoon)’ was unveiled at the end of the ‘Economic Reform Summit 2025. Voice for Reform, BRAIN, Fintech Society, INNOVISION and Nagorik Coalition organised the two-day summit. In his speech, Mahfuj Alam acknowledged that the July Uprising had presented a golden opportunity for reform.

Pak Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chair calls on CA

The visiting Chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna late Saturday.
During the meeting, they discussed a wide range of issues concerning Bangladesh–Pakistan relations, including the growing importance of bilateral trade, investment, and defence cooperation.

Bangladesh leads climate action commitments

Bangladesh’s climate action pledges outlined in the third Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 3.0) under the Paris Agreement have set a global precedent by embedding just transition principles at the heart of the country’s national climate strategy. Submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 30 September, Bangladesh’s climate strategy for the first time incorporates just transition to ensure that the shift to environmentally sustainable and low-carbon economies is job-rich, gender-responsive and inclusive, leaving no one behind.

Gaza deal signed amid hope in Middle East 

          • US President hails ‘tremendous day for the Middle East’ at gathering of world leaders in Sharm El-Sheikh
          • Trump meets with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas
US President Donald Trump hailed a “tremendous day for the Middle East” as he and regional leaders signed a declaration Monday meant to cement a ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners. [caption id="attachment_34143" align="alignleft" width="856"]

CA places six proposals to end hunger

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today placed six proposals for a complete transformation of the global food and economic systems to end hunger, saying hunger is caused by the failure of the existing economic framework. “Hunger is not caused by scarcity. It is caused by the failure of the economic framework that we have designed . . . we must change the system,” he said.
The chief adviser presented a keynote speech at the grand opening of the World Food Forum (WFF) flagship event 2025 at...

Nobel Economics goes to trio for work on tech-driven growth

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded on Monday to American-Israeli Joel Mokyr, Frenchman Philippe Aghion and Canadian Peter Howitt for their work on the impact of technology on sustained economic growth. Mokyr, 79, won one half of the prize "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Aghion, 69, and Howitt, 79, shared the other half "for the theory...
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