View from Bangladesh: What next for the UN climate talks?
The 2015 Paris Agreement has set in train global actions by all countries to reduce emission of greenhouse gases and prepare for the adverse impacts of climate change.
The next milestone will be on April 22 in New York where the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon has invited heads of government to come together to formally sign the Paris Agreement.
In order for Bangladesh to be able to join that meeting, we will need to have adopted the Paris Agreement domestically.
After that, COP22 to be held at the end of 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco, will be the next stop in the global policymaking process; it will need to develop momentum for implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Scientists uncover wild surprises in tribal Bangladesh
The locals said there were tigers in the forest. They also said there were sun bear, gaur, dhole and clouded leopard. Few took note, but it turned out, not surprisingly, that locals were right. Conservationists surveying the super-remote, little-known Chittagong Hills Tract region of Bangladesh have taken the country’s first ever photos of sun bear and gaur. And last month they discovered a 13-centimetre pugmark (or pawprint) of a feline, which experts believe is a tiger.
“Despite the tremendous challenges [facing] the natural heritage of Bangladesh – all hope is not lost yet,” said Shahriar Caesar Rahman, the co-founder of the new group, Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA). Rahman and his group, which organized the wildlife survey that employed camera traps, have been working in th...
MUN conference at DPS STS School
DPS STS School Dhaka, an English medium school in the city has recently organised a 3-day long Model United Nations (MUN) conference in collaboration with Indian Int’l MUN.
The opening ceremony took place in Army Golf Garden on the airport road where more than 550 students from over twenty different schools along with the school heads were present. Deputy Speaker of Parliament Md. Fazle Rabbi Miah, MP was the chief guest of the event.
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A view of the Model United...
A view of the Model United...
‘Planet Solutions’ — energy financing loan initiates
BRAC Bank launched 'Planet Solutions', Bangladesh's First Energy Efficiency Financing Loan to assist readymade garments and textile industries to invest in energy efficiency technology.
The loan is targeted to the RMG & textile industry who will invest in energy efficiency technology and the Technology Service Provider Companies who provide energy efficiency solutions.
Mr. S K Sur Chowdhury, Deputy Governor, Bangladesh Bank, and Mr. Selim R. F. Hussain, Managing Director & CEO, BRAC Bank Limited, formally launched the loan product at a 
Samsung Studio declares champion, runners up
Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has announced the champion design of the Samsung Studio campaign. The design of freelance designer Ms. Lutfun Nahar Moonmoon has been selected as the champion design and the designs of Mr. Animesh Sharma and Mr. Aniket Bhattacharjee have been selected as the runners up designs of Samsung Studio from the shortlisted fourteen designs.
Samsung has launched “Samsung Studio”, an ingenious initiative to associate greater local affinity through its products and services for Bangladesh in 24 January 2016. The goal was, for the first time ever, the product packaging (or ‘unit boxes’) for Samsung phones will be designed in Bangladesh and for Bangladesh.
Tamim blessed with baby boy
Bangladeshi opening batsman Tamim Iqbal and his wife Ayesha Siddiqui were blessed with a baby boy on Sunday.
The baby was delivered at a hospital in Bangkok early in the morning, according to a Facebook status of Tamim.
In his Facebook status, Bangladesh’s star batsman sought blessings from all for his new child and his wife.
“Our little bundle of joy has arrived! By the grace of Almighty, we’ve been blessed with a baby boy earlier this morning. Though both mom and son are doing fine, Doctors have kept the little o...
In his Facebook status, Bangladesh’s star batsman sought blessings from all for his new child and his wife.
“Our little bundle of joy has arrived! By the grace of Almighty, we’ve been blessed with a baby boy earlier this morning. Though both mom and son are doing fine, Doctors have kept the little o...
