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That name ‘Bangladesh’ is purely accidental

The front of Mike Johnson’s office on Perkins Road looks like it belongs to an accountant, which it does. Those who use the back door on Friday afternoons encounter a world apart. They call it Bangladesh. Any relationship to the country by that name is purely accidental. Johnson served in the Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War, and about 12 years ago he started military man caveinviting other such veterans to end the work week with drinks, snacks and conversation at his office. If anyone questioned whether it was too early to ...

Bangladeshi couple drive message on climate change

A BANGLADESHI couple is on an expedition to raise awareness in Southeast Asia and around the world about climate change, calling their journey “a ride for a greener Earth”. “We want local people to care more about Mother Earth and be more conscious about the impact of climate change,” Mohammad Shahade Ferdous said. BD coupleFerdous and his wife Fatema Sultana Shama are afraid that their low-lying homeland may disappear due to rising sea levels. According to Fardous, the forest and biodiversity of the Sunderbans National Park - a mangrove fores...

‘My home’ not to be blared with fake housing cos

Undoubtedly it’s a dream of all the city dwellers to own a home. To realize the ‘my home’ they usually go to different housing companies and the brokers who most of the times deceive them. So, ‘dream of my home’ only remains a far cry for the inhabitants of Dhaka city teeming with more than 1.2 million people. While the government is not capable of meeting the accommodation demand of the city people, they have to rely on those tricksters engaged in housing business only to making quick buck, not for the minimum benefits of the city residents. bdreports24-300x214... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Sustainable finance key to health equity

The world faces an alarming shortfall of funding needed to transform global health. If the world is to end preventable child, adolescent and maternal deaths, we need new forms of development finance to close a $33.3 billion annual funding gap. A new financing platform announced this week at the Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia aims to do just that. The Global Financing Facility (GFF) is a country-driven financing partnership to accelerate efforts to end preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescent deaths by 2030. [caption id="attachment_18232" align="alignright" width="504"]

Japan’s security bills to break regional order: Experts

Bangladeshi experts has said that Japan’s security bills will bring new complications into global and regional politics as the country seeks to play an aggressive role to counter the existing regional order. Their comments came after Japan’s ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rammed through the controversial security bills that will expand the role of the country’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the all-powerful lower house of the nation’s Diet amid strong public opposition. BD-JapanThe bills also show that Japan eyes China’s existing ...

Eid ul-Fitr tomorrow

Eid ul-Fitr, the biggest festival of the Muslim community of Bangladesh will be observed tomorrow. Muslims across country thus observed the last Friday prayers of the month of Ramadan. Despite the rain, malls were packed — men, women and children, all were finishing last-minute shopping. Tailors’ machines still sew new clothes frenetically in order to deliver them by Friday night. Eid mubarakA tailor master in a mall in capital Dhaka, Abdul Halim, says: “Most of the pressure we face is in the last week of Ramadan and especially the last da...
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