Families want to know whereabouts
The family members of eight people who had disappeared this time last year from the city’s Shahinbagh and Bashundhara area, allegedly after being picked up by law enforcers, demanded to know their whereabouts and asked the government to return them.
‘I want to see the face of my beloved brother before I die. We want to touch him at least once. Please bring him back to us,’ Ferousi Akhter, elder sister of abducted BNP leader Sajedul Islam Sumon, said, speaking at a press conference at the National Press Club on Wednesday.
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Small farmers more than climate victims: IFAD report
Small farmers in developing countries are more than victims of climate change though they are the vital part of solution to global warming, according to a report issued by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
The Smallholder Advantage, a report on IFAD’s response to climate change, shows how investments in access to weather information, technology transfer and disaster preparedness are helping smallholder women and men feed themselves and their families on a warming planet – while restoring degraded ecosystems and reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint.
“We see smallholder farmers as an important part of solution to the climate change challenge,” said IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze. “With around 500 million smallholder farms responsible for around four-fif...
Mamata expresses support to LBA deal
The prospects of implementing India’s Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh brightened today with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee throwing her behind the deal saying “the problem will be solved soon”.
“A solution is being worked out for the border enclaves and the problem will be solved soon,” Mamata said in Coochbehar after inaugurating a number of government projects, reports our New Delhi correspondent Pallab Bhattacharya.
The symbolism of Mamata’s remarks is not lost for those who know that all the 161 enclaves held...
The symbolism of Mamata’s remarks is not lost for those who know that all the 161 enclaves held...
Indian navy to check vessels from Bangladesh
A mechanism needs to be developed to keep tabs on the movement of cargo vessels from Bangladesh to Kolkata as part of the Indo-Bangladesh trade protocol, the Navy feels. After necessary formalities at Hemnagar on the Indo-Bangladesh border, the vessels - which are actually large barges - pass through the fringe of the Sundarbans to Namkhana and northward to Budge Budge and Kolkata.
The Navy had wanted to keep a tab on these vessels using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) but they couldn’t be based at Behala due to problems of land...
The Navy had wanted to keep a tab on these vessels using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) but they couldn’t be based at Behala due to problems of land...
First-ever grassroots-level graft hearing at Muktagacha Dec 28-29
As part of its graft prevention activities, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) for the first time is going to hold public hearings on graft allegations at Muktagacha upazila in Mymensingh, aiming to making public servants accountable to people and thus check the growing graft at the grassroots level.
“We (Commission) have already decided to hold public hearings for two days at Muktagacha upazila. All are set to hold the hearings on December 28-29 next,” ACC commissioner Dr Nasiruddin Ahmed told UNB.
As per complaints from local people, hearings...
As per complaints from local people, hearings...
November remittances up 10pc year-on-year
Money sent home by Bangladeshis working overseas in November rose 10 percent from a year earlier to $1.17 billion, the central bank said on Tuesday.
In July-November, the first five months of the 2014-15 financial year, Bangladesh received $6.19 billion in remittances, up 11 percent from the same period of previous year.
Remittances from its millions of citizens abroad are critical for the South Asian nation of 160 million people.
The inflows are a key source of foreign exchange, alongside garment exports, which account for...
The inflows are a key source of foreign exchange, alongside garment exports, which account for...
