The third partnership dialogue between Bangladesh and the US has been postponed due to conflicting schedule.
The dialogue, between Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and his US counterpart Wendy Sherman, was supposed to 0be held in Washington, DC on October 21-22, reports the Dhaka Tribune.
“We are working on finding a new date,” the foreign secretary told the Dhaka Tribune.
Shahidul will accompany Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the Asia Europe Meeting to be held from October 16 and 17, and he will attend the Compact Review meeti...
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education, and Indian children’s right activist Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
With the prize, Yousafzai, 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner, eclipsing Australian-born British scientist Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 when he shared the Physics Prize with his father in 1915.
Satyarthi and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against th...
World Bank-IMF study for 2011, however, says the pace of reduction in absolute poverty has been substantial; report stresses skills training for youth as key
Bangladesh had six per cent world’s poor while India was home to about a third of the world’s poor in 2011, according to a progress report on various social indicators from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued on Wednesday. In other words, the highest number of the poor lived in India in 2011.
China, whose population is more than our billio...
As it grows more desperate for foreign gas supplies to make up for its production shortfall, Bangladesh has put forward a number of intricate plans to import gas – sourcing it from neighbours such as Myanmar and India, as well as using LNG.
Among these is a plan to take some of China’s imports from Myanmar, in exchange for benefits to Chinese investors, Hussain Monsur, chairman of state-run Petrobangla, told Interfax.
Dhaka proposed taking some of the gas Myanmar currently pipes to China under a gas-for-fertiliser deal – under wh...
How do you price a life lost to floods or cultural heritage destroyed by a storm? What are the costs when an ecosystem or territory is no longer habitable due to prolonged drought, sea-level rise or salt intrusion?
These are some of the questions a recently-launched study hopes to answer in an effort to highlight the value of things that are not commonly traded in markets but hold intrinsic worth for individuals, society and the environment, and that could be lost, damaged or destroyed as a result of climate change impacts.
While the...
The government has announced to create “special economic zone” (SEZ) for the Indian investors as the bilateral relations between the two countries have improved remarkably, a diplomat said. “Bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh have improved a lot.
The neighbouring country has announced to create special economic zone for the Indian investors,” Indian deputy high commissioner in Dhaka, Sandip Chakraborty told reporters last night. Chakraborty came to Agartala for a four-day visit on Monday through Akhaura border to review the progress of different projects of connectivity between the two countries through Bangladesh and transmission of 100 MW power from the 726 MW Palatana power project in South Tripura district. Tripura has 856km long border with Bangladesh which constit...
