Bangladesh beat India to retain U-19 Asia Cup title
Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team retained the ACC U-19 Asia Cup title with a crushing 59-run win over their Indian counterparts in the final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.
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Bangladesh U-19 reach consecutive final聽
Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team thrashed Pakistan by seven wickets in the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup鈥檚 semi-final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday to advance to the final for the second consecutive time.聽
Bangladesh lose to SL in final group game
Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team suffered a narrow seven-run defeat against Sri Lanka in their third and final group-stage match of the ACC U-19 Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Revisiting Shahbagh events and July-August uprising
THE Shahbagh movement of 2013 and the recent July-August uprising stand as defining chapters in the evolving narrative of Bangladesh鈥檚 socio-political history. The two protests, distinct in origins and goals though, explain interwoven paths of public mobilisation, collective memory and the exercise of state power. The Shahbagh movement emerged from a nation鈥檚 quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...
Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks: Taliban
An Afghan environment official on Sunday said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban officials attended for the first time...
CPB holds countrywide national flag procession
Communist Party of Bangladesh leaders on Sunday at a rally said that the spirit of the liberation war of 1971 has not yet been implemented...
Bangladesh U-19 team storms into semi-final
Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team stormed into the semi-finals of the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup with a crushing five-wicket win over Nepal in their second group-stage match at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.
Challenges, progress, and the pursuit of lasting peace
THE Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, popularly known as the 鈥楶eace Accord,鈥� was signed on December 2, 1997, between the government and the Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti. It has been widely discussed locally and internationally. The accord ended the 20-year-long, violent conflict and set the stage for inclusive, peaceful, and integrated coexistence between Bengalis and indigenous...
Contentious COP29 deal casts doubt over climate plans
A bitterly-fought climate finance deal reached at COP29 risks weakening emissions-cutting plans from developing countries, observers say, further raising the stakes for new national commitments due early next year.
Tamim propels Bangladesh to win over Afghanistan
Defending champions Bangladesh secured a 45-run win against their Afghanistan counterpart in the Under-19 Asia Cup opener at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday.
JP for reducing PM鈥檚 power
Jatiya Party on Thursday proposed 19-point reform proposals including repeal of the 15th amendment to the constitution and reinstatement of the caretaker government system for holding general elections...
Rich countries blamed for 鈥榠mperfect鈥� deal
The tough-fought finance deal at UN climate negotiations was 鈥榠mperfect鈥�, the Azerbaijan COP29 leadership has admitted, seeking to blame richer countries for an outcome slammed by poorer nations as insulting...
Poorer nations slam 鈥榩altry鈥� $300b deal
The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal on Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.
COP29: loss and damage fund
WHEN the loss and damage finance needs are in billions, around $810 million has been pledged so far for the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, previously known as the Loss and Damage Fund, including pledges made in COP29. This is around 0.2 per cent of the irreversible losses and damages the developing countries are experiencing every...
Adaptation to combat climate change
COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, brought the world鈥檚 attention once again to strategies to address the climate crisis. While reducing emissions (mitigation) remains essential, it has become increasingly clear that even with significant global efforts, the consequences of climate change are here to stay. Rising sea levels, erratic weather patterns, and...
Official recognition of flag hoisting day demanded
Politicians, youth leaders and professionals at a discussion in Dhaka on Saturday demanded the official recognition of the day of the first national flag hoisting before the beginning of the war of independence in 1971...
Imperilled nations stage protest at COP29
The world鈥檚 most climate-imperilled nations stormed out of consultations in protest at the deadlocked UN COP29 conference Saturday, as simmering tensions over a hard-fought finance deal erupted into the open.
Fight demands more than funds, policies
AS THE world came together for COP29 in Baku, the need to tackle climate change has never been more urgent. The Conference of the Parties, or COP, is a UN initiative that began in 1995 to address the growing climate crisis. The foundation for global climate action was laid much earlier at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro...
Bangladesh urges EU to support in allocating $200b to LDCs
Bangladesh urged the European Union to support a proposal for allocating $200 billion to the least developed countries and the most vulnerable countries, to ensure the nations鈥� ability to...
Nations race to land climate deal as COP29 draft rejected
Negotiators raced against the clock at UN climate talks on Thursday to broker a trillion-dollar deal to help poorer nations tackle global warming after rich and developing countries roundly rejected a draft deal...
BCB announces U-19 team for Asia Cup聽
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday announced the squad for the ACC Under-19 Men鈥檚 Asia Cup, which will be held in the UAE from November 29 to December 8.聽
Akbar Ali suspended for two matches in NCL聽
Rangpur and Under-19 World Cup-winning captain Akbar Ali has been suspended for two matches for breaching the code of conduct in the fifth round of the ongoing National Cricket League.聽
The hypocrisies of COP29
COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128 per cent between 2000 and 2021. Between 2006 and 2021, gas exports rose by a monumental 29,290 per cent. A dizzying...
Bangladesh to celebrate Armed Forces Day on Nov 21
The Armed Forces Day will be observed today amid festivity and enthusiasm marking the establishment of the army, navy and air forces during the 1971 Liberation War...
Rich nations urged to commit up to $900b at climate talks
Negotiators at deadlocked UN climate talks said Wednesday that rich countries have been urged to commit as much as $900 billion per year to help poorer nations take action against global warming...
Armed Forces Day: some reflections
THE magnificent origin of Bangladesh鈥檚 Armed Forces Day goes back to 1971 in the battlefields of the war of independence. November 21 is a significant day in the victory saga of patriotism. On this day, the army, the navy and the air force united with the Mukti Bahini, freedom fighters 鈥� and led the joint offensive against the occupation forces...
COP29 negotiators strive for deal after G20 鈥榤arching orders鈥�
Negotiators toiled Tuesday to break a deadlock at UN climate talks after G20 leaders acknowledged the need for trillions of dollars for poorer nations but left key sticking points unresolved.
Bangladesh rejects climate loans, demands fair financing at COP29
Bangladesh, one of the nations most affected by climate change, is not receiving adequate financial support as promised under international agreements, said the country's interim government鈥檚 environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan.
Health workers recruited during Covid-19 crisis demand contract extension
A group of frontline workers employed during the Covid-19 crisis are continuing their protest outside the Directorate General of Health Services in Dhaka demanding an extension of their employment contracts beyond December.