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Bangladesh U-19 reach consecutive final 

Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team thrashed Pakistan by seven wickets in the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup’s semi-final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday to advance to the final for the second consecutive time. 

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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.

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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’s 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’s quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...

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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.

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Challenges, progress, and the pursuit of lasting peace

THE Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, popularly known as the ‘Peace Accord,’ 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...

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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.

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JP for reducing PM’s 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...

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Rich countries blamed for ‘imperfect’ deal

The tough-fought finance deal at UN climate negotiations was ‘imperfect’, the Azerbaijan COP29 leadership has admitted, seeking to blame richer countries for an outcome slammed by poorer nations as insulting...

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Poorer nations slam ‘paltry’ $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.

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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...

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Adaptation to combat climate change

COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, brought the world’s 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...

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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...

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Imperilled nations stage protest at COP29

The world’s 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.

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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...

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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...

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BCB announces U-19 team for Asia Cup 

The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday announced the squad for the ACC Under-19 Men’s Asia Cup, which will be held in the UAE from November 29 to December 8. 

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Akbar Ali suspended for two matches in NCL 

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. 

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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...

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Armed Forces Day: some reflections

THE magnificent origin of Bangladesh’s 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 — and led the joint offensive against the occupation forces...

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DIU participates in COP29

A delegation of the Daffodil International University has participated in the 29th Conference of the Parties in Baku in Azerbaijan.