Greece battles deadly wildfire for third day
Greek emergency services battled a massive wildfire threatening Athens for a third day on Tuesday after finding the first victim and thousands of people were kept away from their homes by the flames.
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Greeks try tropical crops in climate change experiment
Stirring the leaves of a shrub on his farm in Kyparissia, western Greece, Panos Adamopoulos spied the first soon-to-be-ripe mangoes 鈥� his share of a state experiment against climate change...
75 migrants rescued off Greece
The Greek coastguard on Tuesday said it had rescued 75 migrants in an area where one of the Mediterranean鈥檚 worst migrant shipwrecks occurred last year.
Looming war between NATO allies
THE relations between Turkey and Greece have never been normal. The legacy of Mongol Turkish conquest of Greece in the fifteenth century poisons all connections between Turks and Greeks. The Greeks remember their Turkish oppressors like other barbarians who invaded their country. They fought hard and long to free themselves from the...
Prices of vegetables, eggs shoot up
The prices of essential commodities, including vegetables and eggs, skyrocketed on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka on Sunday...
Initiatives to sign FTA with Thailand underway: Ahsanul
State minister for commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu on Sunday said that initiatives to sign a free trade agreement between Bangladesh and Thailand were underway...
Trump shooting symptom of 鈥榯roubled鈥� US system, says Green Party chief
Like most Americans, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said she was shocked to learn of a would-be assassin鈥檚 attempt to kill Donald Trump at a campaign rally...
Art unites divided Cyprus
The vocalist and guitarist for the band Island Seeds, Alexis Sunder, prepares for a concert in Nicosia鈥檚 old town with six other young Greek and Turkish Cypriot members of the band that aims to connect the residents of the divided island....
75 years of NATO equals 75 years of denial
JUST in time for its 75th anniversary, NATO has dropped its mask. And the NATO summit beginning Tuesday in Washington is one particularly illuminating moment in this revelation...
Green telecom network for sustainable future
BUILDING a sustainable future is not optional but, rather, a deliberate choice we have to make for a safe future. To reach these decarbonisation goals, telecom operators are trying to have a leadership position in sustainability and the use of renewable energy sources. The Green Telecom Network is now explored as a potential application of green solutions...
Google greenhouse gas emissions grow as it powers AI
Google, despite its goal of achieving net-zero emissions, is pumping out more greenhouse gas than before as it powers data centres needed to support artificial intelligence, the company said...
GUB celebrates permanent certificate achievement
The Green University of Bangladesh on Tuesday at its campus celebrated the achievement of permanent certificate provided by the Ministry of Education as part of the...
Lithonia, Greece, Malawi envoys present credentials to president
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Monday separately received credentials of envoys from three countries to Bangladesh at Bangabhaban in Dhaka....
Greece fighting dozens of wildfires braces for worse to come
A large wildfire broke out southeast of Athens on Sunday afternoon, amid warnings that the worst of the summer heat is yet to come.
Social media, corruption and that goat
NOTHING works like social media when it comes to spreading news as it shows regularly in everyday life. Scandals, sports religion or bed bug spray are all now dependent on social media. If it is not there, it is nowhere. And, this is increasingly becoming clear that while the official, formal and state-inspired agencies...
UGC signs APA with BSMMU
The University Grants Commission signed Annual Performance Agreement with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University at the UGC auditorium in Dhaka on Sunday...
Carbon tax, 鈥榩olluter pays principle鈥� proposed for green finance
Climate finance experts at a press conference urged the government to mobilise more green finance to combat climatic events by imposing a carbon tax and...
Green chilli price keeps soaring
The price of green chilli has surged in recent weeks while that of other essential commodities, including vegetables, has remained high on the...
Green belt to be built in coastal areas: minister
Environment, forest and climate change minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury on Friday said that according to the election manifesto of the ruling Awami League, a 500-metre green belt would be built in coastal areas to protect the country from storm surges...
Bangladesh needs green growth to become upper middle-income country by 2031: WB
Bangladesh will need green growth to achieve its vision of upper middle-income country by 2031, which can be achieved through institutional strengthening, regulatory reforms, climate responsive public and private finance and enabling policy framework, says a new World Bank report launched on Thursday...
EU wants more collaboration in security, defence
Ambassador and head of delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley on Monday said that the EU wanted to see more collaboration in the area of security and defence in Bangladesh beside their support in achieving the goal of green transition...
Pakistan, Greece, Denmark, Panama, Somalia become Security Council members
Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia were elected by secret ballot Thursday at the United Nations General Assembly to serve on the Security Council for the 2025-2026 term.
A greenhouse gas shipping levy is on the horizon
THE world鈥檚 first global carbon price is getting closer to becoming a reality...
Banks鈥� green finance dips
Banks鈥� green financing dropped in the January-March period of 2024 compared with that in the October-December period of 2023 amid a severe liquidity crisis in the country鈥檚 banking sector...
Green chilli import starts thru Hili
The import of green chilli has been started through Hili port in the district after six months....
Nat鈥檒 confce on renewable energy begins at DU
A two-day long 24th National Conference and Green Expo on 鈥楶olicy Frameworks for Enabling Renewable Energy Investment: A Global and Regional Perspective鈥� began on Wednesday at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban Auditorium of Dhaka University...
Greece PM urges EU defend consumers against multinationals
Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on the EU to take on multinationals unfairly restricting the sale of goods in the single market, leading to higher prices for struggling consumers...
Price of green chillies soars
The price of green chillies witnessed a sharp rise on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka in the past two weeks and the item sold for up to Tk聽220 a kilogram on Sunday...
US tariffs on Chinese EVs hurt green transition: XPeng boss
The president of Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng on Friday criticised the fresh tariffs on Chinese cars imposed by Washington as 鈥榰nfavourable鈥� for the United States鈥� energy transition...
BFUJ expresses concern over instability in Green TV
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists president Omar Faruque and secretary general Dip Azad in a statement on Thursday expressed concern over the current instability in Green TV.....