BETWEEN 1950 and 2017, the world produced 9.2 billion tonnes of plastic, most of it intended for single use. Only nine per cent has ever been recycled and 12 per cent incinerated, leaving approximately 79 per cent accumulated in our environment. This accumulation has led to global plastic pollution, posing a planetary health threat. Plastics break down...
THIS is deplorable that the authorities have failed to relocate chemical warehouses from residential neighbourhoods in Dhaka even 10 years after the project was initiated. Despite repeated disasters at Nimtali, Chawkbazar and, most recently, Rupnagar, the relocation of chemical warehouses remains mired in a cycle of missed deadlines and unfulfilled pledges. The failure has...
The Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh, the leading trade body in the tourism industry, honored thirteen individuals for their outstanding contributions to Bangladesh鈥檚 tourism sector, according to a press release.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed on Thursday to calm the trade war between China and the United States that has roiled global markets, with Washington cutting some tariffs and Beijing committing to keep supplies of critical rare earths flowing...
Pubali Bank PLC鈥檚 ICT Operation Division recently arranged a virtual workshop on 鈥楥yber Security Awareness,鈥� said a press release...
Kaspersky鈥檚 Global Research and Analysis Team or GReAT has uncovered evidence linking HackingTeam successor, Memento Labs, to a new wave of cyber-espionage attacks, said a press release...
The price of copper reached a record high in trading Wednesday, the industrial metal boosted by hopes of a truce in the US-China trade war...
Brazilian forward Vinicius has issued a public apology to Real Madrid after his angered reaction to being substituted during a tense 2-1 win over arch-rival Barcelona at the weekend...
Bodies piled up in poor neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday as police launched their biggest ever raids on the city鈥檚 drug traffickers, leaving at least 64 dead in war-like scenes...
A new 10-member supporting committee has been formed to reactivate the activities of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services...
THE recent US government military surge vis-a-vis Venezuela, including the USS Gerald R Ford and the most advanced warplanes, has generated fears of a potentially dangerous escalation. President Donald Trump has said the operation was aimed at cracking down on drug trafficking and alleged that Venezuela is a conduit for such activity. Drug trafficking is...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association and the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association would jointly establish a temporary warehouse at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to ensure uninterrupted export activities following a devastating fire that disrupted import operations...
Venezuela on Sunday blasted the arrival in nearby Trinidad and Tobago of a US warship as a dangerous 鈥榩rovocation,鈥� amid mounting fears of potential attacks against the Venezuelan mainland.
A US warship arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on drug traffickers and Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Bangladesh Top Software Engineer programme, also known as B-TopSE, was launched on Sunday at a seminar hosted by JICA, in collaboration with Bangladesh Computer Council and the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services, said a press release...
Bank Asia鈥檚 human resources division organised 鈥楤reast Cancer Awareness Programme鈥� as part of the bank鈥檚 ongoing commitment to employee well-being, said a press release...
Physician Habibullah Talukder Ruskin was honoured with the Green Delta鈥揃rac Bank Tara Award in recognition of his outstanding advocacy and contributions to raising cancer awareness in Bangladesh...
Shamsuddin Biswas, who took part in the World War II as a British soldier, died at about 5:00am at a private hospital in Jashore on Wednesday...
With the vision 鈥榬oad safety is our collective responsibility鈥�, tyre brand ZESS Tyre undertook an initiative to promote road safety awareness to improve overall road safety conditions, launching a day-long public awareness campaign across 11 major intersections in Dhaka on Wednesday...
Bangladesh volleyball team started the CAVA Cup for Men 2025 with a commanding 3-0 win over the Maldives at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday...
THE recent suicide of Swarnamoyee Biswas, a female journalist at the online media outlet Dhaka Stream, after accusing her section chief Altaf Shahnewaz of sexual harassment, has sparked a storm of outrage. Swarnamoyee worked there as a graphics designer. Her complaint against Altaf Shahnewaz, alleging sexual harassment and workplace bullying, was not...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission is ramping up various initiatives and activities to enhance investment education and capital market awareness across the nation...
A day-long Lalon festival and fair was held at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on Saturday...
Bank Asia PLC received the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute SDG Award 2025 for its contributions in Inclusive Banking, Economic Growth, Digital Transformation, Climate Finance, and Customer Education, according to a press release...
A US judge on Friday granted an injunction barring Israeli spyware maker NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users but slashed a $168 million damages award at trial to just $4 million...
ANOTHER fire, another round of grief, and yet, another reminder that Bangladesh has not learned from its past. On October 14, a blaze tore through a garment factory and adjacent chemical warehouse at Rupnagar of Mirpur in Dhaka, killing at least 16 people and injuring many more. Firefighters battled for hours to bring the inferno under control, but for those...
The National Citizen Party (NCP) on Saturday called on Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed to apologise for his remarks about the 鈥楯uly Warriors鈥� 鈥� individuals who demonstrated on the day of the July Charter signing.
Smoke continued to rise on Thursday from the site, where two days ago a fire broke out at a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garment factory at Shialbari of Mirpur in the capital on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people.
China said on Wednesday that trade wars had 鈥榥o winners鈥�, after US president Donald Trump warned that the United States could stop buying cooking oil from the country.
