But the government’s decision to shutter schools was no relief to 13-year-old Nur. Her cramped one-room home in the megacity, shared with her younger brother and parents, feels almost as suffocating as the streets outside. “The heat is intolerable. Our school is shut, but I can’t study at home. The electric fan does not cool … Read more
An Indian villager was killed and another injured after the BSF fired to disperse a “mob of attackers” along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura’s Sepahijala district. A Border Security Force (BSF) spokesman said that around 30 to 40 Indian smugglers, violating the curfew imposed on the border, tried to smuggle contraband items to Bangladesh at … Read more
Firefighters work on the zone of a forest fire in the hills in Quilpue comune, Valparaiso region, Chile on February 3, 2024. Javier Torres | Afp | Getty Images A quiet revolution is underway to address a widely underestimated climate challenge: extreme heat. Local authorities have appointed several chief heat officers (CHOs) in cities worldwide … Read more
New Delhi: The empowered committee on citizenship will consider a report by security agencies on the application made by refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before granting them citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019. “The empowered committee may make such inquiry as it considers necessary for ascertaining the suitability of the applicant, including … Read more
The notification of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, rules, delayed by over four years, enforces CAA in the entire country. It is already in force in certain identified districts of nine states. The notification of rules will, in effect, fast-track citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan for the rest of the … Read more
“Reluctantly, we will bid farewell to many valued members of the Daraz family,” acting chief executive James Dong said in an internal memo published on the company’s website on Tuesday. Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post, acquired Daraz in 2018. “Despite our efforts to explore different solutions, our cost structure continues to fall … Read more
DHAKA: At least 95 Myanmar border guards, some of them wounded, have fled to Bangladesh over the last few days as fighting intensifies between rebel forces in Myanmar and the junta regime, officials in Bangladesh said on Monday (Feb 5). At least two people were killed in Bangladesh on Monday after mortar shells fired from … Read more
Almost 50 per cent of Bangladesh’s groundwater contains arsenic in concentrations that are dangerously harmful for human use, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. The scientists involved in the study analysed water samples from wells across Bangladesh and found that all of them breached the safe limit set by the … Read more
Early signs suggested turnout would be low, despite widespread reports of carrot-and-stick inducements aimed at bolstering the poll’s legitimacy. Two hours after voting began, only 111 people had cast ballots out of the nearly 4,200 registered at one polling station in Dhaka’s west, presiding officer Prashun Goswami told AFP. “I don’t have any interest in … Read more
Dhaka: Anowara Islam Rani, a young transgender from Bangladesh’s northern region has emerged as the first candidate of her gender to enter electoral politics, a symbol of resilience and change in the country, according to a media report on Saturday. The participation of Rani, who is running for office from the Rangpur-3 constituency in the … Read more
