Development

Mexico City declared an air pollution alert for the second straight day Wednesday, urging people to stay indoors, canceling school and moving the semi-finals of the first-division football league to another city. The capital, whose sprawling...

Russia on Thursday presented a draft resolution to the Security Council accusing the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, of politicization just before a new probe begins of chemical attacks in Syria. The draft text, seen...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday the Pacific possesses “a unique moral authority” to demand global action on climate change because its people are bearing the brunt of the problem. Visiting Fiji as part of...

Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia will submit a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday accusing the government of violating their human rights by failing to tackle climate change. The Torres Strait...

Around 180 governments on Friday agreed on a new UN accord to regulate the export of plastic waste, some eight million tonnes of which ends up in the oceans each year, organisers said. The 1,400 representatives,...

Indian officials Sunday said that at least 300 yaks starved to death in a remote Himalayan valley after a bout of unusually harsh winter weather. Officials in the northeastern state of Sikkim said they received the...

To accelerate the economic growth and migrate the country to the middle income status, engaging non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) in the development process of Bangladesh has become of paramount importance in recent years. Keeping this in mind,...

Some 3,000 migrants continue to be held in two temporary detention sites in Yemen’s Aden and Abyan governorates. Among those detained are Ethiopian nationals, many practicing Muslims, who are embarking on thirty days of Ramadan fasting...

Mexico City’s legislature voted Thursday to ban businesses from buying, selling or giving their customers disposable plastics, a major shift for a sprawling capital that is awash in them. The ban, set to come into force...

After huge successes in the past three seasons of National Youth Conference focusing family planning, SRHR, and health issues of young people in 2016, 2017 and 2018, SERAC-Bangladesh is delighted to announce the Bangladesh 4th National...