Development

Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kong Xuanyou ha reiterated his country’s commitment to play a positive and constructive role in resolving the Rohingya crisis. He also appreciated the staunch political will of Bangladesh to resolve...

The British Council and Chevron held the closing ceremony for the ‘English for Business Success’ Project on 7 November 2018 at the Chevron office in Gulshan, Dhaka. The event showcased the impact and outcomes of the...

“Single-use” was named the Collins Dictionary word of the year on Wednesday, following a four-fold increase in usage since 2013 in a reflection of increased concerns about sustainability. It edged out “MeToo” and “whitewash” to top...

When an endangered female North Atlantic right whale spends months, even years, disentangling itself from cast-off fishing nets, there’s not much energy left over for mating and nursing calves. Coping with such debris, along with ship...

Extracting a dollar’s worth of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin from the deep Web consumes three times more energy than digging up a dollar’s worth of gold, researchers said Monday. There are now hundreds of virtual currencies...

Gulshan Society launched its annual mosquito control program on Sunday, 4 November 2018. The Civic Utilities Team worked with the Zonal Convener responsible for the specific neighborhood to target highly vulnerable areas including Roads 126 and...

The result of the 2018 Brazilian general election sent a clear message: scandal after high-profile scandal has made corruption a central concern for the Brazilian electorate. Corruption of the scale revealed in ‘Lava Jato’ and related...

On October 26, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Bhutan. 1 Bhutan continued to make strides in raising per capita incomes and reducing poverty as it...

International efforts to save some of the world’s rarest and economically important plants from climate change are doomed to fail because their seeds cannot be stored, researchers warned Friday. As the planet heats and mankind continues...

Authorities here have asked Delhi schools to restrict their outdoor activities as stubble burning in neighbouriung Punjab and Haryana blackened skylines of the Indian capital. Officials and media reports today said the Delhi government overnight issued...