Development

Tokyo-Yokohama remains the world’s largest science and technology cluster in 2024, though clusters in middle-income economies are seeing the fastest growth in the innovation sector, the United Nations said Tuesday. The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, advisor for the environment, forests, and climate change, stated today that international cooperation is required to limit plastic pollution. “We have an opportunity to push together for an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty. We need...

On Wednesday, the Canary Islands in Spain will commemorate 30 years since the first two young men from Western Sahara—the first in an ever-expanding wave of African migrants—arrived there. Since then, thousands of people have crossed...

Professor Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Adviser, has requested the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to implement crucial reforms in various domains, including the court, police, Election Commission, tax administration, and land registration. According...

As it confronts political pressure on immigration, Australia wants to cap the number of international students starting next year, the government announced Tuesday. This will put a brake on a multibillion dollar sector. At a press...

On Tuesday, a powerful typhoon was moving toward southern Japan, bringing with it torrential rain and causing delays for planes and bullet trains. With gusts of up to 216 kilometers per hour (135 miles per hour),...

Rafael Grossi, the chief of the UN nuclear inspector, will visit Russia’s Kursk nuclear plant on Tuesday to “independently assess” the events that followed the historic cross-border invasion by Ukraine into the Russian area. The risks...

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today assured that his ministry would provide all out cooperation to the United Nations (UN) fact-finding team for investigation into the crimes and acts against humanity in...

A UN delegation, led by Rory Mungoven, head of the Asia-Pacific Division of the United Nations Human Rights Organization, today held a meeting with Advisor for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Syeda Rizwana Hasan at her...

The 30th vice-chancellor of the university is Dr. Niaz Ahmed Khan, a professor in the Department of Development Studies at Dhaka University. Dr. Khan formerly held the position of pro-vice-chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). Dhaka...