Staff Reporter :A group of Civil society organizations have urged the government to take a strong position for including the Loss & Damage [L&D] issue as an agenda in the upcoming United Nation (UN) climate conference (Conference of the Parties, CoP 27).In a seminar on Thursday organized by COAST foundation, an organization for Socio-Economic Development (AOSED), Centre for Participatory Research & Development (CPRD), Coastal Development Partnership (CDP), Centre for Sustainable Rural Livelihood (CSRL) and Equity and Justice Working Group, Bangladesh...
AFP :Thirty-four people, including children, died when a freight truck driven by a drunk driver overturned on a hill in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an official said on Wednesday.The truck, carrying 93 passengers, was driving up a hill when it slowed and turned over on Monday evening, killing 33 people instantly. One person later died in hospital. There were 16 minors among the dead, said Celestine Lundanda Panga, a local official in Lubudi city in Lualaba province, where the...
Staff Reporter :The new administration of the financial institution International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), led by its Chairman of the board of directors and former secretary Nazrul Islam Khan, has paid around Tk139.6 crore back to its 4,652 clients after resuming in the office. “We have already paid the amount back to the clients. Initially, we have targeted the small investors as the number of small investors is huge. Paying the small investors, we are trying to manage...
Staff Reporter :As a result of high inflation, severe rate hikes, and the conflict in Ukraine, there is currently a 98.1% risk of a global recession, according to a probability model run by Ned Davis Research.“This indicates that the risk of a severe global recession is rising for some time in 2023,” economists at Ned Davis Research wrote in a report last Friday.Economists and investors are becoming more pessimist as central banks intensify their attempts to rein in inflation, according...
Staff Reporter :Document Verification System (DVS) will bring some positive changes to the accounting system of the country, experts at a discussion said.But, a combined effort from the business community, Financial Reporting Council, ICAB and the stakeholders are required to enhance the credibility and transparency in the accounting system through DVS, they added.They made the comments while speaking at a discussion on Document Verification System (DVS) jointly organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and Bangladesh Institute...
Staff Reporter :Police have recovered the dead body of a British citizen from a hotel in the capital’s Uttara area on Thursday morning. The deceased has been identified as Dugland Finlans who came to Bangladesh with a tourist visa.According to sources, at 9:30am, Dugald Finlayson’s friend Dong Hao Peng knocked the door of the room Dugald in the hotel.When there was no response from inside the room, the door was opened with the help of the hotel authority with a...
Reuters :A signing ceremony would take place on Friday ‘on agreements on the accession of new territories into the Russian Federation’File photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a teleconference call in Moscow on June 22, 2022 AFPPresident Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday to add four territories of Ukraine into Russia, his spokesman said.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a signing ceremony would take place at...
Reza Mahmud :Residents of Dhaka city are yet to get rid of polluted drinking water supplied by Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA).As per different tests, water supplied by WASA is still hazardous, says experts. Citizens are getting infected with various serious diseases including diarrhoea because of the stinky water supplied by the DWASA. In different studies, researchers found the presence of hazardous level of coliform and E-coli bacteria in WASA water. As per those tests, the level of faecal coliform...
Staff Reporter :Deputy Foreign Minister of Kosovo Kreshnik Ahmeti is likely to arrive in Dhaka for a five-day official visit on October 9 to discuss a number of bilateral issues including cooperation, investment and manpower export. Foreign Ministry sources said that the Foreign Office Consul-tation (FOC) would be held between the two countries and sign an array of agreement and memorandum of understanding. Both sides will discuss the visa free travelling for the diplomatic and official passport holders. Apart from...
Court Correspondent :Dhaka Cyber Tribunal yesterday sentenced Fuad Zaman, son-in-law of Bangabandhu murder convict Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, to seven years in the prison for belittling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by supporting his killers.Cyber Tribunal Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Joglul Hossain on Thursday also fined Fuad Tk 5,000 in the case under the ICT Act on Thursday, state counsel Nazrul Islam Shamim said. Fuad will have to serve one more month in the prison if he fails to pay the fine.The...
