Reuters Delegates at U.N. climate talks in the Polish city of Katowice point to the mining museum next to the conference venue as the proper place for coal, which provides 80 percent of the country’s electricity. Poland’s decision to host the negotiations to revive the 2015 Paris agreement on phasing out fossil fuel has laid…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT After West Indies won the second match of the three-ODI series, yesterday’s game was a do or die one for both the visitors and the home side, but a confident innings from Tamim and Soumya each put things on Bangladesh’s way. Winning the toss at Sylhet, Tigers opted to bat first…
DOT Desk Bangladesh’s average annual foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows has grown by 13.3% in the last five years, larger than the Asia-Pacific’s 2.9% average annual FDI growth, according to a report of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), reports The Dhaka Tribune. The report was unveiled on…
Abrar Hussain of DOT A ceasefire agreement was finally reached yesterday with respect to the city of Hodeidah and its port, according to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres announced at a press conference concluding the peace talks on Yemen. Guterres added that the agreement between Yemen’s warring parties included the deployment of…
Turkey’s military carried out air strikes in northern Iraq on Friday, killing eight militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), it said on Twitter. The air strikes targeted various regions in the area, including Zap, Hakurk and Haftanin, the military said. Turkey has regularly carried out air strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq….
DOT Desk The International Rhymesters’ Conference-2018 was held recently in Rangpur amid festivity entertaining hundreds of children, students, socio-cultural and literary personalities and common people, reports The Daily Observer. The Rangpur divisional committee of Rhyme Sangsad organised the daylong event for the first time at the Town Hall auditorium on the Public Library premises in…
Seth B. Waxman/CNN Recent revelations in memoranda filed by the government against Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort describe even more widespread and troubling contacts with the Russians. However, since the inception of the Mueller investigation, President Donald Trump, his lawyers, legal pundits on both sides of the aisle, and everyone in between has…
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been removed from a university campus in Ghana’s capital, Accra. University of Ghana lecturers began a petition for its removal shortly after it was unveiled in 2016 by India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee. The petition said Gandhi was “racist” and African heroes should be…
DOT Desk Bangladesh High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria is participating in the Asian Film Festival for the first time which will continue until 14 December, reports The Prothom Alo. Ten countries, including Bangladesh, are participating in the festival, formally inaugurated on 10 December, at the Korean Cultural Centre, Abuja. It marks the second yearly gala…
DOT Desk Jointly directed by Abir Khan and Rashed Shamim, Postmaster 71 has paired of Ferdous and Moushumi. Interestingly, Ferdous is also the scriptwriter and producer of the film through his production Nuzhat Films, reports The Independent. The film was made about Bangladesh’s Liberation and the newer generations will know about our Liberation War,” said…