Finding Hope

    Samiul Bashar Samin He looks into their eyes and the despair in their red eyes says it all. It seemed like it had been eons since they last saw the colors of the sky to be blue. Rainbows were just ancient mytholo to them. There was not a single cloud that failed to breathe out…

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      BB for strengthening water and energy efficiency investment

      BSS Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) SK Sur Chowdhury today laid emphasis on strengthening water and energy efficiency investment for achieving sustainable development. “Mechanisms to capture the opportunities for water and energy efficiency investments need to be created or strengthened,” he said while addressing a workshop on “Water and Energy Efficiency Financing” as the…

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        Good talks on security with US senators: Poland’s president

          AP, Warsaw Poland’s president said Sunday that he had held very good talks with U.S. senators about the security situation in Central and Eastern Europe, before a NATO summit that Poland will host in July. Andrzej Duda said that the five members of the U.S. Senate’s Intelligence Committee were “not interested in” and didn’t…

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          Human Rights Day overmorrow

          DOT Desk Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year, Human Rights Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone…

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            Govt mulling tuition-free schools till class 8

            M Humayun Kabir: The government is thinking about introducing tuition-free schooling for children from primary levels up to junior school level – class VIII. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman disclosed the government’s plan while speaking to reporters at a press conference arranged for the occasion of International Literacy Day 2018 held at his…

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              S. Korea team to fly North to discuss summit details

              AFP: A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North Korea this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between Washington and Pyongyang. The South’s President Moon Jae-in Sunday named his top security adviser as a special envoy to the North to discuss details before Moon’s planned…

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