Water world: The winners of the 2018 Urban Drinking Water Challenge, a global innovation competition to deploy and scale decentralized drinking water solutions for fast-growing, water-scarce cities, were showcased at an award ceremony hosted by Founding Partners Bluewater an ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: Even after greater electricity coverage, a large portion of the rural population still depends on kerosene as their source of light and means of cooking and they are not getting the benefit of power sector subsidy as they have to pay more on the fossil fuel, fin ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon declared the capital's Dhanmondi area free from waste, after inaugurating five Secondary Transfer Stations (STS) for dumping waste beside Kalabagan playground in the city, reports Daily Star. The mayor sai ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: A Bangladeshi national is suspected of helping to organise the boat crossing that left around 200 people in the waters between Malta and Sicily, where they were rescued more than 10 days ago, according to a newspaper report. The Local wrote on Monday that four o ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: A new study conducted by a researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has revealed that milk consumption has a large impact on linear growth in the crucial first 1,000 days of an infant's life, potentially reducing stunting by as much ...বিস্তারিত
NDTV: Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a Riyadh park, engine roaring, tyres screeching and clouds of dust billowing from the back. For Saudi women, such adrenaline rushes were unimaginable just weeks ago. Speed-craz ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: As many as 274 pirates of 26 gangs have surrendered to the law enforcement in the last two years, choosing to make a return to normal life. Over hundred have been killed in [gunfights[ while around 500 have been put behind the bars. Yet, the situation has hard ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: A health centre at Ujaldanga in Fulchhari upazila has been completely eroded by the surging water of the Jamuna river, and 55 families have lost their homesteads and croplands, reports Daily Star. Ujaldanga health centre went into the river on August 17 as the ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: The country's rice production hit a new record of 36.2 million tonnes in the last fiscal year (FY), 2017-18, reports Financial Express. According to the official data, the output was 7.1 per cent higher than that of FY '17. It was 34.7 million tonnes (the then ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: A group of youths in the town has taken a laudable initiative for helping people of the Hindu community to carry the dead bodies of their near and dear ones to the crematorium with ease, reports Daily Star. The townspeople, especially the poor ones, have been f ...বিস্তারিত
