DOT Desk: On the penultimate day of the United Nations Water Conference, two UN agencies announced several potentially game-changing commitments that could enable countries to quickly gather data on the state of their water resources, and boost efficiency of water use for ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Xi Jinping walks a diplomatic tightrope as he heads to Moscow, seeking to present China as a global peacemaker while strengthening ties with his closest ally, President Vladimir Putin, who faces criminal charges over his Ukraine war. Leaving on Monday for his first ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: A Russian deputy prime minister said yesterday he hoped Moscow and Beijing would sign a contract to build the massive Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline by the end of the year. Moscow is looking to pivot gas exports to countries which have not imposed sanctions targeting ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: The Department of Environment in its new Environmental Conservation Rules has exempted small coal and gas power plants from Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), raising concerns among environmentalists, reports The Daily Star. Under the Environmental Conservatio ...বিস্তারিত
The Guardia: Human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s health has suffered so much inside a Bahraini prison that his daughter Maryam has offered to trade places with him. She fears that without urgent action, her father will slowly die behind bars without being able to ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced relentless questioning from combative US lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle yesterday over the video-sharing app's alleged ties to China and its danger to teens. The 40-year-old Singaporean suffered unusually intense grilling by ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Asian markets dipped yesterday after a broadly healthy week, as lingering concerns about the banking sector played against hopes central banks could be nearing the end of their interest rate hiking cycle. Pledges by authorities to provide support to troubled lenders and ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: New evidence that raccoon dogs were at the Chinese market where Covid is suspected to have first infected humans has reignited debate over the origin of the pandemic. The researchers who unexpectedly stumbled over the genetic data say that it supports -- but cannot defi ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Canada's population increased by more than a million people for the first time in history in 2022, almost entirely due to a surge in immigrants and temporary residents, Statistics Canada said on yesterday. Total population grew by a record 1.05 million people to 39.57 ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: The Chinese military said it had tracked a US warship in the South China Sea yesterday and "warned it to leave" waters claimed by Beijing. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea -- a strategic waterway through which trillions of dollars in trad ...বিস্তারিত
