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Coal: Why is India so shameless?
India has a lot of coal underneath the ground, and so, it started to exploit the resource a bit early and has been doing it abruptly to meet the rising electricity demand of the industries and households. The consequence is not pleasant, though the power generation capacity has reached rocket-high, because now the next-door neighbour has…
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IPCC issues fresh warning over changing climate
The second instalment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, released in Yokohama yesterday, has warned that climate change is already negatively affecting every continent and the oceans. As climate change worsens, it will make people poorer, hungrier, and more ill as they contend with more extreme flooding, heat waves, and…
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Jamaat’s Islami Bank was fined thrice for money-laundering
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was fined Tk20 lakh in December 2014 for not keeping client affidavits and also for not informing authorities of suspicious transactions in time. US ambassador to Dhaka Patricia A Butenis on April 6, 2006 wrote to Washington and other related destinations about Islami Bank’s being fined for violation of anti-money laundering law in…
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Critical situation, for many
The chief election commissioner Tuesday said the ongoing violence was not triggered after the polls schedule had been announced on November 25. Opposition began fully-fledged movement against the govt in late June over the cancellation of caretaker government provision since BNP believes polls can’t be fair under AL govt-controlled Election Commission. And if the BNP…
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Updated stories on COP19 from Warsaw
Day 1 Concrete decisions expected at COP19 in Warsaw The 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) on climate change began on Monday in Warsaw, Poland with a hope to decide on how to support the nations vulnerable to climate change impacts before it was too late. Also considered as the finance COP, the Warsaw meet is…
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High Court may act now for Rampal
The High Court on Tuesday will hear for the second day a public interest litigation four lawyers have filed against a massive coal-run power plant in Bangladesh coastal district Bagerhat and construction of an anchorage for unloading coal in the reserve forest area. The plant site has 1834 acres on the bank of a river…
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Callousness over Rampal power plant, and cruelty
They started work on awarding India a job of building and operating coal power plants back in early 2010 – soon after the prime minister signed a 55-point joint communique with Manmohan Singh including the one involving power sector cooperation. No protests were there about the agreements until early 2011 when the PDB held a…
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ধর্ষকদের ফাঁসির দাবীতে আমরা সরব নই কেন?
সোমবার চাঁদপুরের হাজিগঞ্জের কাপাইকাপ ইসলামিয়া সিনিয়র মাদ্রাসার ৫৫বছর বয়সী এক শিক্ষককে ১১বছরের এক শিশুকে ধর্ষনের দায়ে যাবজ্জীবন কারাদন্ড দেয়া হয়েছে। মাদ্রাসার আরবী শিক্ষক শিশুটির উপর পাশবিক নির্যাতন চালায় ২০১০ সালের ৩রা আগস্ট। পরে এই ঘটনা জানাজানি হলে মাদ্রাসার শিক্ষকেরা দুজনের বিয়ে দেয়। কিন্তু মেয়ের বাবা তা মেনে নিতে না পেরে অভিযুক্ত অমানুষটার বিরুদ্ধে আইনী ব্যবস্থা নেন। পরের বছর…
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Is Bangladesh on the right path centring environment?
The government is moving ahead with its priority on the climate change issues. Though climate change is a slow process, we’ve already been experiencing the impacts. The efforts taken now for adaptation and mitigation would be better for the country in the future only if those are executed properly. Bangladesh in the last couple of…
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Nuclear power plants: Bangladesh and global
Bangladesh plans to produce 2000MW of electricity by 2023 and another 4000MW by 2030; the plan for setting up the country’s first-ever nuclear power plant was initiated in 1961; The estimated cost of the proposed plant at Rooppur in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district is set $1.5-2bn; The first phase (1000MW) of the project will…
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ইটের ভাটা মালিকেরা কি এতই শক্তিশালী!
নগরায়ন ও শিল্পায়নের দ্রুত বিকাশের কারনে নির্মান উপকরনের মধ্যে ইটের ব্যবহার দিন দিন বাড়ছে পাল্লা দিয়ে। তাই ইটের ভাটাগুলোর বিশ্রাম নেই, খুব বৃষ্টি না হলে মালিকরা চুলা বন্ধ করেনা। আর তদারকী কর্তৃপক্ষেরও নিষেধ নেই, উন্নয়ন বলে কথা। হুম, উন্নয়ন কে না চায়! কিন্তু কিসের বিনিময়ে সেই উন্নয়ন (!) অর্জিত হচ্ছে এবং সেই অর্জনের ভাগীদার কে…
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Who are to blame for the Savar factory ‘killings’?
The municipal mayor of Savar has been suspended over charges of abuse of power, inefficiency and negligence in approving the design and lay-out plans of the building that housed markets, bank showroom, and five garment factories with thousand machines and heavy generators. Further measures would be taken against him if the allegations are proved. The…
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Tree-felling needs to be controlled
Deforestation has become a grave concern these days for the Bangladesh environmentalists who are monitoring the trend and also the rate of change in climate and at the same time, its adverse impacts. Even though there are laws, the smugglers with the help of influential individuals and forest officials have been robbing the forests in…
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Fanatics vs Scholars over Shahbagh ‘atheists’
Confrontation over ‘atheist’ issue has been mounting high amid government steps and court’s directions to stop propaganda against Islam and the Occupy Shahbagh protesters, who are demonstrating since February 5 to demand capital punishment for all war criminals and a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, top leaders of which are the identified war criminals and are facing…
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GOD, you favour the MEN, shit!
Many women are ignored by the GOD for being woman while they’re raped or harassed by the men; later, the PM, the opposition chief, POLICE & COURTS go soft towards the men; the media and the people spread the incident and protest, but can’t do the GOD’s job. And my frustration is: most men learn…
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মালিক-সরকারের খামখেয়ালীতে শ্রমিক খুন, বিচার করবে কে?
ব্রাজিলের নাইটক্লাবে আগুনে ২০০ জনের মৃত্যু, পদ্মা সেতু নিয়ে হাসিনার আশ্বাস, বিএনপিকে সংসদে না আসার জন্য দূষলেন রাষ্ট্রপতি, ফখরুলকে বিরক্ত করিও না ইত্যাদি হইলো ডেইলি স্টার, প্রথম আলো, বিডিনিউজ২৪ডটকমের কয়েকটি বিশেষ সংবাদ যা বিশেষ গুরুত্বসহকারে শোভা পাচ্ছে তাদের ওয়েবসাইটে। অথচ মোহাম্মদপুরের স্মার্ট গার্মেন্টসের সাত শ্রমিক নিহত হবার পর সেখানে যখন নানা অনিয়ম-দুর্নীতি-গাফিলতি ধরা পড়ছে সেখানে…
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