Rain or thundershowers with temporary gusty wind likely few places over countryRain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal andChattogram divisions. Rain or thundershowers with temporary gusty […]

Ensuring equal access of marginalized people to social services :expertsExperts and right activist campaigners at a three-day training programme here today urged authorities of relevantorganisations to take necessary measures for ensuring equal access of underprivileged people in the country. Ensuring equal access of marginalized people to social services :experts It is urgent to include marginalized […]

Five Ecuador TV stations receive letter bombs, one explodes . Letter bombs were sent to at least five journalists working in TV and radio stations in violence-plagued Ecuador Monday, one of which exploded without causing serious injury, Interior Minister Juan Zapata said.The prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into the crime of terrorism, […]

Dreaming the impossible dream: the 1.5C climate target .In the realm of climate diplomacy, it’s the little engine that could, the 80-to-1-odds Kentucky Derby winner, the low-budget multiverse fantasy that came out of nowhere to sweep the Oscars. We are talking, of course, about the Paris Agreement goal of capping Earth’s average surface temperature at […]

Red Cross says two kidnapped workers released in Mali .Two International Committee of the Red Cross employees kidnapped in early March in northern Mali were released on Sunday, the organisation’s Malian branch announced.”We confirm that the two ICRC employees kidnapped on March 4 between (the cities of) Gao and Kidal in northern Mali were released […]