Do you wonder if the world is crumbling before your eyes?
As COP29 progresses, Bangladesh will be watching closely to see whether the international community can meet the urgency of its climate needs.
We should direct our energies towards negotiating agreements that can achieve progress in narrow, but crucial, economic sectors.
We are at the halfway point of this time frame; if we review the current situation, the progress is not good.
During the annual COP, all the world’s media turn up to follow the negotiations on different topics, and many civil society actors, especially the youth, make great efforts to attend.
While commitment is the first step, finance is the most important means for implementation of climate commitments. But in this case, there are huge gaps, as pledges remain unfulfilled.
There is a great need for an annual “Accountability COP” to hold those who have pledged to act against climate change to account.
The sub-inspector who allegedly tortured a Bangladesh Bank official for Tk 5 lakh was closed yesterday.
A man who shot and wounded a policeman at point blank range as he sat in his patrol car was inspired by Islamic State militants, police said.
A Dhaka court will deliver its verdict in a case filed against Oishee Rahman for killing her parents – Mahfuzur Rahman, an inspector of police’s special branch, and Swapna Rahman – in 2013.
