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July 3, 2023

Study aims to price social, cultural costs of climate damage

How do you price a life lost to floods or cultural heritage destroyed by a storm? What are the costs when an ecosystem or territory is no longer habitable due to prolonged drought, sea-level rise or salt intrusion? These are some of the questions a recently-launched study hopes to answer in an effort to highlight the value of things that are not commonly traded in markets but hold intrinsic worth for individuals, society and the environment, and that could be lost, damaged or destroyed as a result of climate change impacts. climateWhile the...

Film industry hopes to step out of Bollywood’s shadow  

With his debut nominated for the top prize at Asia’s biggest film festival, Bangladeshi director Abu Shahed Emon is hopeful that his achievement will help spur on his compatriot filmmakers. “Jalal’s Story” is the first-ever Bangladeshi film to vie for the New Currents award at the Busan International Film Festival - the event’s main category that offers two prizes of $30,000 to first or second-time directors. The film follows a young orphaned boy as he faces the harsh realities of life on the fringes of rural Bangladeshi society. bd cultureEmon...

Bangladeshi construction worker murdered in Kedah

A Bangladeshi worker was found dead with multiple slash wounds to his body at an unnumbered two-storey house in Kampung Batas, Jenalik near here. A neighbour who regularly sent food to the victim is reported to have discovered his body at the upper floor of the house at about 8.30am, Tuesday. SINGAPORE-CRIME-RIOTS-UNRESTThe neighbour, who declined to reveal her name, said the deceased – Daud Hossain, a construction worker in his 40s – had been missing for two days before Hari Raya Aidiladha. Kubang Pasu District Police Chief Superint...

Special Economic Zone for Indian investors announced

The government has announced to create “special economic zone” (SEZ) for the Indian investors as the bilateral relations between the two countries have improved remarkably, a diplomat said. “Bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh have improved a lot. The neighbouring country has announced to create special economic zone for the Indian investors,” Indian deputy high commissioner in Dhaka, Sandip Chakraborty told reporters last night. Chakraborty came to Agartala for a four-day visit on Monday through Akhaura border to review the progress of different projects of connectivity between the two countries through Bangladesh and transmission of 100 MW power from the 726 MW Palatana power project in South Tripura district. Tripura has 856km long border with Bangladesh which constit...

Invention of blue LEDs wins physics Nobel    

The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists in Japan and the US for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs). Professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura made the first blue LEDs in the early 1990s. By combining blue light with existing red and green LEDs, this enabled a new generation of bright, energy-efficient white lamps as well as LED screens. nobel prize22The winners will share prize money of eight million kronor (£0.7m). They were named at a press conference in Sw...

Millennium Development Goals expire next year … What then?  

If you could come up with goals for the world to aspire to over the next 15 years, what would they be? What should we focus on? The United Nations is conducting an online survey, asking people from around the world what matters most to them. More than 2.5-million people have responded, with everything from better transport and roads to affordable and nutritious food under consideration. So far, the top global priority is better education, followed by better healthcare and an honest and responsive government, with reliable energy and climate change at the bottom. But to make a more considered list, we need much more information on what solutions exist, their cost and their likelihood of success to better prioritise these goals.