Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright said coal, natural gas, and nuclear power protected the US electricity grid during a severe cold snap, while criticising wind and solar generation.
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Russia agreed not to fire on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for a week during extreme cold, as his envoy described what he called new momentum in talks since Geneva.
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) A federal grand jury in upstate New York has indicted a 22-year-old suspect for allegedly running a human smuggling operation that brought migrants from Canada into the United States across the northern border, US authorities said.
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on declared a national emergency over what he described as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” posed by the Government of Cuba, ordering the creation of a new tariff system that could penalise countries supplying oil to the island.
Dhaka, Jan 29 (IANS) Human rights body Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnes Callamard, has written to the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s interim government, Muhammad Yunus, expressing concerns over the Bangladeshi authorities’ continued misuse of anti-terror legislation against journalists, and their failure to safeguard the rights to life, personal security, and freedom of expression and association.
Islamabad, Jan 29 (IANS) Pakistan’s education system falters at the transition from primary to secondary education, where a girl completing Grade 5 encounters “an invisible wall”. With distant middle schools, unsafe transport, male-dominated teaching staff and hesitant families, girls are left behind after primary school, while the state failed to act, a report said on Thursday.
Dhaka, Jan 29 (IANS) As campaigning for Bangladesh’s February 12 election got underway, certain political parties are openly claiming that voting against them would be equivalent to voting against Islam — a common pattern used to brand opponents as “anti-religion,” when political legitimacy is questioned, a report said on Thursday.
Dhaka, Jan 29 (IANS) Under Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus — globally recognised for pioneering microfinance for advancing women’s empowerment — the political representation of women in the country has not been institutionally safeguarded, a report said on Thursday.
Islamabad, Dec 29 (IANS) The political situation in both Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) continues to be marked by a crisis of legitimacy. In PoK, traditional political structures are struggling to address public grievances, worsening the legitimacy deficit, while PoGB faces constitutional ambiguity that restricts democratic consolidation and leaves core governance questions unresolved, a report stated on Thursday.
Dhaka, Jan 29 (IANS) Bangladesh must pursue calibrated and interest-based bilateralism to maintain a “dignified, equitable, and mutually beneficial” bilateral relationship with India and other South Asian neighbours, guided by the respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, and the principle of a “no-harm-to-each-other-or-to-a-third-party”, a report said on Thursday.
