plan

No more plot housing scheme for Dhaka as gazette issued finalising DAP
Bangladesh

No more plot housing scheme for Dhaka as gazette issued finalising DAP

The new Detailed Area Plan aims to make Dhaka a better livable city by keeping different areas’ population density proportionate to civic amenities available there

Some parts of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover had been reconstructed (such as the road on the bottom left-hand side, pictured) because of its original faulty design compounded commuters' sufferings rather than easing it. Photo: Mumit M
Panorama

The Karnaphuli tunnel fiasco and the fault in our plans

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a session of the Shura Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 20, 2019. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS
Middle East

New Saudi airline plan takes aim at Emirates, Qatar Airways

NSA Ajit Doval said that there is a need to monitor new technologies used by terrorists.(HT Photo)
South Asia

As part of SCO framework: India proposes plan against Pak terror groups

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, second right, talks to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, left, Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, center, and Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa, right, during an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium, June 24, 2021. Olivier Matthys/Pool via REUTERS
Europe

France and Germany drop Russia summit plan after EU's east objects

Representational Image. Photo: Collected
USA

Biden’s electric vehicle plan includes battery recycling push

FILE PHOTO: A view of a COVID-19 testing station manned by British military personnel inside London's Hyde Park, Britain, May 8, 2020. REUTERS/ Alexander Smith
Coronavirus chronicle

UK ministers considering contingency plans for local lockdowns -the Times

FILE PHOTO: A person wearing a face mask walks through a mostly empty domestic terminal at Sydney Airport after surrounding states shut their borders to New South Wales in response to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney, Australia, December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
Coronavirus chronicle

Australia sticks by plan to re-open border in mid-2022

An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 13, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Kyodo/via REUTERS
World+Biz

Fukushima surfer, shop owner alarmed at water release plan, fears 'contaminated sea'

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock holds a news conference at 10 Downing Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool
Coronavirus chronicle

Britain on track to ease lockdown measures in line with plan: health minister

US President Joe Biden. Photo: Bloomberg
Coronavirus chronicle

Biden to press for $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan with governors, mayors

FILE PHOTO: Students are pictured during a Chinese class at Changchun Street Primary School of Wuhan during a government-organized media tour following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, September 4, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song
World+Biz

Chinese plan to boost 'masculinity' with PE classes sparks debate

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Education

Major overhaul in curriculum planned to improve education quality