Wionews: A two-week jungle trek followed by a sheer climb up avalanche-prone slopes to a jagged ridge of icy pinnacles awaits three Myanmar mountaineers planning to take on Hkakabo Razi, a peak so treacherous it has been conquered only once. Believed to be the highest in Southeast Asia, the mountain stands at an estimated 5,881…
AP: Romanian and German archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fortress dating back as far as 3,400 years in western Romania. Archaeologist Florin Gogaltan told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the find represented “one of the biggest prehistoric fortresses in Europe in the Bronze Age.” Gogaltan, a researcher at the Archaeology Institute in Cluj northwestern…
Hossen Sohel: A vigilance team comprising of transport owners and workers yesterday began checking vehicles at Dhaka’s Manik Mia Avenue where Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) also conducted drives simultaneously. The representatives of the transport owners and workers started the drives against unfit vehicles, said Khandaker Enayet Ullah, general secretary of Dhaka Road Transport Owners’…
Arafat Hasan: India has suggested names of three of its top directors — Shyam Benegal, Goutam Ghosh and Kauskhik Ganguly — to Bangladesh for jointly making a feature film on the life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to mark his birth centenary in 2020 as well as a documentary on the Liberation War…
Desk Report: Stocks ret-urned to the green on Tuesday after a single-day break as pre-Eid sale pressure eased some extent, reports Financial Express. Market insiders said last minutes strong buying spree on sector-wise large-cap stocks helped the market ended higher. Trading on the bourses will remained closed today (Wednesday) due to National Mourning Day.
NTV Online: Social media giant Facebook has bagged the media rights of Spain’s top-division football championship, La Liga, for the Indian subcontinent, both parties have confirmed the path-breaking deal. With this mega deal, La Liga will be the first European football league to be broadcast exclusively live on Facebook in the Indian subcontinent. La Liga…
BBC: The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050, say researchers. Is it too late? It sits on swampy land, the Java Sea lapping against it,…
Science Daily: Researchers have produced the most comprehensive family tree and atlas of mammals to date, connecting all living and recently extinct mammal species (nearly 6,000 in total) and overturning many previous ideas about global patterns of biodiversity. The atlas shows where species occur today as well as where they would occur, if they had…
WION: Months after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave us a happy picture of a royal wedding, another person from Britain’s royal family is ready to walk down the aisle — Princess Eugenie with longtime boyfriend Jack Brooksbank. Princess Eugenie got engaged recently and announced the date of her wedding as October 12 but what’s…
Science Alert: The ability to reverse ageing is something many people would hope to see in their lifetime. This is still a long way from reality, but in our latest experiment, we have reversed the ageing of human cells, which could provide the basis for future anti-degeneration drugs. Ageing can be viewed as the progressive…