The Guardian, UK: Only a third of the plastic in packaging pots and trays for food can be recycled, local authorities have said. Town hall chiefs urged manufacturers to scrap the “smorgasbord” of plastics used to package foods from fruit and vegetables to yoghurt, margarine and microwave meals to help cut waste and increase recycling….
Desk report: Police in central Switzerland say that a small plane has crashed in a forest, killing several people, reports the daily sun. Nidwalden canton (state) police said that the aircraft went down near the town of Hergiswil on Saturday morning. They said in a statement that authorities had to send up a helicopter to…
CNN: For the first time, Osama bin Laden’s mother, Alia Ghanem, has given an interview. Conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Martin Chulov of The Guardian, the interview is noteworthy because bin Laden, the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and his mother were exceptionally close. What Ghanem says in the interview is largely credible…
Hossen Sohel: Five buses were handed over to the authorities of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College in Dhaka yesterday, reports UNB. Farid Ahmed Bhuiyan, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation, handed over the buses on behalf of the Prime Minister to major general Ataul Karim Sarwar Hasan, Dhaka log area commander and chief patron of…
The Guardian, UK: Only a third of the plastic in packaging pots and trays for food can be recycled, local authorities have said. Town hall chiefs urged manufacturers to scrap the “smorgasbord” of plastics used to package foods from fruit and vegetables to yoghurt, margarine and microwave meals to help cut waste and increase recycling….
UNB: Giving priority to rail and waterways’ development can be an effective solution to arrest road accidents, said Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA), an environmental advocacy group, yesterday at a programme. POBA organised a discussion programme titled “Deaths and Anarchy on Road: Reasons and Solutions” at its main office in the city. Presiding over the programme,…
UNB: The government has given approval to implement 47 projects under Public Private Partnership (PPP) aimed at enhancing investment and employment generation. The combined value of these 47 projects comes to USD 12.6 billion. According to the sources, as per the decision of the board of governors of the PPP Authority, agreements have been signed…
Desk Report: Manush chhere khapa ray tui muul harabi..,’ and alike philosophical lines’ writer Baul saint Lalon Shah is the creator of many mystic, philosophical songs. In his memory, a sculpture ‘Ektara’, country’s largest of this kind has been opened in Harinakundu upazila of Jhenaidah, birth place of the Baul saint, reports The Observer. Shaon…
A.S.M Riad Arif, SARRC Silver Jubilee Scholar, South Asian University, New Delhi : The Rally of Death is crossing over the country. The series of road accident could not be stopped, and it took many lives. Day by day it is getting bigger because of the increasing number of population, total road length, reckless driving,…
Desk report: Many slum people have started living in brick-built house driving out their long-lasting living life in thatched or mud-house in the city, reports the Asian Age. “I had never thought, even in my dreams, that I would be able to live in such a good house,” said Rupchan Begum, 46, of Chhotobangram Namopara…