BSS: Speakers at a participatory discussion in Rajshahi called for ensuring safe poultry farming to get hygienic and good quality of meat for protecting the public health from various chronic diseases like cancer, heart ailment and hepatitis. They mentioned that manufacturing and marketing of safe poultry feed is the precondition for good poultry farming, adding…
UNB: The parliamentary committee on Environment, Forests and Climate affairs recommended to impose control on importing raw materials for producing polythene products. The committee also suggested conducting mobile court by the Deputy Commissioner and Upazila Nirbahi Officer in order to stop the use of the banned polythene-made products.
Desk Report: The commercial cattle farmers in the district are worried due to price fall of the animals in the local markets, especially in view of the high cost of fodder and huge labour spent for them, reports Daily Star. Aynal Miah, 46, a cattle farmer at Khorarpul village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, said he…
Desk Report: In Bagerhat, prosperity grows in leafy bursts of resplendent green. Betel vines have performed to their utmost this year; enough to please even the most hardened farmer, reports Daily Star. “Last year we suffered a lot from excessive rain and water logging,” says Rahaman Seikh, a betel grower from Karapara in Sadar upazila….
Ban on fishing in Kaptai ends Desk Report: Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) has lifted the ban on fishing in Kaptai Lake, starting from midnight yesterday. The district administration had banned fishing from May 1. A letter issued by BFDC last week instructed the district officials of BFDC and local administration to allow fishing in…
UNB: A UK couple who tricked their teenage daughter into travelling to Bangladesh in an attempt to force her to marry her first cousin have been jailed. The husband and wife, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found guilty in May of using violence, threats or coercion to force their daughter into marriage,…
Banglanews24: A specially equipped Norwegian vessel has arrived in Chattogram to carry out an acoustic survey in the maritime boundary of Bangladesh. The United Nations flag carrier marine research vessel, RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen, headed by the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR) arrived at Chattogram Silo Jetty around 12:00 pm Tuesday (July 31). The…
UNB: Speakers at a workshop laid emphasis on working more closely with the private sector to put an end to modern day slavery in international supply chains. They said modern day slavery remains a major challenge for businesses around the world and across multiple sectors. The latest global estimates around 40.3 million people were victims…
Joschka Fischer/Project Syndicate As if there was any remaining doubt, the past few weeks have shown that US President Donald Trump is fully committed to demolishing the American-led post-war order and free-trade system. Europeans no longer have any time to waste: The EU must assert itself as a unitary, self-sufficient global power before it is…
Clarence Page/Chicago Tribune This has been a summer of discontent in stand-up comedy circles, despite the abundance of laughable material that President Donald Trump’s White House continues to provide. You could hear that discontent in June in Jon Stewart’s onstage interview at San Francisco’s annual Clusterfest. After amusing the crowd with talk of the “yearning…