The Science Alert: Potatoes are apparently far from being flavour of the month. Rejected by young people and “clean eaters”, sales are plummeting. But what has the potato done to deserve being treated so distastefully? Reports claim that millennials prefer rice and noodles, and think that potatoes will make them fat. According to The Grocer…
Desk Report: People with their digital weighing machines sitting along the sidewalks and at busy intersections of Dhaka city have become a common sight, reports Prothom Alo. It has also become very common for all sorts of people, young and old, to stop and take their weight on these scales. Why do the people take their…
NDTV: An Indonesian civil servant who owed his ex-wife a large alimony has paid back some $10,000 worth of missed payments in coins. Dwi Susilarto arrived at court on Thursday hauling a dozen sacks filled with 153 million rupiah ($10,500) in small change, a hefty payment that weighed in at about 890 kilograms (1,960 pounds),…
The Hindustan Times: A 13-year-old student, who is also an entrepreneur, has been busy collecting and dispatching relief material to the flood-hit state of Kerala. Tilak Mehta, who runs a venture called ‘Papers and Parcels’ has so far shipped 1,000 kg of rice and 500 first-aid kits to the flood-hit region with help from Mumbai’s…
Science Alert: Of all the things that threaten to kill or disable us, alcohol takes a disturbingly high spot on the list – according to global estimates based on people’s state of health and levels of alcohol consumed. If fact, for people aged between 15 and 49, alcohol is the leading cause of harm worldwide….
Science Alert: NASA’s Worldview program has some bad news. The Earth is on fire. The red points in the picture above are areas around the world with fires actively burning, accurate as of Thursday. It doesn’t look great. The Worldview website lets you look at current events happening across the planet. One of those events…
Desk Report: The industrial production marked a sharp increase in the first nine months of the last fiscal year (FY) compared to the same period of the previous fiscal, reports Financial Express. The industrial output surged due to the rise in credit disbursement in the sector and improvement in the country’s power supply situation. Based on…
UNB: Raja Babu, the biggest bull of the country, was slaughtered on the 2nd day (Thursday) of Eid-ul-Adha at Soidergaon village in Chhatok upazila of Sunamganj district. Country’s famous businessman Syed Munsif Ali, founding chairman of Golden Life Insurance Limited, bought the bull from Gabtoli Cattle Market on Tuesday night for Tk 18.50 lakh, said…
Laura Kipnis/The Guardian, UK Cases such as that of the activist film star and the young actor Jimmy Bennett may be about so much more than sex Big news this week on the sexual transgression front. Two well-known women – one a film star and #MeToo luminary, Asia Argento; the other an academic star, New…
John Lloyd/Reuters It’s not the week to say it, but Donald Trump has a point. It isn’t original and what it proposes will be hard to do, yet when he says that “getting along with Russia is a good thing,” as he did before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last month,…