ScienceDaily: On Monday, a New Zealand family were just walking along a Northern Auckland beach when they stumbled across a bizarre, pink-colour blob that resembled a volcano shape. The creature, which turned out to be a species of huge jellyfish, has a white segmented outer body, with a colourful red inside, and looks just a…
MEMO: Israel approved plans to construct 220 illegal settlement units in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Al-Mukabbir, a settlement activist has revealed day before yesterday. Aryeh King, a right-wing candidate running for the Jerusalem Municipality, said the Israeli Civil Administration had approved the plans. The units would serve as part of the expansion…
Desk Report: Experts at a dialogue have laid emphasis on transparency, accountability and government mechanism to help ensure best use of climate change resilience fund, reports The Financial Express. They also called for ensuring data openness of various programmes under such fund, providing strong monitoring and evaluation system and forming a multi-stakeholder forum in this…
Money control: Friends of a man who got married here presented him with five litres of petrol, the price of which has skyrocketed, as a ‘wedding gift.’ The young man and his newly wedded wife were greeting guests at a marriage hall when his friends trooped in and gave him the petrol in a five…
Hindustan Times: A 50-year-old woman, allegedly held captive on the terrace of her brother’s house in northwest Delhi’s Rohini for the past two years, was rescued on Tuesday in a very poor condition. The woman, who was lying in her own excreta and was allegedly tortured, was found almost reduced to bones by a team…
UNB: The overall flood situation in the district is yet to be improved although the water of all the rivers has started to recede from Tuesday. Despite the overall flood situation improving slightly in different upazilas of the district, the miseries of locals continue as crops of around 7,900 hectares of land have been damaged….
Desk report: Police recovered the bodies of two students from BSCIC Industrial area in Nazira village of Sadar upazila in Kurigram on Wednesday, reports UNB reports. The deceased were identified as Selina Akter, 12, a class VIII student of Amin Uddin Dakhil Madrasa and daughter of Jabed Ali of Dakuapara village and Jahangir Alam, 14,…
NDTV: Pakistani troops have slit the throat of a BSF jawan along the international border or IB near Jammu, an incident that may further escalate the tension between the two countries. The brutal and “unprecedented” incident which took place in the Ramgarh sector on day before yesterday, has prompted the security forces to issue a…
Lab News: A team from the US have discovered that the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, develops similar nerve damage to human patients in a new model of a peripheral nervous system disease. Studying transthyretin amyloidoses – a group of progressive nerve and cardiac degenerative diseases caused by the buildup of misfolded transthyretin (TTR) proteins in the…
New Atlas: The diverse microbes that live in our gut keep turning up new surprises. In recent years this tiny ecosystem has been found to influence our health in some pretty profound ways, and different species have been implicated in all kinds of diseases throughout the body. But now researchers at UC Berkeley have found…