Desk report: Thousands of houses on the river bank in two upazilas got flooded in the morning Floodwaters caused by heavy rain over last few days have inundated much of the low lying areas of Bogra and Gaibandha districts, reports The Dhaka tribune. According to reports of our Bogra correspondent several areas of Sariakandi and…
Al Jazeera: Iran has accused Twitter of closing accounts of “real” Iranians, while allowing anti-government “bots” backed by the United States, to continue. Facebook and Twitter collectively removed hundreds of accounts tied to an alleged Iranian propaganda operation last month. But in a tweet sent out on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif questioned Twitter’s…
BSS: The cabinet yesterday approved a proposed agreement with New Delhi enabling the neighbouring country to use Chattogram and Mongla ports for goods movement to and from India. “The weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at her office gave the approval,” Cabinet Secretary Md. Shafiul Alam told a media briefing…
Desk report: One hundred lemons cost Tk200-400. Lemon cultivation has become quite profitable in Jamalpur, reports The Dhaka tribune. Many farmers have been successfully cultivating lemons in almost infertile lands around the Brahmaputra river char in the district. Many have leaned towards lemon cultivation as it is profitable with a minimal capital investment. Moksed Mia…
Desk report: The country’s overall natural gas supply has reached around 3,205 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) riding on the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG), reports the financial express. This is the highest-ever gas supply in the history of Bangladesh. Local gas companies are producing around 1,072 mmcfd or 33 per cent and…
Asian correspondent: Wellness tourism, one the industry’s fastest growing sector with a 10 percent rise this year, promotes travel for one’s health through psychological, physical, or spiritual activities – or all three. In this super stressed modern world, wellness tourism is highly appealing as it encourages travellers to practice mindfulness and to “find their centre.”…
M Humayun Kabir: Experts at investment bank JPMorgan hinted that the next global financial crisis will begin in 2020. The recession in two years’ time will be less damaging than the 2008 crash, Analysts say, reports The Independent Online. It is predicted that US shares could drop by 20 per cent, well below the 54…
The Guardian: It is no longer fashionable to be anti-ageing: it has been rebadged as “pro-skin”, by the founder of American skincare brand Drunk Elephant and “anti-wrinkles” by Neutrogena. A new vocabulary of renewal, regeneration, plumpness and “glow” now dominates the language of the beauty industry, the ethos of body-positivity finally inching its way up…
Kabir Humayun: A parliamentary committee yesterday placed its report before the parliament on the much-talked about proposed Road Transport Act, 2018. Ekabbor Hossain, chief of the parliamentary body, placed the report before the Jatiya Sangsad without any major changes in the bill, reports The Daily Star. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Road, Transport and Bridges…
Wired: Astronomers have finally found the last of the missing universe. It’s been hiding since the mid-1990s, when researchers decided to inventory all the “ordinary” matter in the cosmos—stars and planets and gas, anything made out of atomic parts. (This isn’t “dark matter,” which remains a wholly separate enigma.) They had a pretty good idea…