M Humayun Kabir Mobile Number Portability (MNP) services have been launched commercially for the first time in Bangladesh since yesterday morning on a trial service. The MNP services allow mobile phone numbers to remain unchanged even after changing operators, reports bdnews24.com Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Acting Chairman Md Jahurul Haque made the announcement of…
Desk Report: New DoE report also finds 25-30% of all the industry’s fuelwood is used by these kilns. A staggering 134,010 maunds of fuelwood is burned every year in the tobacco kilns of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)—to process tobacco leaves. This poses a serious threat to the environment. The shocking information has been revealed…
Desk Report Farmers in the district are passing their days in deep frustrations due to widespread attack of stem borer, locally known as majrapoka, on their Aman croplands. The farmers said they have been spraying pesticides since the beginning of the pest attack around two weeks back, but it is not working. Frustrations have gripped…
The Guardian:Researchers are asking people who have suffered from depression and anxiety to provide DNA samples so they can look for common genes Genetic links to anxiety and depression are to be explored in the largest ever study into the issue, experts have announced. Researchers are calling on people in England to sign up to…
Ali Abdulla Mohamed Al Ahmed, UAE Ambassador to Germany/Gulf News Tehran has squandered its resources and failed its own people, leading to a situation where there is not much hope for the beleaguered nation. And if it offers a forlorn future to its own people, no one should expect that it may give happiness to…
Desk Report This has been decided to accomodate growing tourism at the UNESCO World Heritage Site To tackle the growing number of eco-tourists in the Sundarbans, four new tourist zones are being built in the world’s largest coastal mangrove forest. The number of local and foreign tourists has been on the rise ever since the…
M Humayun Kabir The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a new ‘Access to Information Policy’ with a view to maintaining ADB’s high standards of transparency. The policy will come into effect on January 1, 2019 and it will replace the current Public Communications Policy (PCP), reports Asian Age. Bambang Susantono, ADB…
BBC Conservative MPs including Boris Johnson have had their phone numbers and other personal details revealed by the party’s conference app. A Guardian columnist highlighted the security breach on Twitter and the BBC was also able to access private details of people attending the event. The Conservative Party apologised for “any concern caused” and said…
Hossen Sohel Canada and the US reached a deadline deal on a new free trade pact that will include Mexico, the governments announced late Sunday, after more than a year of talks to revamp a pact President Donald Trump had labeled a disaster, reports AFP. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) updates and replaces the nearly…
BBC It is likely to be the most critical and controversial report on climate change in recent years. Leading scientists are meeting in South Korea this week to see if global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5C this century. The world has already passed one degree of warming as carbon emissions…