Desk Report: More than 10,000 new private passenger cars were pressed into service in Dhaka in the first seven months of the current year, reports The Financial Express. Statistics available with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) showed that number of newly registered private car stood at 10,160 in Dhaka during January-July period of this year….
Bex Bailey/The Guardian, UK I am 26. At the current rate of progress, I will be retired – or worse – before women in the UK are paid as much as men. The gender pay gap starts the moment women enter the workplace and continues – often getting wider with age – until they move…
Chris Patten/Project Syndicate Authoritarian leaders worldwide are confronting mounting crises of their own making. But while Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin face slower-brewing challenges, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Donald Trump seem to be bringing matters in their respective countries to a head. Shares in strongman leaders seem…
Desk Report: Work of the 150-meter bridge over river Feni connecting India and Bangladesh will start after September, reports www.sentinelassam.com. Disclosing this to The Sentinel, Satyabrata Sahu, Director, (Administration and Finance), National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) of India has said that as of now, the work has been stopped due to rains, but…
Bdnews24: North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel had promised to buy a large cow for Eid-ul-Azha to celebrate the homecoming of his expatriate father and brother for the festivities. But on Eid day the family’s house held only grief. It has been a month since Payel was brutally killed after taking a bus from…
The Guardian: For certain health food shops and wellbeing sites it is the panacea that helps everything from bad hair and mental grogginess to obesity and haemorrhoids. But the carefully-crafted image of coconut oil as a cure for many ills has been roundly rejected by a Harvard professor. Karin Michels, an epidemiologist at the Harvard…
Desk Report: Pollution from the Tannery Industrial Park, still under construction at Savar, would increase after Eid-ul-Azha, reports The New Age. A half of annual rawhide collection for processing takes place during the festival of sacrifice. Green activists told New Age that pollution from the tannery park would increase manifold after the festival as the…
PBS News: A new ancient DNA study published in Nature Wednesday reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species. The studied remains belonged to a girl who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) lived throughout Europe and Western Asia until around 30,000 years ago. This…
Desk Report: With the general banking hours ending yesterday ahead of the 5-day Eid vacation, commercial banks are witnessing huge rush of clients withdrawing cash to meet Eid-ul-Azha expenses, reports The Asian Age Over the last two working days, the banks in the metropolis have been packed with clients, especially for withdrawal of remittances. “Expatriates…
Paul Reilly and Ioanna Tantanasi/WION News Social media was recently credited with reducing the number of casualties caused by air strikes in the Syrian civil war. The early warning system, developed by tech startup Hala Systems, uses remote sensors to detect aircraft flying over the opposition-held northern province of Idlib. Alerts are then sent via…