DOT Desk: People of the city are facing drinking water crisis as the underground water level here is gradually decreasing, reports The Daily Observer. Many deep tube-wells in the city are damaged. As a result, the crisis of pure drinking water in the city has become acute. Source said, to set up a tube-well in…
DOT Desk: Hundreds of children have been affected by the illness, reports The Independent. A diarrhea epidemic has become widespread in the Shailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah district. At least 200 children, from different regions of the upazila, have received treatment for diarrhea, in the Shailkupa Hospital, over the last 32 days. According to hospital sources,…
Bryce Edwards/NZherald.co.nz A huge impact on the year in politics Although no one dubbed Ross the “politician of the year”, he was certainly acknowledged as the top newsmaker of the year, for plunging New Zealand politics – or at least the National Party – into chaos and bewilderment. Newshub political editor Tova O’Brien named Ross…
Science Alert: On Dec. 22 at 9:03 pm local time, a 64-hectare (158-acre) chunk of Anak Krakatau volcano, in Indonesia, slid into the ocean following an eruption. This landslide created a tsunami that struck coastal regions in Java and Sumatra, killing at least 426 people and injuring 7,202. Satellite data and helicopter footage taken on…
UNB: Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, has long been witnessing an abnormal shift in its traditional six seasons due to changes in temperature, wind-flow and rainfall patterns, threatening the country’s future food security, according to local environment and weather experts. They also said frequent natural disasters like flashfloods, cyclones,…
DOT Desk: The number of prisoners as of January 4, 2019 stood at 98,480, according to the Prisons Directorate under the Ministry of Home Affairs, reports The Financial Express. Of the prisoners, 16,124 are convicts and the rest 82,356 are facing trial. The number of female inmates is only 3,207. There are 68 jails all…
AFP: An Australian man rammed his four-wheel drive into a Sydney police car, hijacked a supermarket delivery truck and taxi, rammed other cars and stabbed and wounded a passerby before killing himself in front of police on Friday. The dramatic chain of events, which police said was not terror-related, began when police tried to…
DOT Desk: With the national election over, people involved in the tourism sector have heaved a big sigh of relief. This is, after all, the peak season for tourists willing to explore the natural beauty of the country, reports The Independent. Shiblul Azam Quereshi, director of the Tour Operators’ Association of Bangladesh (TOAB), said that…
CNN: Apple’s problems in China are piling pressure on the company to find a way to grow in India, the world’s hottest market for smartphones. But with the latest iPhones costing more than half the average annual wage, Apple (AAPL) faces an uphill battle to take a much bigger share of India’s market than its…
Tech Explorist: In a new study by Durham University, astrophysicists suggest that our solar system could get blasted into space after a newly-predicted collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy. The study also predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years’ time. The catastrophic coming together with the…