AFP: Crouching near a wooden shed in his snowy backyard, Prokopy Nogovitsyn lifts up a grey tarpaulin and takes out a vertebra the size of a saucer: part of a mammoth skeleton. “Some friends found this in the north and wanted to sell it,” says Nogovitsyn, who lives in a village in the northern Siberian…
CNN: It was the deal of the century for eagle-eyed, fast-swooping airline passengers. Flying business or first class from Vietnam to North American cities on Cathay Pacific would normally set you back tens of thousands of dollars. Normally. But the Hong Kong-based airline made a blunder this week as the new year rolled in —…
Reuters: A 46-year-old woman has entered the Sabarimala temple in south India, becoming the third woman this week to breach an ancient ban on females of menstruating age from going inside, according to the office of the chief minister of Kerala state. It was not immediately clear how the woman, a Sri Lankan national, got…
DOT Desk: A good number of potters in the district have attained financial solvency in recent days, reports the Financial Express. They make pots of different shapes and sizes according to the market demand. Akkelpur, Kalai and Sadar upazilas of the district are well-known across the country for pottery. Some 3,000 people of the three…
DOT Desk: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyers may move her pending pleas before the Supreme Court next week challenging her convictions in two separate corruption cases, reports The Daily Star. Zia, a former prime minister, could not take part in the general election, as she was not allowed to contest for her convictions and…
DOT Desk: Prices of rice and vegetables were seen to have a significant fall in Narsingdi district due to adequate supply of Aman rice and huge arrival of winter vegetables in the local markets, reports The Financial Express. Sources concerned said a bumper production of Aman rice during the current season induced the price fall…
DOT Desk: The prices of ginger, one of the main cooking ingredients, witnessed a big rise at city markets last week, augmenting woes of the consumers further, reports The Financial Express. The prices of onion also considerably increased last week. Local ginger was sold at Tk 110-120 per kilogramme (kg) while imported Chinese ginger at…
Laura Tyson/Project Syndicate While media coverage since the 2018 US midterm elections has focused squarely on Donald Trump, a growing movement of citizens and activists from across the political spectrum is thinking more broadly about the future of American democracy. And progressive political reforms have been winning support in some unexpected places. In last November’s…
DOT Desk: An Indian private firm is set to make an initial investment of $10 million in one of the country’s economic zones to set up a factory to manufacture liquid ink, reports The financial Express. To this end, Sakata Inx (Bangladesh) Private Limited, a subsidiary of Sakata Inx (India) Private Limited, signed the land…
Banglanews24: Popular retail shop Daily Shopping has opened another outlet in city’s Uttara for selling grocery items at an affordable cost. With this, Daily Shopping has a chain of five outlets in Uttara. Recently, Eleash Mridha, Managing Director of PRAN Group, inaugurated the outlet located at sector-4 of Uttara. Galib Farrokh Bakht, Assistant General Manager…