Elisabeth Lopez, University of Melbourne/ Pursuit Security forces and health workers make for prickly, sometimes deadly bedfellows, but investing in partnerships could reap dividends in disease control When Red Cross midwives in Nigeria are killed by militants or hospitals in Syria are deliberately bombed, it might seem perverse, if not downright naïve, to call on…
VOA: Queen Elizabeth II’s 97-year-old husband was recovering Friday at the royal Sandringham estate after the Land Rover he was driving rolled on a nearby highway in a collision with another vehicle. Witness Roy Warne told the BBC he was driving home from work when the accident involving Prince Philip’s black Land Rover and a…
AP: US singer Chris Brown and two other people were released Tuesday from police custody after a woman filed a rape complaint against them, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The Grammy-winning singer was detained Monday with two other suspects on potential charges of aggravated rape and drug infractions. The Paris prosecutor’s office told The Associated…
Tech Explorist: Molding metals into miniscule shape is a challenging task especially when it comes to metals in their solid state. However, the moldability of the metal depends on its flowability under certain conditions. Flowability is high in thermoplastics, gels, and glasses, but most metals are too hard when solid and too fluid in their…
Isabel Choat/ The Guardian, UK Among shrines, rice fields and abandoned buildings, contemporary art has transformed 12 rural islands into a creative paradise – the setting for the 2019 Setouchi Triennale I’m sitting on a concrete floor watching water droplets as they skitter across the smooth surface. Around me, other people seem equally transfixed. They…
Tech Explorist: Observers of yesterday’s lunar eclipse were blessed with a bonus surprise- a meteorite impact. The alleged “super wolf blood moon” was anxiously viewed by a large number of people around the globe, for the most part through live spilling video. Amid the eclipse, a few people saw a tiny flash, a concise yellow-white…
DOT Desk: The city footpaths have as usual yielded to the whims of hawkers after a lull in some days when the street vendors cleared off due to the eviction drive by Dhaka South City Corporation, reports The Daily Sun. The city people that prefer walking on the footpaths to riding on a bus through…
DOT Desk: BINA China-4 peanut is turning fortune wheel of landless char people. BINA (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture) Magura sources informed, cultivation of BINA China-4 peanut is gaining popularity among char farmers, reports The Financial Express. Agriculturist Dr Abul Kalam Azad is the originator of BINA China-4 peanut. Char land is suitable for the…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Seven people have died in a road accident at Lakshmipur’s Ratanpur yesterday, reports bdnews24.com. The driver of an auto-rickshaw and six passengers, who belong to one family, were killed after a truck rammed into the three-wheeler around 5:00am on the Lakshmipur-Chandraganj Highway, police said. The family members were headed to Lakshmipur…
UNB: Despite owning some of the world’s largest reserves of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), the Middle Eastern nation of Iran stands out as unique in its region for having captured a place in people’s hearts in every corner of the globe through a purely creative pursuit – namely cinema. By the time Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A…