BSS: Health experts underscored the need for making the National Vitamin A plus Campaign (second round-2018) scheduled to be observed on January 19 a total success. Vitamin-A is crucial to preventing childhood blindness and reducing child mortality. During the keynote presentation Dr Abu Kawsar Soman, gave an overview of the meeting and aspects of vitamin-A…
DOT Desk: The government will initiate a new bidding round soon for offshore and onshore oil and gas blocks in the Bay of Bengal, officials said, reports The Daily Star. “We wanted to invite the bid at the end of 2018, but the process was delayed due to the national election. We are hopeful of…
John Gapper/ Financial Times Setback marks end of golden age when speed of innovation provided obsolescence As Joni Mitchell sang in “Big Yellow Taxi”: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Apple knows it now, from the abrupt fall in its share price last week as it…
NDTV: The Ayodhya case in the Supreme Court was adjourned again today after the exit of one of the five judges in the constitution bench. Justice UU Lalit recused himself saying he had been a lawyer in a related case. The Supreme Court will take up the temple-mosque case on January 29.The bench led by…
Taylor Lorenz, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers technology/Channel NewsAsia #dropboxlinks has gone viral after hundreds of users posted memes about the tag’s concerning material. A hashtag war has been brewing on Instagram between users who appear to be trading child pornography and the memers intent on stopping them. A network of users…
AFP: In Vietnam’s “incense village”, dozens are hard at work dying, drying and whittling down bamboo bark to make the fragrant sticks ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday. It is the most frantic time of year for workers in the cottage industry in Quang Phu Cau village on the outskirts of Hanoi, where…
UNB: The Power Division is now waiting for a positive note from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) about its financing to implement a 50MW floating solar project in the Kaptai Lake, official sources said. “We’ve heard the executive board of the donor agency [ADB] has approved a financing proposal in this regard. But, the government…
NDTV: Facebook users aged 65 plus and conservatives are more likely to share fake news on the platform than younger or more liberal counterparts, according to a new study published Wednesday. Researchers from Princeton University and New York University analyzed the Facebook posts of nearly 1,200 people who agreed to share their data in the…
DOT Desk: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has demanded the withdrawal of the politically driven cases against Jhenaidah 4 BNP candidate and his unconditional release from jail, reports The Dhaka Triibune. He stated this is a statement posted on BNP’s official social media site Facebook page on Thursday. The senior BNP leader has…
Tech Explorist: A team of researchers has unraveled the imprints of the sea level fluctuations and climate change that may have occurred along the coastal river of Saurashtra region in India’s west coast over the past 1.5 lakh years. Researchers analyzed samples taken from more than six meters sedimentary sequences along the Noli River between…