CNN: Western monarch butterflies are gorgeous and majestic. And they might be gone for good in a few decades. That’s what nature lovers are fearing after a conservation group reports the population of Western monarch butterflies has plunged by 86% since late 2017 in coastal areas of California. The dire number comes from counts of…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh has failed to take advantage of China’s removal of tariffs on 28 categories of imported drugs including all cancer medicines, although the country is doing well in terms of exports of pharmaceutical products, reports The Financial Express BD. Industry insiders said it is not an easy task to export pharmaceutical products to…
DOT Desk: A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday sent a legal notice to the authorities concerned to cancel or withdraw the oath-taking of lawmakers elected in 11th national parliamentary election, saying that the oath-taking was a violation of the constitution, reports The Daily Star. Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon served the legal notice on behalf of…
Vir Sanghvi/ Hindustan Times While nobody thinks Narendra Modi will get over 270 seats, it is not certain that the BJP will fall to 170 either. There is one thing about the chattering classes and the commentariat that you can be sure about. Any political view they adopt is so lovingly embraced by all their…
UNB: Two minor girls were killed as a portion of an under-construction wall collapsed on them on Monday evening at Gongabar Kandi village in Sadar upazila. The deceased were identified as Liza, 3, daughter of Emarul Haque and Mariam, 3, daughter of late Moshiur Rahman. Ratan Sheikh, officer-in-charge of Islami University Police Station, said that…
Science Alert: We’re not wired to feel safe all the time, but maybe one day we could be. A 2018 study investigating the neurological basis of anxiety in the brain has identified ‘anxiety cells’ located in the hippocampus – which not only regulate anxious behaviour but can be controlled by a beam of light. The…
UNB: Alor Feriwala’, an initiative taken by Palli Bidyut Samiti to supply electricity to any residences within five minutes, was inaugurated at its Cumilla office in Uttar Rampur on Tuesday. Engineer Md Ataur Rahman, caretaker of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board of Cumilla region, Md Jahangir Alam, general manager of Cumilla Palli Bidyut Samiti-2, executive Engineer…
UNB: A retired airman of Bangladesh Air Force was beaten to death allegedly by the members of his brother-in-law’s family at Jugipasha village in Fultola upazila on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Gazi Shafiqul Islam, 54, son of Abdul Barek, resident of Uttardighi village in the upazila. Monirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Fultola Police…
DOT Desk: Export of soya bean oil and palm oil from Bangladesh to India has remained almost stalled since September last year, after bullish three months, as India has tightened the duty-free import of the products from Bangladesh, reports New Age BD. Exporters said that Bangladesh was supposed to get duty-free benefits for export of…
Science Alert: What makes a species monogamous? New research has uncovered evidence of a universal genetic code that underlies monogamy in vertebrates. For hundreds of millions of years, animals have been ‘doing it’. But not all of these wild hook-ups represented the same thing – even to animals that look incredibly similar. Some species, like…