DOT Desk: The sweeping cold wave coupled with blowing cooler winds continued disrupting public life for the seventh consecutive day in the northern region of the country, officials and local citizens said, reports The Financial Express. The situation deteriorated further following little falls in the minimum temperature at most places today causing unbearable sufferings to…
Marina Koren/The Atlantic China’s successful landing is part of the moon’s long geopolitical history. Humankind first laid eyes on the far side of the moon in 1968. “The backside looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time,” the astronaut Bill Anders told nasa mission control. For millennia, people…
Eurek Alert: Fungal infections are emerging as a major medical challenge, and a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has developed a mouse model to study the short-term consequences of fungal infection in the brain. The researchers report in the journal Nature Communications the unexpected finding that the common yeast Candida albicans,…
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…