BSS: The Department of Agriculture Extension is completing distribution of special agriculture incentives worth Taka 12.15 crore among 90,440 small and marginal farmers of Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the DAE said the incentives, in terms of seed and fertilisers, are being distributed among the beneficiary farmers to assist them in cultivating eight varieties of…
Eurek Alert: Much like our fight-or-flight response, our cells also have a stress autopilot mode. An oxygen dropoff, overheating, or an invading toxin can trigger the cellular stress response – a cascade of molecular changes that are the cell’s last-ditch effort to survive. Among these survival strategies is the formation of “stress granules” – proteins…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT At least 1,441 incidents of violence against women and children occurred in the country last year, Zinat Ara Haque, executive coordinator of We Can Bangladesh, has said. Of them, 996 were women and the rest were children, with around half the incidents taking place in Dhaka division, reports The Daily Star….
Tanya Sirohi/ India Times How many times have you felt you’re being followed on the street? How many times have you then reached for the pepper spray in your bag or gripped your keys between your knuckles wondering if it’ll even work when it has to? Now imagine the person who stalked you, wrote to…
Tech Explorist: Although bones are very hard organs, they also have a dense network of blood vessels inside them where the bone marrow is located as well as on the outside that is covered by the periosteum. This is why bone fractures often cause serious bleeding. A young scientist- Dr. Anika Grüneboom at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen…
INC: It’s no surprise that many parents today are deeply worried about what screen time is doing to their kids. A series of studies, many of them led by San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge, has claimed that staring at screens has led to alarming levels of anxiety, depression, and general misery among…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s development innovation- ‘the SDG-Tracker’ and championing women empowerment, reports UNB. “The Commonwealth under its Innovation Hub has placed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s social innovation initiative of designing and creating ‘the SDG-Tracker’ for as a best practice for realising Agenda 2030,”Patricia said….
Hossen Sohel of DOT The families of the workers killed after a coal-bearing truck overturned in Cumilla’s Chauddagram will receive Tk 100,000 each in compensation, reports bdnews24.com. The medical bills of the workers injured in the accident will also be paid in full. State Minister for Labour and Employment Monnujan Sufian made the announcement at a…
UNB: Bangladesh will import around 1.42 million metric tonnes of petroleum fuel through government-to-government (G-to-G) initiative from eight state-owned companies of different countries from January to June this year. According to official sources at the Energy and Mineral Resources Division under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR), the government will require to…
Hossen Sohel of DOT: All sorts of necessary preparations have been taken to hold the suspended parliamentary polls to Gaibandha-3 constituency due to death of one contestant tomorrow in a free, fair and peaceful manner, reports BSS. The voting will start at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break as a…