DOT Desk The construction of six footbridges, including three with lifts, in Dhaka South City Corporation area has got into uncertainty though the construction works were scheduled to begin by November this year, reports The New Age. Corporation officials said three footbridges with lift facility to ease movement of senior citizens and physically challenged people…
The Guardian, UK: Microplastic can escape from polluted waters via flying insects, new research has revealed, contaminating new environments and threatening birds and other creatures that eat the insects. Scientists fed microplastics to mosquito larvae, which live in water, but found that the particles remained inside the animals as they transformed into flying adults. Other…
Sheersho Zaman It is no new fact that North and South Korea’s separation has lead them to be very different from each other. While one prospers in pop culture and glamour, the other remains in its military oriented and technologically isolated state. The one thing the separated nations have in common though is the language…
Desk Report: Mindless of the risk of fatal accidents, pedestrians often cross busy roads in the capital without using footbridges and zebra crossings, not giving a damn about traffic rules, reports Daily Sun. Though jaywalking is one of the main reasons for road fatalities in the city, pedestrians are reluctant to use footbridges and zebra…
BBC: One of the UK’s leading female astro-nomers is to donate her £2.3m winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers. Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize for the discovery of radio pulsars.This…
Reuters: Top executives from Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc will defend their companies in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday over what lawmakers see as a failure to combat continuing foreign efforts to influence U.S. politics. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who will testify alongside Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, will acknowledge to the Senate…
Reuters The U.S.-China trade war has triggered a seafood supply chain shake-up, with U.S. importers scrambling to stockpile frozen Chinese squid and tilapia ahead of looming price increases while Canada exports more lobsters to China. A series of retaliatory tariffs between Beijing and Washington has led to a shift in global trade, creating winners and…
New Atlas: The diverse microbes that live in our gut keep turning up new surprises. In recent years this tiny ecosystem has been found to influence our health in some pretty profound ways, and different species have been implicated in all kinds of diseases throughout the body. But now researchers at UC Berkeley have found…
Hosen Sohel of DOT Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government has a plan to constitute a commission to find out who were behind the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15, 1975, reports The Daily Star. The minister however refused to disclose the timeframe of forming of…