Kabir Humayun: Mild to moderate heat wave, which is sweeping over Rangpur, Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions and a part of Tangail, may continue at places for a couple of days. Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Khulna, Barishal, Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet,…
BBC: Contamination of salad vegetables by E.coli and Salmonella bacteria are the most common causes of food poisoning. Although most Salmonella outbreaks are linked to contamination during handling and transportation of the vegetables, there are also cases where the infectious bacterium had entered the plant when it was still in the farmland. How does it…
Desk Report Police arrested a Jamaat-e-Islami leader along with 10 crude bombs from Khorki village of Madhobpur upazila and recovered eight molotov bombs from Baniachong upazila early Saturday. The arrestee is Nazrul Islam, ameer of Jamaat Madhobpur upazila unit. On information about a secret meeting, police conducted a drive at the village and arrested Nazrul…
Elizabeth Nelson/ The Guardian, UK A proxy voting system would have saved the heavily pregnant Labour MP the trip – it’s clear why the Tory party doesn’t want one. Obscure parliamentary procedures are currently all the rage, from John Bercow’s controversial deviation from precedence in selecting amendments to business motions and the arcane voting procedure…
NDTV: As Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets ready to testify before the US Congress on September 5, reports have surfaced that he is personally weighing in on high-profile decisions to ban controversial accounts, frustrating some employees. According to a report in Wall Street Journal on Monday, Mr Dorsey overruled a decision by his staff to…
Phys.Org: Twitter chief Jack Dorsey defended Tuesday his company’s decision to allow far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to use the platform to spread his message, saying he hasn’t broken user rules. Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube have all banned Jones, who runs the website Infowars.In a series of tweets on the subject, Dorsey said Twitter…
Anadolu Agency Apart from having the world’s largest mortality rate of under-fives, a UNICEF nutrition expert said Nigeria now has at least 35 million severely malnourished children. UNICEF nutrition experts say the crisis is most prevalent in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe — the three states in the country’s northeast worst hit by the Boko Haram…
Sky news: The Australian city of Canberra has been overtaken by thousands of hungry kangaroos, who are raiding any patch of green grass they can find. Scores have been spotted by residents dealing with the sudden influx of the “mob” – the term for a large group of kangaroos. The capital city has more than…
BSS A court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to suffer life imprisonment for killing his wife at Atpara village under Nagarpur upazila of the district in 2013. The court also fined him Taka 10,000 each, in default to suffer more three months of rigorous imprisonment. Judge of Children and Women Repression and Prevention Tribunal…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque thanked House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Congressman Eliot Engel for his initiatives to adopt resolutions condemning the atrocities on the Rohingyas, reports UNB. When they met at the Hill on Thursday, Shahidul also thanked Engel for putting greater pressure on Myanmar so that the latter…