Desk Report Dengue infection has taken an alarming turn in the capital as thousands of people are contracting the mosquito-borne viral disease even though the rainy season, when the menace peaks, is over, reports New Age. Dengue has so far killed 15 people as of September this year, the highest in a year in the…
Sayeed Muhammad: The Awami League-led alliance will hold rallies in eight divisional cities in this month as part of mass contact ahead of the next general election and to resist the ‘conspiracies to foil’ the election. The decision was taken yesterday at a meeting of the alliance at Dhanmandi office of the Awami League President…
Abrar Hussain Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) yesterday filed two separate cases against 49 BNP men in connection with Thursday’s clash in front of party office over the graft case court verdict that handed BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia five years jail. Jashim Uddin, Officer in Charge of Kotwali thana, said that one of the cases…
UNB: The overall flood situation in the district is yet to be improved although the water of all the rivers has started to recede from Tuesday. Despite the overall flood situation improving slightly in different upazilas of the district, the miseries of locals continue as crops of around 7,900 hectares of land have been damaged….
BSS Agriculturists of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) are expecting a bumper production of winter vegetables in Rangpur agriculture region this season. “As cultivation of vegetables still continues, its early varieties have appeared in markets in plenty making the farmers happy with lucrative price,” said Horticulture Specialist of the DAE at its regional office…
Arafat Hasan: The United States government has charged and sanctioned a North Korean man for the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyberattack and the 2014 cyberassault on Sony Corp. The US government also alleged that the North Korean hacker broke into Bangladesh Bank in 2016, as per a criminal complaint. The charges are part of a…
ScienceDaily: For every one-degree-Celsius increase in temperature, mountaintop species shift upslope 100 metres, shrinking their inhabited area and resulting in dramatic population declines, new research by University of British Columbia zoologists has found. The study — the first broad review of its kind — analyzed shifts in elevation range in 975 populations of plants, insects…
Arab News : Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Monday. The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany said the government had agreed…
UNB, Dhaka The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads & Railways (NCPSRR) on Sunday urged the concerned authorities to take necessary steps to stop plying of vessels through the Shela River in Sundarbans to keep its biodiversity intact. NCPSRR, a green and civil rights body, has been campaigning long for an environmentally and…
BBC: Twin wildfires in California, known as the Mendocino Complex Fire, have grown to become the largest active wildfire in state history, officials said on Monday. The fires have spread rapidly in recent days to burn 283,800 acres of land – an area almost the size of Los Angeles. Firefighters are tackling 16 major blazes…