hazards: NSSB UNB Alien invasive or introduced species around the globe has been creating health and environmental as well as Eco-ethological hazards, according to Nature Study Society of Bangladesh. About sixty participants from different schools, colleges and universities attended the program, said a press release.
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The government is going to procure 17 dredgers to improve navigability on waterways side by side building and launching 45 water vessels across the country. “The government has already procured 14 dredgers to keep up navigability on waterways and built and introduced 45 vessels for ferrying passengers aimed at improving communications…
The Guardian: It is no longer fashionable to be anti-ageing: it has been rebadged as “pro-skin”, by the founder of American skincare brand Drunk Elephant and “anti-wrinkles” by Neutrogena. A new vocabulary of renewal, regeneration, plumpness and “glow” now dominates the language of the beauty industry, the ethos of body-positivity finally inching its way up…
John Lawrence/ The Atlantic The untold story of how America’s political leaders crossed the aisle to stave off financial collapse in 2008 The treasury secretary’s voice exuded tension and urgency. “A very serious situation is developing,” Henry Paulson warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone. “Nothing we can say will calm the situation until…
AFP: Japan Friday launched an unprecedented probe into gender discrimination at all the nation’s medical universities after a Tokyo medical school admitted altering the entrance test results of female applicants to exclude them. The education ministry has asked all 81 private and public medical schools to check their admission procedures for possible discrimination against female…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Jatiya Party will announce tomorrow whether they will remain as the opposition or be part of the government. The party is a key component of Awami League-led 14-Party Grand Alliance that registered a landslide victory in Sunday’s 11th general election. JP Secretary General Moshiur Rahman Ranga said this while addressing journalists…
Samiul Bashar Samin Economic slavery, or wage slavery, refers to one’s total and immediate dependence on wages to survive. Although people throughout history have had to work to get by, we now live in a culture where we are led to believe we have economic freedom, when unbeknownst to most citizens, we are in fact…
M Humayun Kabir: The Supreme Court yesterday kept pending till August 13 a petition filed against a High Court order that directed the authorities to send detained photographer Shahidul Alam to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University for his treatment. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the…
Gary Younge, Noted columnist/ Gulf News For quite some time during the primary season for the 2016 presidential race, Democratic party leaders were delighted that Donald Trump was leading the Republican pack. They assumed the brash reality TV star would expose the bigotry of the Republican base before flaming out and leaving a more plausible…
DOT Desk Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested three people in the capital on charge of spreading rumours through social media. The arrestees are Wahidunnabi, 47, Arafat Tarunno Tamadi, 37 and Abdullah Jabid, 45, reports The Daily Observer. They were held from Shyamoli on Thursday night. The move comes just few days…