Arab News India’s environmental watchdog has slapped New Delhi’s government with a $3.5 million fine for failing to enforce rules to reduce smog in the world’s most polluted major city, officials said Tuesday. The National Green Tribunal penalised the capital administration for its lack of oversight after it emerged some polluting industries were still burning…
Gil Troy/The Jerusalem Post Walker’s good Jews are those nice universalists who “leave race and culture and religion/Handed to us at birth behind.” Last week, the Alice Walker antisemitism controversy shifted from the New York Times to the History News Network (HNN). This time, legendary novelist Walker and a historian stooge proved downright Trumpian in…
Science Alert Back in August, the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) was surprised to learn that a leak was responsible for a slight loss in air pressure aboard the station. After investigating, they learned that the cause was a small hole in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that had docked with the ISS. While…
EurekAlert: The world’s most widely used weed killer may also be indirectly killing bees. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and are more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria….
Sayeed Muhammad At least 33 have been killed and 16 injured after a bus collided head-on with a lorry on a road in central Kenya, police said.“We have 30 dead,” said Rift Valley traffic police chief Zero Arome while describing of the 3am (local time) accident close to Nakuru town. All the corpses were later…
Myisha Nawar Steam survival hit Rust implemented a new feature recently, which randomly makes the player’s avatar a man or woman. The previous, permanent randomization for the character’s skin, color, limb length and, even, penis size generally got positive reviews from almost all the players. But that was when the avatars were all male. With…
Stock market transactions rise ahead of election Desk Report: Stock market transactions are increasing as the national election draws near. Transactions in the country’s leading bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) exceeded Tk 10 billion last Thursday, the highest since last 11 July, reports The Prothom Alo. Market analysts think, political factors.
Eurek Alert: Corals know how to attract good company. New research finds that corals emit an enticing fluorescent green light that attracts the mobile microalgae, known as Symbiodinium, that are critical to the establishment of a healthy partnership. The study led by researchers at Japan’s National Institute for Basic Biology and the ARC Centre of…
Reuters: The United States will more than double the number of Marines stationed in Norway, in line with plans first outlined in June, the Norwegian defense ministry said on Wednesday. Plans to increase the number of Marines in Norway to 700 from 330 and moving some of them closer to the border with Russia had…