AFP: Scientists said Monday they had succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction. So-called gene drive technology works by forcing evolution’s hand, ensuring that an engineered trait is passed down to a higher proportion of offspring…
Peter Apps, Reuters global affairs c olumnist/Reuters Four years after World War Two, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was asked to reflect on what would have prevented the conflict. The greatest mistake after World War One, he said, was not to properly resource the League of Nations, the international forum of countries created in…
Olivier Bonaparte/ Seven Billion Today The 14th Dalai Lama said in Sweden that ‘Europe belongs to Europeans.’ “Receive them, help them, educate them … but ultimately they should develop their own country,” the 83-year-old said, when speaking about refugees. This ‘spiritual leader’ is a hypocrit and his comments are unacceptable – seeing as he is…
AP: A Chinese citizen living in Chicago was arrested Tuesday for allegedly spying, including by helping with the recruitment of US engineers, defense contractors and scientists for intelligence services in China, federal prosecutors said. Ji Chaoqun, 27, is charged with one count of knowingly acting in the US as an agent of a foreign government…
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said neighboring Myanmar always tries to find new excuses to delay the return of more than 700,000 Rohingyas who were forced across the border over the past year. “They agree everything, but unfortunately they don’t act, that is the problem,” Hasina said of Myanmar. “Everything is set but……
Hossen Sohel: Two muggers were shot by police while fleeing a mugging, reports Dhaka Tribune. The incident occurred near the Shishu Park area of Dhaka, around 2am, yesterday. The injured thieves, Kabir and Salman, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Confirming the matter, Shahbagh police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abul Hossain said a police…
Desk Report: The former students of SUST all over Germany gathered in the city’s “Kinder und Jugend” house for the event. Alumni of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) have celebrated a reunion in Germany. According to a press release, the get-together was celebrated in Fuerth, next to Germany’s Nuremberg, on Saturday afternoon. The…
Reuters: Uber’s head of corporate development, Cameron Poetzscher, was disciplined after a probe found he had a pattern of making sexually suggestive comments about other co-workers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the investigation. When the findings of the probe by an outside law firm were presented to an internal…
Desk Report: People belonging to backward Dalit and Harijan communities formed a human chain along DB Road in the town yesterday demanding their representation in parliament and quota in government services. Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights Movement (BDERM), Janouddog, Harijan Oikya Parishad, Bangladesh Rabidas Unnayan Parishad, Abalambon and Bangladesh Rabidas Forum jointly organised the programme….
Srishti Singh Sisodia, Digital journalist / WION News, India Brazilian footballer Marta Vieira da Silva was born to play football in a country where girls and women were banned from playing the game. Brazil had a law, according to which, girls and women were not allowed to play football, not professionally, not in schools, not…