The Guardian, UK: Microplastic can escape from polluted waters via flying insects, new research has revealed, contaminating new environments and threatening birds and other creatures that eat the insects. Scientists fed microplastics to mosquito larvae, which live in water, but found that the particles remained inside the animals as they transformed into flying adults. Other…
MD. HABIBUL ALAM ,former student of Mass Communication and Journalism, DU : It seems our every single morning starts with bad news such as millions of dollars are being hacked, girls are getting raped, sons are sending their parents in old-homes and what not. Political leaders to Businessmen, Development institute to corporate houses all are…
Kabir Humayun: Two activists – one from Awami League and another from BNP – have been caught while “stealing” fuel from a train in Natore’s Azimpur Rail Station. Azmal Hossain, company commander of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) 5, the detainees were stealing 2,530 litres of diesel from a train, reports The Daily Star. The arrestees…
UNB: A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was reportedly trampled to death by a wild elephant in Sagarnal area of Juri upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Azmal Ali Shamim, 45, president of Kulaura upazila unit JCD and son of Amzad Ali of Sadhanpur village in the upazila. Quoting locals,…
Dalal Mawad, Sarafand, Lebanon/UNHCR Star pupil Abed, 12, discovers a gift for mathematics thanks to Lebanese professor and scheme to promote quality teaching in underprivileged schools. Leaning his small body across the chipped wooden desk at the center of a green-walled classroom, 12-year-old Abed helps explain a mathematical problem to three other students. Abed is…
Sayeed Muhammad: At two people were hospitalized after allegedly being hit by a car purportedly near a Muslim community center in northwest London overnight in an incident. However, the police say the attack was not related to terrorism, . There were reports people in the car had made Islamophobic comments before it left the scene…
Hossen Sohel: Bangl-adesh put in an organized performance to hand an emphatic 8-0 defeat to Lebanon in their Group F encounter of AFC U-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers at Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium yesterday, reports The Daily Star. Sajeda, Saraban Tahura and Shamsunnahar Jr struck a brace while Anai Mogini and substitute Rojina Akhter netted…
Desk Report: Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has invited Bangladesh to subscribe to its second edition of Sukuk (Islamic bonds), officials said, reports The financial Express. The bond is scheduled to be floated this month. Under its US$ 25 billion medium-term note (MTN) programme, IsDB issues the bond to meet its funding requirements. IsDB president…
Banglanews24: Police detained thirty two persons including three members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh in drives conducted in various places of the district. Arms, a magazine, a foreign pistol, 3 rounds of bullets, hemp, heroin, gun powder, 500 bottles of phensedyls were also seized from them, said inspector Mintu Rahman.
AFP: They scale barbed-wire topped fences and cross the sea in inflatable boats or jet skis — more than 36,000 migrants entered Spain this year seeking a better life in Europe. Almost all of them relied on smugglers to make the crossing. Ousman Umar, who made a five-year journey from Ghana to Spain, said it…