Desk Report: Bangladesh is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change and natural disasters, with over six percent of the population affected by disasters each year, reports Daily Asian Age. Between 1980 and 2013, the average Bangladeshi was personally affected by two disasters. The primary threats to Bangladesh are floods, droughts, cyclones…
Telesur: French President Emmanuel Macron is under fire after he responded to an unemployed horticulturist struggling to find any relevant position that he would be able to find him a job instantly in any Parisian restaurant “just by crossing the street.” Welcoming the public to the presidential palace on Saturday as part of an open-doors…
The Washington Post: Family and friends had known about the president’s intimate relationship with another woman for years, but whispers about their involvement were growing. Woodrow Wilson was so worried that he asked his close adviser, Colonel Edward M. House, to meet him after dinner in his White House study on Sept. 22, 1915. In…
NDTV: China has accused Taiwan’s intelligence agencies of using honey traps to recruit university exchange students as spies, in an effort to “infiltrate” and “sabotage” activities on the mainland. The claim was made as part of a massive state media campaign, the CNN reported.”(The Taiwanese spies) use money, love, seduction and internet hook-ups to develop…
ScienceBlog: 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 and animals. “Most mountaintop…
Sky News: A young boy in Australia has admitted to putting needles in strawberries as a “prank”. Police said the boy, who has not been named, confessed to the gag as investigations continue over deliberate fruit contamination. They said they still did not know the motive for the attacks and were still looking for suspects….
Desk Report: Bangladesh economy has attained a stirring 7.86 per cent growth in the last fiscal year 2017-18 (FY18), driven by the expansion of industrial and agricultural sectors, government data showed Tuesday, reports The Financial Express. The final Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is 0.21 percentage point higher than the provisional estimation of 7.65 per…
BSS Rahela Khatun, 31, lives at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar district. She visits regularly a health centre run by a non-government organization (NGO). She was informed in the centre about different birth control systems. A mother of seven, Rahela was earlier in dark about those practices. Now, she is taking…
Reuters: India’s cabinet has approved an executive order to make instant divorce among Muslims, a procedure called “triple talaq”, a punishable offence, a government minister said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to woo Muslim women voters. The Supreme Court outlawed the practice last year, but Modi’s government wants to make it a…
Hossen Sohel: A figurative bronze sculpture of Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will be put up for sale by auction in order to raise money for charity, said Dr Thant Thaw Kaung, executive committee member of the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, reports Eleven Media Group. The auction will be jointly organised by the…