Desk report: The government is in a hurry to get rural infrastructure development projects involving substantial volume of funds approved by the Planning Commission (PC) before the forthcoming national elections, officials said on Saturday, reports The Financial Express. They said the Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) alone has sought approval for nine projects meant…
Tech Explorist: Students who experience violence at a high school are more likely to report psycho-social and academic impairment later. The study conducted by the Université de Montréal with colleagues in Belgium and France suggests that being a bystander of high-school violence can be as damaging to mental health.Michel Janosz of UdeM’s School of Psycho-Education…
Danielle Jackson/LONGREADS In an incisive essay for the Baffler, political scientist Adolph Reed considers how many pop culture creations made with Black audiences in mind — including films like Birth of a Nation, Selma, and Black Panther — are narratives of singular, heroic, often male, achievement. “Tales of inspiration and uplift,” he calls them. Meanwhile,…
Arafat Hasan: Girls in Kenya are being forced to engage in sex in exchange for sanitary products. It is being blamed primarily due to the prevalence of poverty and the shame, stigma and public health misinformation which surrounds menstruation. New exclusive research by Unicef discovered that 65% of females in the Kibera slum – an…
M Humayun Kabir: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the government has started an initiative to bring back two assassins of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The government has filed two separate cases in the US and Canada courts to repatriate M Rashed Chowdhury and Noor Chowdhury, the Awami League general secretary said. “The…
Desk report: Mobile operator Robi is set to offload its 20 per cent stake valued at US$120 million to edotco Bangladesh, a Malaysia-based telecommunications infrastructure services company, reports The financial express. Bangladesh’s second largest mobile phone operator has taken the latest initiative to facilitate edotco Bangladesh Co. Ltd. (edotco BD) for complying with the rules…
Peter Van Buren, A 24-year State Department veteran, Author/BDnews24 The unnamed insiders who claim to be working clandestinely to resist Donald Trump are not heroes. As a State Department whistleblower who lost his career to tell the truth about the Iraq war, I am burdened by how the interviewees in Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,”…
The Daily Observer: The dredging of river Padma to prevent the scourge of riverbank erosion that rendered 5000 families homeless in Shariatpur district will begin from Monday. A dredger was brought at the erosion affected area in Naria on Sunday, said Acting Secretary of Water Resources Ministry in a press briefing at Naria Upazila Parishad…
EurekAlert: Studying the fundamental aspects of biology can sometimes lead to unexpected findings that directly relate to human disease. In one of the latest examples of scientific serendipity, researchers from the Salk Institute found that an important quality control mechanism in baker’s yeast is closely connected to hypomyelinating leukodystrophy, a debilitating disease found in children….
CBS News: An Australian state has offered a large reward for information after sewing needles were found in strawberries sold in supermarkets, in what the federal health minister described as a “vicious crime.” The issue came to light last week when a man was taken to hospital with stomach pains after eating the fresh produce…