BSS France’s countryside comes to Paris on Saturday as the agricultural expo kicks off, the annual opportunity for urbanites to channel their inner peasants and politicians to burnish their farm cred. Strutting cows, prize pigs and splendid cockerels will preen for the cameras as nearly 700,000 visitors — a third of them children under 12…
M Humayun Kabir BNP yesterday rolled out a seven-point charter, prioritizing Khaleda Zia’s unconditional release from jail, at their rally in the city. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the disclosure of the charter, focusing on the upcoming general election and for a nonpartisan election-time government, reports The Daily Star. The party demanded…
BBC: It’s a question that has prompted a global call to action: how do you best eliminate single-use plastic bags, before they further pollute our oceans? Australia is among places grappling with bans, but it has struck teething pains amid what many have likened to “tantrums” by change-averse customers. Now a major supermarket chain has…
Independent, UK: Aziz Asbar was one of Syria’s most important rocket scientists, bent on amassing an arsenal of precision-guided missiles that could be launched with pinpoint accuracy against Israeli cities hundreds of miles away. He had free access to the highest levels of the Syrian and Iranian governments, and his own security detail. He led…
Alexandra Borchardt, Director of Strategic Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism/Project Syndicate After years of bad news for the news business, recent data suggest that consumer confidence is slowly returning. To sustain this trend, journalists must continue producing quality content, and governments should explore new ways to support those who cannot…
BBC: It’s taken a little longer than expected but the Solar Orbiter probe is built and ready to begin testing. UK engineers are putting the finishing touches to the satellite this week before sending it to Germany to begin a year-long test campaign. Such attention to detail is necessary because of the punishing conditions the spacecraft…
UNB: A Bangladeshi physicist of Princeton University has led an international research team in discovering a novel quantum state of matter that can be ‘tuned’ at will — and it’s 10 times more tunable than existing theories can explain. M Zahid Hasan and his team’s discovery of this level of manipulability of quantum matter opens…
Reuters: China’s defense ministry said on Thursday that it was supporting Afghanistan’s defense and counterterrorism efforts, a day after Beijing denied a plan to build a base in Afghanistan and to send Chinese forces to the war-torn country. China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed a report by the South China Morning Post that cited sources…
Eshan Maitra On March 27, two amateur astronomersGerrit fromMödling, Austria and John Mckeon, from Dublin, Ireland observed a great flash on the atmosphere of Jupitar. They were just simply observing the planet and they came across such footage by distant odds. They reported about it approximately around the same time. Though, only to discover the…