AP news: A staple of summer,swarms of bugs,seems to be a thing of the past. And that’s got scientists worried. Pesky mosquitoes, disease-carrying ticks, crop-munching aphids and cockroaches are doing just fine. But the more beneficial flying insects of summer — native bees, moths, butterflies, ladybugs, lovebugs, mayflies and fireflies — appear to be less abundant….
Reuters: Garment workers in Bangladesh have rejected an increase in the minimum wage, saying it is still not enough to live on and urging global brands to pay more for the clothes they buy, unions said. Bangladesh raised the minimum wage by more than 50 percent last week to 8,000 taka ($95.5) a month –…
Tariq A. Al Maeena, Saudi socio-political commentator/ Gulf News If Saudis do not feel like welcoming Israelis on their lands, they are perfectly right An international chess tournament that was scheduled to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has had its venue moved to Russia. The organisers of the World Blitz and Rapid Championship confirmed…
Reported by: Humayun Kabir Khokan Written by: Eshan Maitra The cabinet finalized the approval of Seed Law 2017, at the parliament meeting yesterday. That will result in jail & fine for the violators of this law, who would supply lesser quality seeds to the farmers. The meeting was hosted by the Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh…
Md. Taqi Yasir Since the time Abraham Lincoln, the blanket amnesty was introduced. In the year of 1863, Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction where he declared a new form of conciliation to solve the disputed differences between parties. Due to the reason of this, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in the 1865 and a great…
UNB: National Board of Revenue (NBR) has put a strong vigilance mechanism in place to keep tax evasion in check. Official sources confirmed the UNB that NBR took the move as it does not want to underachieve its set goal of collecting a hefty Tk 2,96,201 crore revenue in financial year 2018-19. NBR has asked…
C.P. Surendran, Senior journalist based in India/Gulf News The Prime minister has to reshuffle Cabinet as no Indian government in recent times has a more crying need for critical, creative brains What must Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Last week, the Reserve Bank of India reported that 99.3 per cent worth of cancelled big…
Desk report: The country’s overall natural gas supply has reached around 3,205 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) riding on the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG), reports the financial express. This is the highest-ever gas supply in the history of Bangladesh. Local gas companies are producing around 1,072 mmcfd or 33 per cent and…
UNB: After a 10-day winter vacation, the academic activities of Comilla University (CoU) will resume on Tuesday. Earlier, the vacation started on December 22 which will end on December 31, said CoU Registrar Dr Md Abu Taher. Along with other batches, the classes of first year honors students will begin on Tuesday, he added.
BSS: Amidst a well harvest and better prices in the market, the tomato growers in the region including the vast Barind tractare happy this winter. Tomato, an attractive vegetable to the consumers, has been appearing in different local markets of the region for the last couple of weeks here. Now the farmers are collecting tomatoes…