Reuters: A stronger dollar combined with a slump in the Chinese currency pushed gold down to the weakest in nearly 17 months on Friday and some analysts expect further downside. Spot gold was unchanged at $1,207.56 an ounce at 0941 GMT, after earlier dropping to its lowest since March 15 last year at $1,204. For…
Desk report: A case was filed against three youths on Thursday over rape of a seventh-grade schoolgirl in Alphadanga upazila on Monday. reports the Daily Star. The 13-year-old’s father filed the case with Alphadanga Police Station under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, said Nazmul Karim, officer-in-charge of the police station. The accused are Yasin…
Desk report: There have been marked changes in Bangladesh’s rainfall patterns with increasing rains occurring during the spring and less than the usual precipitations occurring in the monsoon months. In the parlance of the Met Office, Bangladesh has four and not six seasons.This year July, which used to be the wettest month with average rainfall…
Desk report: Ride-sharing service has emerged as a welcome relief for hundreds of youths who now dream of living better with income opportunities, reports the Financial Eepress. Students to part-time or even permanent employees are taking to the sector to become solvent enough to meet the high cost of living in the capital.According to riders…
Desk report: City residents fear that cattle markets may be set up on parks, roads, playgrounds and rail tracks like previous years, which will intensify public sufferings ahead of Eid-ul Azha,reports the Daily Sun. They have expressed the concern after Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) decided to allow 13 cattle markets in the area. The…
UNB: Chattogram, Aug 4 (UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive rescued 11 boys from the clutches of traffickers and arrested a suspected human trafficker along with Yaba tablets atShantir Hat Bazar under Rangunia upazila on Friday evening. The arrestee is Md Kamal Uddin, 25, son of Din Mohammad, a resident…
Desk report: There have been marked changes in Bangladesh’s rainfall patterns with increasing rains occurring during the spring and less than the usual precipitations occurring in the monsoon months,reports the New Age. In the parlance of the Met Office, Bangladesh has four and not six seasons.The four seasons include pre-monsoon, monsoon, post-monsoon and winter. This…
UNB: A diversified approach and concentration on theme-based parks can give a big boost to domestic tourism, attracting more and more foreign tourists, say tour operators in the country. They said this is an area where both private and public sectors can work together to ensure greater contributions to the national economy from the tourism…
Medical Daily: You’ve heard the old advice that skipping meals is a sure-fire way to ruin a weight loss plan, but a new study presented this week at the annual Obesity Society Meeting in New Orleans suggests that perhaps we’ve overlooked the benefits of selective fasting. According to the research, eating during a smaller window…
Eurek Alert: An avalanche is an extremely complex event, with countless parameters and physical variables coming into play from the time the avalanche is triggered until it ends. Johan Gaume, a researcher in the Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences (CRYOS) and SLF,* has created a highly accurate digital simulation of an avalanche based on these parameters….