Business Insider Earlier this year, researchers found a deposit of rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan that could supply the world for centuries, according to a study. The study, published in the journal Nature in April 2018, says the deposit contains 16 million tons of the valuable metals. Rare-earth minerals are used in everything…
Eshan Maitra Ridley Scott’s dream might just become made into possible by NASA. They are really taking up the project of growing potatoes in Mars! Though they are not thinking about sending Matt Damon and leaving him stranded there for a year. Currently they are testing it first, in the driest desert on Earth, Pampas…
BBC: Most of the plastic food containers that householders wash out after use and put in the recycling bin cannot actually be recycled, it has emerged. The mixture of plastics used in many yoghurt pots, ready meal trays and other containers limits the ability of councils to recycle them. The Local Government Association says that…
DOT Desk Warfaze joined Unicef as “Advocate for Child Rights” in a contract of two years. The announcement was made at the 14th Meena Awards 2018, an event held at the Pan-Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka, reports Dhaka Tribune. The percussionist of Warfaze, Sheikh Monirul Alam Tipu told Dhaka Tribune Showtime, “We were invited to…
The Guardian, UK: The FBI in May 2017 opened an inquiry into whether Donald Trump was working on behalf of Russia, the New York Times reports. Citing unnamed former law enforcement officials, the paper reported Friday that in the days after the president fired the former FBI director James Comey, law enforcement officials were so…
BDnews24 Police have arrested Satkhira-4 paddy sheaf candidate and Jamaat leader Gazi Nazrul Islam and three others in connection with a sabotage case. The four were detained from the Islampur area of Shyamnagar on Sunday afternoon.According to Shyamnagar Police OC Abul Kalam, Gazi Nazrul Islam had been holding a meeting with other Jamaat leaders at…
NDTV The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle’s “accent” has become the talk of the town once again. In a recent video clip from Queen Elizabeth II’s documentary ‘Queen of the World’, Meghan, according to viewers, can be heard talking “in a slight British accent.” The clip first appeared online over the weekend, in which she…
Sky News It is a truth universally acknowledged that a beer cracked open outside must be in want of a couple of annoying flies. Of course, nobody really wants those flies – but still they come, following the opening of a beer like Monday follows the weekend. Now scientists have figured out how fruit flies…
Reuters: Aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, working in Cox’s Bazar at the southern tip of Bangladesh, estimated in the first month of violence, beginning at the end of August 2017, that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed. But the survey, in what is now the largest refugee camp in the world, was limited to the…
UNB Two minor brothers were found dead at Dhulipara in Sadar South upazila on Saturday. Police recovered the bodies of Joy, 7, and his younger brother Moni, 5, sons of Abul Kalam of the area, in the afternoon. Victims’ father Abul Kalam said he along with his wife Rekha Akhter found the…