Launching on Dec 16, 2017 to help boost broadcasting, telecom services French company Thales Alenia Space has been given the job of launching Bangladesh’s first satellite as part of the government’s efforts to narrow the digital divide and create new opportunities. The cabinet committee on purchase yesterday approved Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission’s proposal for awarding […]
WHO study shows pedestrians constitute 32pc of those killed on Bangladesh roads every year. Thirty-two percent of the people who die on the roads of Bangladesh every year are pedestrians, says a global report on road safety, exposing how deadly the roads are for pedestrians. The pedestrian mortality rate is 10 percent higher than the […]
BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has dedicated the World Food Prize to women fighting against poverty. World Food Prize Foundation Chairman John Ruan III handed him the prize on Friday in Iowa, USA, a BRAC media statement said. It announced the award last July. The World Food Prize recognises achievements of individuals who have made vital […]
Oct 20 2015 | Posted in
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The United States and other rich nations are doing less than their fair share to fight climate change under a UN accord due in December while China is outperforming, a report by 18 civil society groups said on Monday. Overall, governments’ pledges for curbs on greenhouse gas emissions are not enough to limit a rise […]
Oct 20 2015 | Posted in
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An investigation has found that the majority of French lettuce contains traces of hormone disrupting chemicals, some of which are banned. Journal de l Environnement reports. The French NGO Générations Futures released the results of an inquiry into chemical contamination in food products on Tuesday (22 September). After examining the contaminants in strawberries in July 2013, the NGO […]
A new University of Washington study that tested 65 wines from America’s top four wine-producing states — California, Washington, New York and Oregon — found all but one have arsenic levels that exceed what’s allowed in drinking water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows drinking water to contain no more than 10 parts per billion of arsenic. […]
Oct 19 2015 | Posted in
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A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA’s Cassini mission. Researchers found the magnitude of the moon’s very slight wobble, as it orbits Saturn, can only be accounted for if its outer ice shell is not frozen solid to its interior, meaning […]
Oct 19 2015 | Posted in
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Particle pollution floating through the air is responsible for millions of deaths annually — what if we could find a way to capture and repurpose those particles into something productive? China’s Smoggy Days Vs. Clear Ones: Photos Anirudh Sharma is doing just that. The MIT graduate has devised Kaala-printer, a machine capable of turning carbon-rich […]
Oct 18 2015 | Posted in
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You might think that dirt doesn’t matter that much — after all there seems to be so much of it all over the planet. But researchers warn that the world’s precious supply of topsoil — which we need to grow food crops, absorb excess carbon and supply us with new antibiotics — is being lost […]
Oct 18 2015 | Posted in
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KIEV, Ukraine—War, nuclear accidents, and poverty rarely have a silver lining, but in Chernobyl and a handful of other places around the world, catastrophes for human populations have become a boon for wildlife. In places plagued by guerrilla warfare, nuclear fallout, and chemical weapons, wild animals have rebounded in great numbers on land we have […]
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