Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Hen lays ‘eggless’ chick!

A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. Instead of passing out of the hen’s body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched ... Read more

Dubai deports 88 Bangladeshis

Illegal Stay Dubai deports 88 Bangladeshis Dubai authorities yesterday sent 88 Bangladeshi expatriates back for working there “illegally”. They all landed at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport on a Fly Dubai plane at 8:30pm. The returnees who went to Dubai for work at different times had to serve jail sentences as they had fled from ... Read more

Swine flu patients improving

The health of all 31 swine flu infected students of Kurigram Nursing Training Institute has been gradually improving since they were first diagnosed with the disease on Tuesday. They were recovering after being treated with Oseltamivir, an anti-influenza drug, widely used worldwide for treating the highly infectious

Swine flu returns, stay cautioned

Swine flu or Influenza A (H1N1) has recently returned in Bangladesh. Experts urged to stay cautious and take preventive measures and seek treatment if anybody shows the signs and symptoms including fever, sore throat, cough, runny nose, headache, body-pain, difficulty in breathing, with general weakness, loss of appetite, diarrhoea or vomiting etc. The following tips will ... Read more

Save Sonadia, save Sundarbans

Sourav Mahmud Sonadia Island is one of the biodiversity hotspot of Bangladesh. In 1995, the Government of Bangladesh included a provision for the declaration of Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) in the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act. Twelve sites are classified as ECAs and guidelines exist to control further damage to these areas. Sonadia is considered ecologically ... Read more

Ramsar Convention: Our obligation

Dr. M.A. Bashar It is learnt from newspapers very recently that in the Sundarbans area three large constructions will take place which are very dangerous and detrimental to normal functioning of the mangrove forest ecosystem. It means that the interactions between biotic and abiotic factors will be seriously hampered in the ecosystems conservation. The projects ... Read more

Star out of stardom

Abdul Matin Shah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood superstar, was detained at White Plains Airport in New York by US immigration for an hour and half when he arrived there in a private plane on April 12, 2012 to deliver a lecture at the Yale University where he was honoured as a Chubb Fellow. He was ... Read more

Swine flu returns

31 student nurses come down with deadly influenza in Kurigram SWINE FLU Symptoms: Acute cough, fever and occasional vomiting. Cautions: Refraining people from coughing, sneezing in public places and keeping apart the infected persons from other persons. Chronology: First broke out in 2009 claiming lives of eight people, resurfaced in

Looting was motive

Murder in Gulshan Looting was motive Driver admits upon arrest by Rab The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested the driver, who allegedly stabbed his employer’s wife to death in her Gulshan home Tuesday, from the capital’s Kamrangirchar area. Driver Mintu Peyada, 40, of Salodh village under Nariya upazila in Shariatpur, was arrested with the knife ... Read more

Ex-DIG, wife jailed for stealing 7 kids

Former deputy inspector general of police Anisur Rahman and his wife Anwara Rahman were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life on charge of stealing seven children for trafficking. The Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 4 judge, Arifur Rahman, also fined each of the couple Tk 5 lakh, in default to serve one more ... Read more

HC assigns RAB to probe Sagar-Runi killings

The High Court on Wednesday directed the inspector general of the police to hand over the responsibility of investigation into the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi from the Detective Branch to the Rapid Action Battalion. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Jahangir Hossain also

RanksTel set for a comeback

After remaining switched off for two years, RanksTel has taken steps to resume its operations soon, the private land phone operator said in a statement yesterday. The operator has already started the re-registration process of its more than three lakh customers, according to the statement. “We developed our network in the last six months to resume ... Read more

Nippon Express sets foot in Bangladesh

A new logistics service provider — Nippon Express Bangladesh Ltd — started operations here on Tuesday, the company said in a statement. The company, a joint venture initiative of Japan-based logistic giant Nippon Express Co and Bangladesh’s Golden Harvest Logistic Ltd, will provide tailor-made services for exporters and

Swipe cards reveal new era of BRTC transport

Revolutionising the country’s passenger transport, Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) launched the use of a swipe card ticketing system, similar to that of London’s Oyster card. Instead of queuing up for tickets at every BRTC bus counter, passengers can now use a smartcard to swipe a reader before boarding and getting off the

Key steps for keeping your voice healthy

World Voice Day Key steps for keeping your voice healthy Vocal health is critical to our communication-oriented society, but the voice does not receive public recognition and appreciation it deserves. In order to educate patients and communities about the ways to protect their precious voice and to refamiliarise ourselves with the latest advances in voice ... Read more