News Desk: LONDON, Jan 19, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The Premier League revealed on Monday that just 16 players and staff had tested positive for coronavirus in the latest round of testing — a significant drop from recent weeks. Britain is in a fresh lockdown as authorities battle a highly infectious strain of Covid-19 but fears of another shutdown for the […]
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News Desk: WASHINGTON, Jan 16, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – By the time Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US president Wednesday, his scandal-tainted predecessor Donald Trump will already be far away, having helicoptered out of the White House a last time earlier that morning, an official said Friday. Trump will be the first president in a century and a […]
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News Desk: UNITED NATIONS, United States, Jan 16, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The coronavirus pandemic has slowed global migration by nearly 30 percent, with around two million fewer migrants between 2019 and 2020, according to a UN report released on Friday. Some 281 million people were living outside their country of origin in 2020. The report, entitled “International Migration 2020,” showed […]
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News Desk: The government had imposed 10 per cent duty on imported onions to ensure fair price for local growers for the product as the neighbouring country had withdrawn the ban on export of the item. It had also reduced duty on import of rice to 25 per cent from previous 62.50 per cent to keep the price of the […]
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BAU correspondence The inaugural ceremony of the training program on “Fish Feed Formulation” was held online in Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, Bangladesh on 4 January 2021. Bangladesh Agricultural University, in partnership with Wageningen University (WUR) and Single Spark, The Netherlands, organized this two‐week training under the project entitled ‘Strengthening the Linkages Between Feed Optimization, Fish Production and Healthy Diets’. […]
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News Desk: KANKARA, Nigeria, Dec 18, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were released on Thursday after being abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram, officials said, although it was unclear if any more remained with their captors. The assault last Friday on a rural school in Kankara, Katsina state in northwest Nigeria, was initially blamed on […]
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News Desk : A health worker in Alaska suffered a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer-BioNTech’sCOVID-19 vaccine and is now hospitalised but stable, a report said on Wednesday. The New York Times reported the person received their shot on Tuesday, and Pfizer confirmed it was working with local authorities to investigate the incident. Two health workers in Britain had similar […]
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News Desk : The world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume said Saturday it would apply for an emergency licence for a coronavirus vaccine within two weeks, and that confusion over the efficacy would not delay its distribution. Serum Institute of India chief executive Adar Ponnawala also confirmed that the Pune-based giant would be able to produce at least 100 million […]
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Scholarship Desk: Sussex Bangladesh Scholarship (2021) is scholarship for applicants who are a national of Bangladesh, are classed as ‘Overseas’ for fees purposes and have been accepted to study an eligible Masters course at Sussex. Type of award and amount Tuition fee reduction and scholarship amount is £3,000 Eligibility To be eligible for this scholarship, you must: be a national […]
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Scholarship Desk: University of Ghent is offering Special Research Fund – Doctoral Scholarships for Candidates from Developing Countries – call 2021 Who can apply for this scholarship Candidates need to come from – and have the nationality of – a developing country (see country list) The proposals must be jointly submitted by a candidate, a supervisor (promoter) at Ghent University […]
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