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400m people at risk as cities fail to face climate change
Hundreds of cities have no climate adaptation plans in place despite rising threats like floods, heatwaves and pollution, according to…
Apocalypse engulfs India
WEST Bengal elections results could not have been, to put it mildly, more disappointing for the…
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies
Michael Collins – one of the three crew members of the first manned mission to the…
Banks’ interest rate spread rises to 3.05pts
The overall weighted average interest rate spread in the country’s banking sector rose to 3.05 percentage…
China hands over 5 lakh doses of Covid vaccine to Bangladesh
Some 5 lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, donated by the Chinese government to Bangladesh,…
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Hundreds of cities have no climate adaptation plans in place despite rising threats like floods, heatwaves and pollution, according to a report Wednesday that said this could put 400 million people at risk across the world.…
Apocalypse engulfs India
WEST Bengal elections results could not have been, to put it mildly, more disappointing for the Indian prime minister and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. Never in India’s electoral history has the party/alliance in…
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies
Michael Collins – one of the three crew members of the first manned mission to the Moon, Apollo 11 in 1969 – has died aged 90, his family say. He died on Wednesday after “a valiant…
Banks’ interest rate spread rises to 3.05pts
The overall weighted average interest rate spread in the country’s banking sector rose to 3.05 percentage points in March after remaining below 3 percentage points for several months after the implementation of 9-per cent lending rate.…
China hands over 5 lakh doses of Covid vaccine to Bangladesh
Some 5 lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, donated by the Chinese government to Bangladesh, were handed over to the Bangladesh government on Wednesday. Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming formally handed over the doses…
Chinese rocket segment disintegrates over Indian Ocean
A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the Chinese space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. Officials…
City clinch ‘hardest’ Premier League title after United defeat
Manchester City were crowned Premier League champions for the third time in four seasons after Manchester United crashed to a 2-1 defeat against Leicester on Tuesday. Pep Guardiola’s side are 10 points clear of second placed…