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Palm oil and Indonesia’s raging forest fires

Shawdesh Desk: Forest fires raging across Indonesia have sent air quality levels across Southeast Asia plummeting as they belch out emissions that aggravate global warming. The country’s palm oil industry

Bangladesh ‘temporarily’ bans heartburn drug Ranitidine made with ingredients of two Indian firms

Shawdesh Desk: The two Indian companies that supply the raw material – Ranitidine hydrochloride – are Saraca Laboratories Limited and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, according to a media release issued by

Trump has no plans to add legal firepower for impeachment fight

Shawdesh Desk: “We’re going to use our existing team,” said Jay Sekulow, one of the most prominent figures on the Republican president’s legal team during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation

Apple steps into the movie business

Shawdesh Desk: Apple is going to the movies. The company, which is set to unveil its Apple Plus TV streaming service on Nov 1, will enter the film business this

Bin Qasim’s ghosts

GHOTKI is otherwise a quiet city in Sindh, bordering Pakistan’s Punjab in the north and India in the east. Historically, this place has been at a crossroads of invading armies,

A highlight of the ‘disquiet’ world

THE 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened in the past week amid simmering tension in the Middle East over recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, which

Government lags behind in NCD prevention, cure

FATALITIES from non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases, are alarmingly high. The National Health Bulletin 2018 says that the main cause of morbidity in district and medical hospitals was cardiovascular diseases.

Hilsa export to India gets stuck at Benapole port

Shawdesh Desk: The first shipment of Hilsa fish to India as a gesture of goodwill from Bangladesh on the occasion of Durga Puja was stuck in Benapole port on Sunday.