12 parks closed in western Canada due to risk of fires. Authorities in the western Canadian province of Alberta battling devastating wildfires have closed twelve local parks ahead of the long holiday weekend, fearing fresh flames, officials said Friday.Alberta has declared a state of emergency and asked for foreign aid with more than 800,000 hectares […]

After SpaceX, NASA taps Bezos’s Blue Origin to build Moon lander.Two years after awarding Elon Musk’s SpaceX a contract to ferry astronauts to the surface of the Moon, NASA on Friday announced it had chosen Blue Origin, a rival space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, to build a second lunar lander.Blue Origin’s lander was […]

JS body for competing transmission’ lines, substations for’ RNPP.The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology Ministry today urged the authorities concerned to complete transmission line and substation expansion works for smooth transmission of power from Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP). The 18th meeting of the Standing Committee was held at the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) […]