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Pesticide-producing GM eggplant fails farmers in Bangladesh

May 15, 2016 - Pesticide-producing GM eggplant fails farmers in Bangladesh

Sunday, May 15, 2016 by: PF LouisTags: GM eggplant, Bangladesh, crop failures

The Bangledesh eggplant Bt project

Muddying the waters of reality and truth

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GMO eggplant fails to resist pests in Bangladesh

April 24, 2014 - GMO eggplant fails to resist pests in Bangladesh

Thursday, April 24, 2014 by: L.J. Devon, Staff WriterTags: GMOs, eggplant, pest resistance

Genetic Bt manipulations make eggplants insecticidal but only target one kind of pest

Village farmers being told to increase pesticide use as new GMO eggplant fails

Natural eggplant is useful in Ayurvedic medicine but becomes like poison when genetically modified

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Bangladesh power grid COLLAPSES, leaving 140 million people without power

October 09, 2022 -

Nearly the entire country, the AFP News Agency reported, suffered a blackout due to the collapse. Officials from the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) said a power transmission failure in the eastern part of the country tripped power plants nationwide, cutting off power to the entire country, including the capital city of Dhaka.

BPDB official Shameem Hasan announced that engineers are investigating "glitches" in the power system. There have ...

140M People left without electricity in Bangladesh after national grid failure

October 05, 2022 -

Shameem Hasan, spokesman for the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), confirmed the grid collapse to Al Jazeera. He added that apart from some areas in the country's northwest, "the rest of the country is without power." According to Hasan's estimate, about 75 to 80 percent of Bangladesh is affected by the power failure.

BPDB officials said power transmission failed somewhere in the eastern part of Bangladesh, causing electricity supply ...

Turmeric from Bangladesh sometimes contains lead-laced chemical compounds, study finds

March 01, 2021 -

Turmeric producers add lead for color

Previous studies implicated turmeric as a potential source of lead exposure. Manufacturers are said to add lead chromate, a yellow pigment commonly used to color toys and furniture, during the polishing of turmeric. The researchers examined the practice of adding yellow pigments and assessed the factors affecting this practice across Bangladesh's supply chain.

To that end, they identified and visited the nine leading districts ...

New bat virus emerges in Bangladesh, mimicking deadly Nipah: Was gain-of-function involved?

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The diagnostic dead-end and a technological breakthrough

Between 2022 and 2023, five patients were hospitalized across Bangladesh with terrifyingly familiar symptoms: high fever, disorientation, difficulty breathing, and signs of profound brain inflammation. Given the season and their history of consuming raw date palm sap, physicians strongly suspected Nipah virus, a pathogen that has sparked fatal outbreaks in the region since 2001. Yet, ...

Bangladesh government admits Bt eggplant hasn't passed safety tests and ignores GMO labeling law

September 29, 2014 - Bangladesh government admits Bt eggplant hasn't passed safety tests and ignores GMO labeling law

Monday, September 29, 2014 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writerTags: Bt eggplant, GMO testing, Bangladesh

Research conducted by Monsanto subsidiary showed Bt brinjal destroys immunity and vital organs

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Just as we’ve been warning: Turmeric from Bangladesh sometimes contains lead-laced chemical compounds, study finds

September 30, 2020 -

“People are unknowingly consuming something that could cause major health issues,” explained Jenna Forsyth, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment and lead author of the study. “We know adulterated turmeric is a source of lead exposure, and we have to do something about it.”

The team investigated why women and children in rural Bangladesh have elevated levels of lead in their blood.

“We looked at potential exposures ...

GM eggplants send Bangladesh farmers into poverty as they fail for second year in a row

March 26, 2015 - GM eggplants send Bangladesh farmers into poverty as they fail for second year in a row

Thursday, March 26, 2015 by: Jennifer Lea ReynoldsTags: GM eggplants, Bangladesh farmers, crop failures

"It's not us, it's you" mentality exists among GM sapling distributor

Despite obvious crop failings, GMO industry looks the other way

Elsewhere, some anti-GMO success as past court rulings deem GM eggplant trials unsafe

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Bangladesh garment factory owners demand fashion retailers help shoulder costs amid economic slowdown and mandated wage hike

November 14, 2023 -

The wage increase of 56 percent is the first notable wage increase for the industry's workers in five years and raises wages to 12,500 Bangladeshi takas a month ($113) beginning on Dec. 1. (Related: Dark side of glam: Models expose sexual harassment, dangerous working conditions in fashion industry.)

This wage increase was agreed upon by a panel of factory owners, garment factory union leaders and government officials after the government turned down the initial ...

Genetically modified eggplant a massive failure in Bangladesh as crops fail for second year in a row

November 23, 2015 - Genetically modified eggplant a massive failure in Bangladesh as crops fail for second year in a row

Monday, November 23, 2015 by: David Gutierrez, staff writerTags: GM eggplant, Bt brinjal, crop failures

Poor quality, poor yields

"Worthless crop"

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Former leaders of Pakistan, Bangladesh say U.S. Deep State led COUPS to oust them for not supporting Ukraine war efforts

August 21, 2024 -

At least two former leaders of major South Asian countries have come forward in recent days to accuse U.S. authorities of committing covert regime change operations in the two aforementioned countries.

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, who is rotting away in prison "on a perverse conviction that proves Khan's assertion," to quote Great Game India, and former Prime Minister Sheik Hasina of Bangladesh, who fled to India following a violent coup that ...

Biden sends $15 million to Bangladesh despite its links to terrorist organizations and history of corruption and human rights abuses

February 21, 2024 -

The $15 million comes from the Enabling Environment for Climate Resiliency Activity program, a government program for enhancing climate resilience.

Bangladesh, a majority-Muslim South Asian nation, has been tagged by the State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) as a significant source of anti-Western terrorist group activity.

In OSAC's 2019 report, Bangladesh was noted for having historic ties with several very dangerous ...

A Google-funded ‘fact check’ team appears to be a handful of potentially non-existent Indians in an impoverished town near Bangladesh

June 08, 2022 - Last week Instagram notified me that a viral post I had published was "fact checked" by a group called ‘The Healthy Indian Project’. My mother is from Bombay, and I did lose 40lbs last year, but I didn’t think they had created an entire unit just for me. So, I decided to find out who this group is. My findings are bemusing.

(Article by Raheem Kassam republished from RaheemKassam.Substack.com)

The Healthy Indian Project (‘THIP’) appears to have started as a fitness and lifestyle ...

More “folk medicine” holds up under scientific scrutiny: The fruit of an evergreen tree in Bangladesh found to reduce fever, pain, inflammation

January 10, 2018 -

For the purposes of their study, the researchers obtained aqueous and ethanolic extracts from ground, dried Yellow Myrobalan fruits. These extracts were measured at 200mg/kg, 400mg/kg, and 600mg/kg that were administered to albino mice.

A carrageenan-induced paw edema test was carried out to determine the anti-inflammatory qualities of the fruit extracts. The mice were divided into eight groups of five; the first group was given a normal saline solution, the second incomethacin, ...

Risk for skin lesions increases with low-dose exposure to arsenic in drinking water (press release)

August 15, 2006 - Risk for skin lesions increases with low-dose exposure to arsenic in drinking water (press release)

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 by: NewsTargetTags: health news, Natural News, nutritionThe Mailman School team of researchers evaluated the relationship between arsenic exposure from drinking water and premalignant skin lesions over the course of three years. Participants were evaluated for arsenic exposure based on well-water arsenic concentration and usage. "Because of the wide ...

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Pesticide-producing GM eggplant fails farmers in Bangladesh

Genetically modified eggplant a massive failure in Bangladesh as crops fail for second year in a row

GMO eggplant fails to resist pests in Bangladesh

The top 3 health benefits of eggplant

Genetically-modified eggplant found to be unsafe for human consumption, environment

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Columbia University receives $16.9 million NIEHS award to study arsenic in ground water (press release)

September 28, 2006 - Columbia University receives $16.9 million NIEHS award to study arsenic in ground water (press release)

Thursday, September 28, 2006 by: NewsTargetTags: health news, Natural News, nutritionBuilding upon Columbia University's SBRP research progress over the past six years in conjunction with a previous, $11 million award, the highly competitive grant renewal will enable this multi-disciplinary team of scientists to conduct research concerning anthropogenic and naturally ...