Space capsule lands at Peterborough Cathedral

    Itv: The space capsule which carried astronaut Tim Peake to and from the International Space Station will be on display at Peterborough Cathedral from August 11. The Soyuz capsule travelled at 17000 miles an hour as it carried Yuri Malenchenko, Tim Kopra and Tim Peake on their Principia mission December 2015 to June 2016.Visitors to…

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      RMG workers stage demo for Eid bonus, arrears

      Kabir Humayun: Workers of several ready-made garment factories yesterday staged demonstration in Dhaka demanding disbursement of salary and festival bonus seven days before the Eid-ul- Azha, likely to be observed on August 22. Hundreds of workers and their leaders gathered in front of the Jatiya Press Club around 11am to raise their demand, reports UNB….

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        Disruptive technologies are reshaping the world

        Wajahat Qazi/WION, India: As disruptive technologies shake up and rejig the business and commercial landscape, upend business and financial models thereof, somewhat exponentially, established and incumbent firms are finding it difficult to “catch up”, so to speak. (It may be pointed out here that disruptive technology was a term coined by coined by Harvard academic…

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          Arundhati, Chomsky, two others demand release of Shahidul

          Sayeed Muhammad: Fo-ur internationally celebrated authors and intellectuals yesterday demanded immediate release of acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam, who was arrested on Sunday night. Indian writer Arundhati Roy, Canadian author Naomi Klein, American writer, philosopher Noam Chomsky and Indian intellectual Vijay Prashad made then call through a joint statement, reports New Age. ‘Documentation and criticism are…

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