Abu Hayat Mahmud: A two-day Biotechnology Fair 2018 began at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theater in the capital yesterday. The fair started with 68 stalls of biotech goods and innovations showcased by students from different public-private universities, colleges, schools and other organizations. Minister of Science and Technology, Yeafesh Osman, launched the fair in the morning…
Reuters: British Airways was forced to apologize on Friday after the credit card details of hundreds of thousands of its customers were stolen over a two-week period in the worst ever attack on its website and app. The airline discovered on Wednesday that bookings made between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5 had been infiltrated in…
BBC: All air, from arid deserts to humid cities, contains water vapour – globally, an estimated 3,100 cubic miles (12,900 cubic kilometres) of water is suspended as humidity in the air around us. That’s more than all the water in Lake Superior, the largest lake in North America (11,600 cubic km), or five Lake Victoria’s…
AFP: The Iraqi parliament will hold an emergency session today to discuss a water contamination crisis which has triggered protests in which eight people have died in the southern city Basra. Lawmakers would “discuss the problems, the solutions and the latest situation” in the city, where anger over poor public services has boiled over after the…
Desk Report: The government is considering a plan to convert the offshore Sangu gas field into an underground storage to store the imported LNG, reports the financial express. Storing natural gas in sub-surface geological formation is commonly known as underground storage. Under this process, natural gas is stored underground in geological structures whose properties allow…
Kabir Humayun: The current efforts of different political parties to forge a national unity for holding a fair election will soon turn into a political unity, BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said. “Country’s people, BNP-led 20-party alliance, Jukta Front under the leadership of Badruddoza Chowdhury and Dr Kamal Hossain and the left-leaning parties’…
Wionews: Former US President Barack Obama will warn Democratic voters in a speech on Friday that the stakes are too high to sit out November’s elections when the party is seeking to wrest control of Congress from President Donald Trump’s Republicans. Obama has largely avoided the spotlight since Trump succeeded him last year. But Friday’s…
Hossen Sohel: Talks between the United States and Canada will continue after the two sides made “good progress” in their effort to rewrite NAFTA, as Washington was poised for a possible escalation in its trade war with China, reports AFP. Discussions with Canada — the largest US trading partner — seem to be on track…
Hossen Sohel: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis landed in Kabul yesterday for an unannounced visit to war-torn Afghanistan, adding his weight to a flurry of diplomatic efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table, reports AFP. His trip comes a little more than a year after President Donald Trump unveiled a revamped strategy for…
Anadolu Agency: US President Donald Trump yesterday confirmed that recent cuts in funding for Palestinians are intended to pressure their leaders to make political concessions, reported CBS News. Speaking in a “conference call with Jewish faith leaders and rabbis”, Trump said he would not give money to Palestinians until they agree to make a peace…