Reuters: Vietnam has placed orders for Russian weapons and military services worth more than $1 billion, Russia’s TASS news agency has reported, as the Southeast Asian country bolsters its defense capability. “We have a portfolio of orders worth more than $1 billion,” TASS cited Dmitry Shugayev, head of Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, as…
NDTV: Aero India – Asia’s largest military aviation exhibition – will be held in Bengaluru in February next year, the government said Saturday. The announcement comes weeks after controversy over reports that the prestigious air show hosted by Bengaluru for over two decades might be shifted out of the city. “The Government has decided to…
Daily Sabah: Despite significant increase in literacy rates in the last 50 years, UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicate there still is 750 million illiterate adults in the world. The latest data presented in a fact sheet showed that two-thirds of those that couldn’t read were women with 473 million while the figure in men stood at…
Sayeed Muhammad: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that Awami League leaders and activists are now finding ways to fleeing as they became detached from the people and politically ‘bankrupt’. The BNP leader made the comment while speaking at opinion exchange meeting with freedom fighters of Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal, freedom fighters wing of…
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’…