9Gag: According to The Siberian Times, scientists from Russia’s Northern-Eastern Federal University alongside the South Korean SOOAM Biotech Research Foundation are opening a research lab in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. The $5.9 million lab will be a “world class paleo-genetic scientific hub”. Experts say the centre will aim “to study extinct animals from living…
Hossen Sohel: A major airport that was cut off when a huge typhoon smashed through its sole access road was being evacuated yesterday, as Japan grappled with devastation caused by its most powerful storm in a quarter of a century, reports AFP. Boats were ferrying stranded passengers from Kansai International Airport — one of the…
The Straits Times: Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck in March 2011, triggering a tsunami that killed some 18,000 people and the world’s worst nuclear…
Advocate Mohammad Rayhan Uddin, Supreme Court of Bangladesh & Judges’ Court, Chittagong Though legal education is ancient, it is a prestigious one. At present, the demand for LL.B. (Honors), LL.M. yet increased especially since the separation of judiciary from the executive organ. There is a declaration that only those who have legal knowledge are entitled…
NDTV: Sacked Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested yesterday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said. Mr Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banaskantha Police, were initially detained for questioning in the case. Shortly after…
Hossen Sohel: Efforts to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement as a three-country pact were due to resume yesterday when Canada and the US sit down at the negotiating table in a politically charged atmosphere, reports AFP. But the talks will be dogged by President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to leave Canada on the…
Desk Report: The prices of most of the stocks on bourses saw an upward trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday as investors were showing their buying appetite on sector-wise stocks, reports Financial Express. After 30 minutes of trading, the DSEX advanced more than 31 points while the the CASPI of Chattogram bourse rose…
NDTV: Google that came into existence 20 years back with its first product Search engine from a garage today has seven products that are used by more than a billion people every month. The exact date of the company’s founding is up for debate — even for those who are in the business of providing…
Joanna Fuertes/Daily O, India Fueled by support from the Korean government, sheet masks and glass skin have taken over the world Kimchi, K-pop, and K-dramas. Welcome to Hallyu 2.0, in which everyone in the West is losing their minds over all things Korean. Playing a starring role is a glorious onslaught of Korean beauty products,…
M Humayun Kabir: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday told the trial court to punish her as much as it wants, punish her as long as it wants as there is “no justice here”. The three times former premier said this after appearing before Special Judge Court-5 set for the first time at old central jail…