EurekAlert: The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate about their origins. The dark faces of the moons resemble the primitive asteroids of the outer solar system, suggesting the moons might be asteroids caught long ago in Mars’ gravitational pull. But the shapes and angles…
Eisa Khan Ayoobi, PhD candidate in government and public policy/Aljazeera The NUG is struggling with containing the Taliban and addressing internal divisions. During this year’s holy day of Ashoura, residents of Hazara-populated neighbourhoods of Kabul had to take security into their own hands. After a series of deadly bombings shook Afghanistan over the past month,…
AFP: Five people were killed yesterday when an apartment block collapsed in New Delhi, crushing residents beneath mountains of concrete, in the latest building accident to hit India. Rescuers combing the wreckage with sniffer dogs in Delhi’s north pulled out at least a dozen people who were trapped beneath the rubble. “We can confirm the…
Hindustan Times: A Japanese start-up is to send spacecraft to the moon in a deal signed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the Tokyo-based firm said Wednesday. Private lunar exploration company ispace said it would blast a lander and rovers towards the moon on a SpaceX rocket on two separate missions. The spaceware will first orbit the…
Arab News: At least 12 Tuareg civilians died Tuesday in an attack in eastern Mali, a region hit by chronic unrest between local tribes and jihadist militants, sources said. About 200 people, many of them civilians from the Fulani and Tuareg tribes, have been killed in the area this year. Militants claiming allegiance to Daesh…
Desk Report: Overall investment crossed 31 percent of GDP for the first time in Bangladesh’s history last fiscal year thanks to a spike in public spending on mega infrastructure projects now being implemented. In fiscal 2017-18, overall investment to gross domestic product ratio stood at 31.23 percent, which was 30.51 percent the previous year, according…
Desk Report: All the licensed recruiting agencies of the country from now on can send workers to Malaysia under the G-to-G Plus system. The decision was taken at a meeting of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam with Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran in Putrajaya on Tuesday. Nurul Islam led a five-member…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a latest move, Qualcomm in a legal filing has accused Apple of stealing its chip secrets and gave it to Intel costing the company billions of dollars. In the lawsuit, Qualcomm asserted that Apple “engaged in a years-long campaign of false promises, stealth, and subterfuge designed to steal Qualcomm’s confidential information and…
Desk Report: Bangladesh has decided to import an additional 340 megawatts of electricity from India under G2G through Surjomoni-Cumilla north link. Power Division Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus disclosed the decision yesterday to journalists after emerging from the 15th Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee meeting on issues relating to the energy sector. The meeting, also attended by…
Desk Report: The authorities yesterday suspended 11 Chittagong University students, belonging to Bangladesh Chhatra League, on various charges. Proctor Ali Asgar Chowdhury disclosed the decision at a press conference. Mahmudul Hasan Rupak of English department was suspended for one year for beating a journalist on September 10. Sabbir Hossain and Rajibul Alam of history department…