All rise…and run! Leopard in Indian court

    Straits Times Employees at a courthouse in India had a fright on Friday after a young leopard was spotted prowling around the building, authorities said. “Seeing the leopard the court staff ran out of the room and locked it from outside and informed us,” G.A. Zala, a forestry official in the western state of Gujarat,…

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      Doors are slamming shut for Huawei around the world

      CNN Huawei is coming under pressure in two more key European markets — the latest in a series of problems the Chinese company faces around the world. Telecommunications firm Orange has ruled out using Huawei products in its core 5G network in France, and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom says it’s reviewing purchases of Huawei equipment. The…

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        How a baby’s gender is determined?

        Tech Explorist Medicinal scientists at Melbourne‘s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute have made another revelation about how a baby’s gender is determined— it’s about the X-Y chromosomes as well as includes a ‘regulator’ that increments or diminishes the action of genes which choose on the off chance that we end up male or female. Hudson Institute…

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          Building an AI to predict if you carry a killer on your skin

          Eurek Alert Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous colonizer of healthy human skin, but it is also a notorious source of serious nosocomial infections with indwelling devices and surgical procedures such as hip replacements. It has not been known whether all members of the S. epidermidis population colonizing the skin asymptomatically are capable of causing such…

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            Exodus: the story of a people in peril

            DOT Desk Internationally acclaimed Australian photographer Patrick Brown has displayed photographs of the Rohingya influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh that began over a year ago. Their present situation at the crammed huts in his solo photography exhibition titled ‘EXODUS’ ongoing at La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka, reports The New Age. Organised jointly by…

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              Digital space offers new ground for campaigns to cover

              DOT Desk From new to heavyweight candidates contesting in the upcoming national election scheduled for December 30, all political campaigns are seen to have a digital presence these days, reports Dhaka Tribune. The pre-election campaign has brought vibrancy to every corner of the country with debates over tea at tea stalls — both in urban…

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                e-monitoring launched at govt schools

                DOT Desk Directorate of Primary Education (DPE), in association with Save the Children in Bangladesh, launched an e-monitoring system at all primary-level government schools yesterday at a programme in Dhaka. Education officers can upload inspection summary and analysis of primary schools they visited on the DPE website instantly through a smartphone app, which will be…

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                  The country’s first medical resort is in Sreemangal

                  Monsur Iqbal, Moulvibazar Correspondent For the first time in the country for senior citizens of sixty plus special medical resorts ‘Leisure’ – Amar Anondo Bhuban . The resort built in natural landscaped areas of Sreemangal in Moulvibazar is not a traditional one; Rather than staying from one week to thirty years, you can stay in…

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                    Stockbrokers, investors lament 8yrs of market decay

                    DOT Desk Stockbrokers and investors have expressed their disappointment over the country’s capital market that has been suffering a downward trend since the year of market crash (2010-11), eroding the capital of thousands of investors, reports The New Age. Dhaka Stock Exchange Brokers’ Association expressed its dismay to the market regulator, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange…

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