NASA’s Juno mission halfway to Jupiter science

    Tech Explorist Launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. It then started collecting data in earnest on Aug. 27, 2016. During these flybys, Juno’s suite of sensitive science instruments probes beneath the planet’s obscuring cloud cover and studies Jupiter’s auroras to learn more…

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      Nation set to celebrate Victory Day tomorrow

      DOT Desk The nation is set to celebrate the Victory Day tomorrow (December 16), marking the most precious day when the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation. Forty-six years back on December 16 in 1971, Bangladesh was born as an independent country under the leadership of the…

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        Green thumb spruces up B’desh one tree at a time

        Hossen Sohel of DOT Ohid Sarder prises a rusted nail from a tree and drops it into his bucket, another eyesore scrubbed from the countryside as he embarks on a one-man mission to clean up Bangladesh, reports AFP. The 53-year-old self-professed tree hugger has been riding his bicycle across the country, in a grassroots effort…

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          JaPa still in a dither ahead of polls

          Maj Gen (Retd.) Abdur Rashid Speaks for DOT Jatiya Party (JaPa) is fielding its own candidates in some constituencies, even after negotiations with the Awami League-led Grand Alliance over seat-sharing ahead of the general elections. It is not a pleasant matter to go against decision of the alliance and it causes an image deficit. JaPa…

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            Veteran filmmaker Amjad Hoaasin dies

            Sayeed Muhammad Celebrated filmmaker Amjad Hossain breathed his last at a Bangkok hospital yesterday, at the age of 76. He was declared dead around 3pm Bangladesh time, reporters The Daily Star referring to SA Haque Alik, general secretary of Directors’ Guild of Bangladesh. Amjad was flown off to Bangkok on November 28 and admitted to…

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              Doubt still exists

              Syed Ishtiaq Reza In the war for votes, it is not unsurprising to see candidates gain and lose ground; after all, the battle for the election has begun, there are campaigning going on everywhere, we can all see it. In Bangladeshi elections, it is usually a fight between two symbols – the Boat and the…

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