DOT Desk Members of Bangladesh Army in a special drive detained three persons along with arms and ammunition from Tarachari area of Bilaichari Upazila in Rangamati, reports The Daily Sun. The arrestees were identified as Bonkim Chanda Tanchangya, 45, Pavel Tanchangya, 22, and Zotin Kanti Tanchangya, 45. They are members of the regional political party…
Kevin Martin/Gulf News It isn’t always in the furnace fire or the maelstrom of oceans that heroism is born People sometimes ask, “What were you doing in …?” And they name a year. To be honest, if I can remember what I was doing yesterday it would constitute a major victory in ‘memory recall’ but…
Desert News The world today is full of division, conflict, anger, crime, corruption, death and disease. Daily news accounts catalog the worst of these. Mass killers invade gathering places, including schools, and kill indiscriminately. Governments oppress. Religious believers worldwide are persecuted and, in some cases, killed for their faith. Political dialog is tinged with hatred….
DOT Desk The dredging of inland waterways is set to come under real-time monitoring as part of a government plan to develop a web-based system to track all such schemes, reports The Financial Express. Shipping ministry is working to initiate a year-long project to develop software in order to monitor public and private dredgers working…
UNB A construction worker died and two others were injured as the roof of an old building collapsed on them at Bheronbaria village of Nalciti upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Rubel Hossain, 22, son of Md Motahar Khan, resident of Kamdabpur village of the upazila. Abdus Salam, Rampasha union parishad chairman,…
Science Alert The fall from grace wasn’t exactly swift, but it was stunning. Among stem cell researchers, Piero Anversa’s work trying to regrow the human heart in the 1990s and 2000s was legendary. That was then. In October, his former institutions, Harvard Medical School and its affiliate Brigham and Women’s Hospital, asked journals to retract…
Javed Anwer/Daily O, India The problem is that our belief in the goodness of technology blindsided us to the devil inside us humans. As a technology journalist for nearly a decade now, I am more used to writing about gadgets, new technology, new games, new apps. It’s the new iPhone that grabs my attention and…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Dhaka city dwellers are leaving the city for the countryside en masse ahead of the upcoming general election on Sunday. The rush for home began on Thursday, reported The Daily Star, as both Friday and Saturday off make an ideal three-day holiday to visit their countryside homes. Many of the dwellers…
Tech Explorist Since decades, scientists are trying to discover- How do hair follicles grow from a sea of seemingly uniform skin cells during embryonic development? Now, Yale scientists have finally found the answer. They examined the molecular and cellular events that occur prior to visible evidence of hair follicle formation. For this, they combined the…
The Art Newspaper Moscow residents angry about the reconstruction of their neighbourhood have taken a page from the playbook of Western protestors and started a Change.org petition calling on the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art to end its sponsorship deal with the Russian property developer PIK. Garage was founded by Dasha Zhukova and the billionaire…