3 held with arms, ammo in Rangamati

    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…

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      Heroes are born everywhere

      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…

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        Waterway dredging to come under real-time monitoring

        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…

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          Worker killed as roof collapses in Jhalokathi

          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,…

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            Dhaka dwellers heading home to vote

            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…

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              How do hair follicles grow? Study untangles the science

              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…

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