UNB A member of the Ansar was choked to death in Daulatpur Upazila’s Farakpur village. Khalil Mondal, 54, a native of the village, was scheduled to carry out election duty as an assistant platoon commander. He had an altercation with his neighbour Jadu Mia around 10am for not including the latter in election duty, police…
Science Alert Back in August, the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) was surprised to learn that a leak was responsible for a slight loss in air pressure aboard the station. After investigating, they learned that the cause was a small hole in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that had docked with the ISS. While…
Tech Explorist NASA’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is closing its memorable New Year’s flyby target, the most distant world at any point examined, a frozen relic of the nearby solar system some 6.4 billion kilometers away. The spacecraft’s nearest way to deal with this primitive space rock comes on January 1 at 12:33 am ET…
Kevin McKenna, Observer columnist/The Guardian,UK A few dozen boat people desperate to reach our shores are met with hostility. Where is compassion? Sometimes you can smell the stench of racism before you are actually upon it. As a child, I recall walking on the sands of one of Scotland’s most popular beaches and wondering why…
DOT Desk: The House of Jatiya Oikyafront candidate from Brahmanbaria-3 was attacked, vandalized, looted allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League men yesterday, reports The Daily Star. Two of his cars were also torched during the attack, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent. The candidate, Khaled Hossain Mahbub Shaymal, claimed that the BCL men exploded crude bombs and captured…
Science Alert Bacteria are slippery little suckers. They evolve rapidly, developing resistance to antibiotics and therefore becoming increasingly difficult to deal with. For the first time, researchers in 2018 caught on film one of the mechanisms the microbes use for this speedy evolution. Two Vibrio cholerae bacteria – the pathogen responsible for cholera – sit…
Rahat Islam of DOT Expressing its gratitude to all those who voted for it, the ruling Awami League said the frequency of violence is significantly lesser than the elections of the past. AL leader Abdur Rahman was speaking at a press briefing at the party president’s Dhanmondi office in Dhaka yesterday after voting in the…
DOT Desk Two children have been killed in a fire that broke out at a homestead in the Matuail village area of Dhaka’s Jatrabari, reports The Daily Observer. The fire broke out at the homestead around 2:45am on Saturday, said Fire Service Control Room official Md Mizanur Rahman. “An initial investigation suggests a mosquito coil…
Ruma Paul, Krishna N. Das, Zeba Siddiqui & Editing by Martin Howell and David Evans/Reuters Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina considers being called authoritarian by the western media a “badge of honour”, the leader’s son told Reuters on the eve of a national election on Sunday. Hasina, who is widely expected to win a third…
Mohammad Alamgir Mia speaks to DOT The vote casting started at sharp 8.00 a.m. in the constituency 183, Dhaka-10, where the Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina casted her vote. She reached at the polling centre before the scheduled time for casting vote and she had to wait approximately for eight minutes for inaugurate…