TWion News: he spectacular fireworks show on Sydney’s harbour that rang in 2019 and dazzled spectators around the world was picture perfect, except for one element — it got the year wrong. More than 1.5 million people packed the harbour front of Australia’s largest city to watch the extravaganza, and noticed a signage beamed onto…
Reuters: The top U.S general in Afghanistan told NATO troops on Tuesday to prepare themselves to deal with “positive processes or negative consequences” as peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban to end a 17-year war gain momentum. General Scott Miller, who commands U.S. forces and the NATO-led non-combat Resolution Support (RS) mission in…
BSS: The sweeping bone-chilling cold wave continued affecting normal life for the fifth consecutive day yesterday everywhere, including riverine char areas, of all eight districts in the northern region. The district and upazila administrations have intensified distribution of blankets, allocated by the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief in favour of every district administration, among…
Wion News: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Arab countries viewed Israel as an “indispensable ally” fighting Iran and the Islamic State group. That evaluation, he told Brazil’s Globo TV during a visit to Rio, has caused “a revolution in relations with the Arab world.” The comments came as Israel has stepped up air…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Garment workers staged demonstration on a road in Hatirjheel area of Dhaka after two of their fellows died in a road accident in Malibagh area yesterday afternoon. The agitating workers also vandalised 40 vehicles and torched two others protesting the accident, reports The Daily Star. Two garment workers — Meem, 13,…
Science Alert: Anyone who’s seen a gecko will likely know they can climb walls. But these common lizards can also run across water nearly as fast as they can move on solid ground. Yet while we know how geckos scale smooth vertical surfaces using countless tiny hairs on their feet called setae, how they manage…
BBC: US Strategic Command, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal, has apologised for a tweet that said it was ready to “drop something much, much bigger” than New York’s Times Square ball.The message, posted on New Year’s Eve, was accompanied by a video showing a B-2 bomber dropping weapons. Strategic Command later deleted the tweet, saying…
Eurek Alert: Using observations from the ALMA radio observatory in Chile, researchers have observed, for the first time, a warped disk around an infant protostar that formed just several tens of thousands of years ago. This implies that the misalignment of planetary orbits in many planetary systems–including our own–may be caused by distortions in the…
UNB: National cricketer Sabbir Rahman, serving a six-month international ban, says he is taking the next edition of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) very seriously. “This year’s BPL is important for me,” the right-handed top-order batsman said on Tuesday. “I will try to play my natural game and hope that it will help me get back…
Tech Explorist: The planets in our solar system orbit the sun in planes that are at most around seven degrees offset from the equator of the sun itself. It has been known for quite a while that numerous extrasolar systems have planets that are not arranged in a single plane or with the equator of…