DOT Desk: With the national election over, people involved in the tourism sector have heaved a big sigh of relief. This is, after all, the peak season for tourists willing to explore the natural beauty of the country, reports The Independent. Shiblul Azam Quereshi, director of the Tour Operators’ Association of Bangladesh (TOAB), said that…
CNN: Apple’s problems in China are piling pressure on the company to find a way to grow in India, the world’s hottest market for smartphones. But with the latest iPhones costing more than half the average annual wage, Apple (AAPL) faces an uphill battle to take a much bigger share of India’s market than its…
Tech Explorist: In a new study by Durham University, astrophysicists suggest that our solar system could get blasted into space after a newly-predicted collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy. The study also predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years’ time. The catastrophic coming together with the…
Sarah Halzack and Andrea Felsted/Bloomberg LVMH and other giants of luxury fashion face the same crosscurrents that resulted in the iPhone maker’s gloomy sales forecast. Investors have been on high alert for any indication that a changing macroeconomic picture is taking a toll on consumer companies. And now Apple Inc. has sent up just such…
APP: For years, researchers at the University of Illinois have been trying to find out whether it is possible to genetically modify a crop to boost its growth. In results published in Science on Thursday, they confirmed they had been successful making tobacco plants 40 percent bigger thanks to a “genetic hack” or “shortcut.” The…
Noor Majid of DOT Nepal is all set to launch its first domestically-built satellites by mid-May next. In terms of technical development and crucial component building phase, Nepalese scientists and technicians will develop crucial knowledge through this process. Two Nepalese scientists, educated from a renown University in Tokyo, are now overseeing this project. Quoting technical…
DOT Desk: The first bonded, cross-border, land-air transshipment from Bangladesh departed Indian airport of Kolkata, reports The Daily Observer. Expo Freight Limited (EFL) introduced a tailor-made logistics solution to handle such cargo transshipment between the two neighbouring countries, said a press release of the company. The EFL offices in Bangladesh and India worked jointly in…
DOT Desk: Many think public universities are meant for only providing education. Not exactly! These days, students come up with their basic health needs and university medical centres are supposed to address those, reports The Daily Observer. A few days back, a female student of Dhaka University shared in social what she experienced at the…
Shekhar Iyer, Former senior associate editor of Hindustan Times and political editor of Deccan Herald/Money Control.Com The BJP’s Mission 123 is a plan aimed at winning as many seats as possible in the 123 Lok Sabha seats that the party could not win in 2014 despite the ‘Modi wave’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the…
Andrew Kahn/Chicago Tribune As mainstream superhero films go, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is an odd duck, visually flamboyant and tonally chutzpadik, snarking repeatedly about intellectual property law and the perils of franchisedom. Though it’s steeped in comic book lore — and winks at the films, television programs and other subsidiary products — it rarely feels…