UNB: In the wake of its debacle in Sunday’s polls, BNP has convened an emergency meeting of the candidates who contested the 11th national election with its symbol the ‘Sheaf of Paddy’. The meeting will be held at 10am on Thursday at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Earlier…
Tech Explorist: Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, and yes, it’s as weird as it sounds. It works through a…
Suzanne Moore, Guardian columnist/The Guardian, UK From the Presidents Club to Christine Blasey Ford, it’s not been a great year. But there were glimmers of hope, such as in Ireland Apale, slouching Harvey Weinstein has so far escaped criminal charges for the allegations of sexual assault against him. A “millionaire” is given a three-year jail…
Tech Explorist: For the first ever time, MIT scientists have quantified the temporal coherence (lifetime) of graphene qubits- meaning to what extent it can keep up a special state that enables it to speak to two coherent states at the same time. As of late, specialists have been incorporating graphene-based materials into superconducting quantum computing…
UNB: Six suspected members of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir were arrested with improvised bombs and Jihadi books in South Keraniganj on Monday night. “We suspect that they gathered there to carry out subversive activities,” said Shah Zaman, the officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj Police Station. He said they raided Hasnabad Housing building…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina paid tribute to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman yesterday following her party’s total victory in the 11th national election, reported The Daily Star. The prime minister placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh ODI skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza became the first ever active international cricketer to join parliament when he was elected from Narail-2 in the eleventh national election on Sunday, reports The Daily Star. Mashrafe, who was greeted by garlands from supporters after winning by a landslide, informed that although his new responsibilities will…
UNB: Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) reopened yesterday after 14-day vacation for winter and Christmas. The academic activities of the university resumed in the morning, said a press release signed by deputy-registrar Yunus Ali. Earlier on December 26, the administrative activities were resumed. The students have started returning to the campus.
BSS: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has collected Taka 75 crore from the two mobile operator companies – Banglalink Limited and Robi Axiata Limited – as their outstanding value added tax (VAT). Out of the total amount, Banglalink paid Taka 47 crore while Robi paid Taka 28 crore for increase in their respective wealth…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Da, the student wing of BNP, has not organised any programme celebrating its 40th anniversary of formation. It party usually holds events to mark the occasion every year, reports BDnews. The doors of the organisation’s central office in Naya Paltan were found locked yesterday morning. Former President Ziaur Rahman…