Al Jazeera: The US military force that oversees the country’s nuclear arsenal has sparked outrage when it tweeted it was ready to drop something “much, much bigger” than the traditional New Year’s Eve crystal ball in New York and showing a video of an aircraft releasing bombs. “#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping…
NTV Online: The 116th birth anniversary of famous poet and litterateur Jasimuddin, popularly known as ‘Palli Kabi’, is being observed in Faridpur on Tuesday. The poet was born on this day of 1903 in his maternal uncle’s house in Tambulkhana village in Faridpur district, reports the UNB. As part of the celebration, Deputy Commissioner Begum…
DOT Desk: Leading Indian newspapers editorially commented today on the outcome of parliamentary elections in Bangladesh saying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s return to power is “good news” for relations with India, but cautioned against her government’s “authoritarian” strait, reports The Daily Star. Hindustan Times termed Awami League’s landslide victory in parliamentary polls as “stunning” and…
Science Alert: After Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the scientific community by announcing last month that he had edited the genes of human babies, he mysteriously vanished. And now he’s been found. The New York Times reports that guards are holding He in a guesthouse at his university, the Southern University of Science and Technology….
DOT Desk: Bangladesh will have to go through the group stages of the World T20 in 2020, with the likes of Sri Lanka and six other low-ranked teams based the latest T20I rankings, according to a press release from the International Cricket Council, reports The Daily Star. The ICC yesterday confirmed that the top eight…
DOT Desk: Handling a chaotic and vulnerable banking sector along with a huge amount of bad loans is going to be the biggest challenge for the new government in this year (2019), the country’s leading economists warned, reports The Financial Express BD. At the same time, stimulating the private sector investment and reforming the tax…
Science Alert: Isotretinoin, a form of vitamin A that has been prescribed to treat acne for decades, changes the microbiome of the skin to more closely resemble the skin of people without acne, according to a new study. The study sheds light on how isotretinoin (commonly known by its former brand name Accutane) works and…
Simon Johnson, Former chief economist of the IMF, is a professor at MIT Sloan & a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics/Project Syndicate A chaotic Brexit could do great damage to ordinary people, as was the case with Britain’s self-ejection from the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System in 1992….
Al Jazeera: Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have marched for an annual rally in Hong Kong with activists decrying the government’s “unprecedented” ban on pro-independence symbols. The Civil Human Rights Front, an umbrella group of pro-democracy parties and groups, said on Tuesday that it would comply with the restriction on displaying the symbols outside the government…
Joanna Slater and Azad Majumder, Majumder reported from Dhaka/Washington Post On Sunday, Bangladesh, the world’s eighth most populous country, held what was billed as its first competitive election in a decade. But the results were anything but close: The incumbent prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and her ruling coalition won 288 out of 300 seats in…