DOT Desk: The extended term of reserved women’s seat at the parliament has been challenged at court, reports The Daily Star. Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Eunus Ali Akond filed a petition with the High Court yesterday against the constitutional amendment that extended their term to 25 years. Advocate Akond prayed for a rule upon the…
DOT Desk: The Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh organised a solo musical performance of noted Nazrul Giti singer Shushmita Anis in the capital. The event was part of the EU’s policy, adopted in 2016, to encourage cultural cooperation between the union and its partner countries, reports The New Age. The Delegation also paid…
DOT Desk: Free textbooks for primary and high school students, provided by National Curriculum and Text Book (NCTB) authority, are being sold in port city markets, reports The Daily Star. Dodging the eyes of the authorities concerned, some unscrupulous businessmen are selling the books, according to police and market sources. The issue came to light…
Science Alert: In the water, it’s getting harder to breathe. Suffocating dead zones with little or no oxygen are pervading the world’s oceans, rivers, and streams. This phenomenon – which has exploded in recent decades – poses an extinction-level nightmare for marine populations already beset by a complex interaction of human-made menace. When it comes…
Tech Explorist: When it comes to acoustic guitars, however, the wood configuration arguably plays a more crucial role. The wood choices for the body, neck and fretboard form upwards of 90% of the construction of an acoustic guitar as they’re almost entirely responsible for the way an acoustic guitar sounds. Similarly, wood type plays a…
Tech Explorist: Putting in half a month cruising the oceans on an extravagance liner is a thought that interests to a developing number of individuals, especially in Asian nations. Be that as it may, cruise ships don’t simply sail from port to port: as veritable drifting lodgings pleasing a few hundred travelers, they utilize a…
Tech Explorist: The faint, ephemeral glow emanating from the planetary nebula ESO 577-24 persists for only a short time — around 10,000 years, a blink of an eye in astronomical terms. ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured this shell of glowing ionised gas — the last breath of the dying star whose simmering remains are visible…
Tech Explorist: A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad has developed a new technique that promises to help deploy high volume artificial neural networks (ANNs) on mobile phones and portable devices. Artificial neural networks work the same way as human nervous systems and are based on interconnected processing elements working together…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday said the government has taken an initiative to build a separate railway bridge beside the existing Bangabandhu Bridge on the Jamuna River, reports The Daily Star. “One more double-gauge rail bridge will be built beside the Bangabandhu bridge with the finance of Japan,” the railway…
DOT Desk: Although still producing earthen pots and utensils, lack of innovation and inability to use technology has held them back without ever reaching their full potential, reports The Dhaka Tribune. In the small village of Kartikpur in Bhedarganj upazila of Shariatpur, a dynasty of potters, namely Pals and Kumars, have sustained the rare pottery…