Desk Report: Customers will no longer need to provide photos and copies of national ID to buy mobile phone SIM cards as the telecom operators have launched electronic registration services for new connections, reports Financial Express. The customers will need to provide only name, NID number, date of birth, current address and fingerprints for the…
The Guardian: Chronic exposure to air pollution can cause detrimental harm to cognitive performance, a new study reveals. Researchers believe that the negative impact increases with age, and affects men with less education the worst. Over four years, the maths and verbal skills of some 20,000 people in China were monitored by the US-Chinese study….
UNB: More than 66,000 hectares (256 square miles) of land have been lost—roughly the area of Chicago, one of the biggest cities in the US – to erosion caused by the Padma River since 1967. That is according to an August 2018 report published by the NASA Earth Observatory, the arm of the US space…
Kabir Humayun: The Cyber Unit of the police headquarters will be strengthened for patrolling cyber-crimes, including the spread of rumours through social media, said Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary. The police chief came up with the remarks yesterday while briefing reporters at the police headquarters on the security measures taken for…
Samiul Samin The Far Cry series has become synonymous with being “over the top” in its grandiose action, open-ended gameplay and memorable characters. The latest in this series, Far Cry 4, shows little intention of changing up this formula, giving players another large-scale environment full of enemies and areas to explore with plenty of ways…
Tech Explorist A group of researchers at Nagpur-based Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology have developed a new technique which promises to help produce high-value graphene from discarded dry cells batteries. Graphene, a form of carbon, is a transparent and flexible conductor with a range of applications including in making solar cells, light-emitting diodes, touch panels,…
Desk Report: Asian Development Bank’s lending to Bangladesh is likely to exceed $2 billion this year, said a top official yesterday. The ADB has already approved over $1.6 billion, of which $1,535 million is sovereign, $60 million non-sovereign and $8.7 million technical assistance. “More projects worth over $600 million are likely to be approved by…
Tarannum Sattar Amitabh bacchan, 73, the famous Bollywood actor, walked down the streets of Delhi while shooting for his latest film “PINK”. He wore a mask and walked through without any security in the capital of India and apparently no one raised an eyebrow. There were no suspicions that the big star was walking through…
UNB, Mymensingh The upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Trishal was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Boilor in the upazila on Tuesday afternoon. Officer-in-charge of Trishal Police Station M Moniruzzaman said the accident took place as a bus hit the motorcycle of UNO Rashedul Islam, 37, from behind around 5:45pm while he…
EshanMaitra For many, it was really fun playing with glue as a kid. Sticking stuffs everywhere and also the feel of gooey slimes. Dave Hax took that even to the next level by magnetizing them! Also, his solution of slime will not stick onto everything. Like everything you could ever imagine of playing fun glue!…