Mrs. I Donthaveaphd No, it is not hammers, spatulas, screwdrivers, or nuts; the iPhone is the most useful tool right now. However, if you are the type of user who does not know anything about their phone and just swipes away hoping for the best, you probably do not even know how great your phone…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A vessel carrying 850 tonnes of cement clinker has anchored near Chandpur Launch Terminal after a crack developed on its keel (bottom portion of the vessel) on the Meghna river in the early hours yesterday, reports The Daily Star. Most of the cement clinker has been damaged. The vessel-MV Haji Abdul…
Desk Report: A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Faria Mahjabin, owner of Nerdy Bean Coffee Haus in Dhanmondi, in a case filed over “spreading rumours on social media platforms” during the recent student movement for safe roads, reports The Daily Star. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Aminul Haque passed the order after her lawyer…
NDTV: The army has ordered disciplinary action against Major Leetul Gogoi, who was detained by the police in Srinagar after a row in a hotel involving a Kashmiri woman. An army court of inquiry has held Major Gogoi guilty of “fraternising with a local in spite of instructions to the contrary and being away from…
Hindustan Times: Germany rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology. Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, a process that leaves steam and water as the…
DOT Desk A total of 75,478 hectares of land have been brought under the cultivation of crops and vegetables in Sylhet division during the current Rabi season, reports the Financial Express. Potato, gourd, sweet gourd, radish, bean, tomato, cucumber, leafy vegetables, pumpkin, cauliflower, cabbage and brinjal are the most popular vegetable items this time. Varieties…
DOT Desk: State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government has a target to have at least one thousand cyber security experts in the country by 2021. “The digital infrastructure has been developed in the last decade, now it is time to ensure the digital security, he said….
DOT Desk Artist Monirul Islam was conferred with the “Royal Spanish Order of Merit” for his outstanding contribution to art on December 16. The award was handed to the artist at the Dhaka residence of the Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh at Gulshan in the city, reports The Daily Observer. The Spanish Ambassador in Dhaka Alvaro…
Leonid Bershidsky/Gulf News Lack of clear-headed leadership could signal the deterioration of institutions The dictionaries have decided on their 2018 words of the year. Oxford picked “toxic”. Merriam-Webster went for “justice”. Collins chose “single-use”. I’d zero in on “misgovernment”. Surely, 2018 saw a staggering number of countries woefully misruled by the worst crop of world…
The man described as the father of the 29-year-old suspect in this week’s deadly Christmas market attack in Strasbourg says his son subscribed to the beliefs of the Daesh group.The interview with Abdelkrim Chekatt by the state-run France 2 television channel was shown Saturday night, two days after the son was killed in a confrontation…