Monirul Alam of DOT The operational flaws owing to lack of skills of some of the Presiding Officers has maligned the image of EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines), which were used iof the Parliamentary elections held on Sunday, Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helaluddin Ahmad said yesterday. “… It’s you (Media) who carried out negative campaign against…
Abrar Hussain The Bangla second question paper for the SSC exams were leaked on Facebook right before the exam. The questions went viral on the social media site about an hour before the exam started.When asked about the leaks, education officials only said that they would ‘look into the matter’. A Bdnews24 reporter called Dhaka…
Eshan Maitra No more implants! Soon scientists will be growing functional human heart in their labs. Only last year first successful heart implantation was possible. Then more researchers became interested in culturing hearts in the lab. HaraldOtt led this brilliant team from Massachusetts General Hospital Centre for Regenerative Medicine, to shape the first functioning human…
Samiul Bashar Samin An American startup company has engineered a gun, or rather a gun that looks like a smartphone. An US based company in Minnesota by the name of Ideal Conceal has come up with the idea to design this gun. Everybody uses a smartphone these days and the idea to come up with…
DOT Desk The number of tax return submission has increased by 40 per cent in the past two years, said Sirajul Islam, acting chairman National Board of Revenue (NBR), reports The financial Express. He gave the information while addressing an event organised by the NBR marking Income Tax Day on Friday, reports bdnews24.com. According to…
EshanMaitra We all know about the last mass extinction that occurred on Earth and wiped out the whole Dinosaur generations 65 million years ago. Scientists actually found the cycle of this mass extinction and it happens after certain period of time. Hence, the reason for it. The calculations suggest that the 6th Mass Extinction already…
UNB, Panchagarh A Hindu temple priest was hacked to death and a devotee shot in an attack by some miscreants in Deviganj upazila on Sunday morning. Police and witnesses said some miscreants who came in a motorbike set off several crude bombs at Sonto Gourir Moth on the western side of the Karatoa River in…
T.S “A bunch of racists”, is what exactly JK Rowling remarked when she received huge criticism over casting a black woman as Hermione, reported The Observer. She said that dealing with the continuous insistence of the people who said that Hermione should be a white woman. Olivier winner Noma Dumezweni “was the best actress for…
DOT Desk: A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Muktarpur village in Damurhuda upazila, reports The Daily Sun. The deceased identified as Abdul Barek, 40, was the son of Abdul Goni of Karpashdanga village in the upazila. Sukumar Biswas, officer-in-charge of Damurhuda Police Station, said police arrested Barek…
Desk Report: We are almost constantly surrounded by a variety of visual objects, all of which could, theoretically, be important for us. But only a very small area on our retinas, the fovea in the macula lutea, has high visual acuity; a large portion of our field of vision has only a low resolution. Therefore,…