DOT Desk: Rubina Yasmin, a Bangladeshi girl working in the University of Greenwich, a UK’s prestigious educational institution after completing her graduation course from the same university thinks cash is dying and nobody is concerned about it, reports The Daily Observer. “Money is nothing but medium of exchange. People have reinvented the exchange of goods…
The Hill: President Trump’s fight against Google is making its way down Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress. Republican lawmakers are ramping up their scrutiny of the tech giant after Trump accused Google of political bias and questioned whether regulators should take a closer look at its market powers. Google added fuel to the fire on Wednesday…
BBC: Sony has announced a miniature version of the first PlayStation console, which originally launched in 1994. The mini version will come with 20 retro titles, including Final Fantasy VII and Tekken 3. The PlayStation Classic is around half the size of the original and is due to launch on 3 December. One expert said nostalgia…
Wion Japan, the land of rising sun, is facing a peculiar problem: Abandoned houses that have been left vacant as the nation’s population grays and its growth shrinks. So, the Shinzo Abe government has come up with a novel idea to make use of the pieces of property: Give them away at discounted price, or…
Desk Report: A health centre at Ujaldanga in Fulchhari upazila has been completely eroded by the surging water of the Jamuna river, and 55 families have lost their homesteads and croplands, reports Daily Star. Ujaldanga health centre went into the river on August 17 as the rapacious river started devastation in the areas for the…
Desk Report American scientists reported a new antibiotic treatment with heavy metal gallium that showed signs of efficacy in a preliminary trial among patients with hard-to-treat lung infection. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine described the new approach that tricks bacteria into taking up a molecule that looks like food,…
Wion News: Pope Francis vowed on Saturday to end the sexual exploitation of children by clergy during a highly-charged visit to once deeply Catholic Ireland and, according to victims, said the corruption and cover-up of abuse amounted to human excrement. On the first papal visit to the country in almost four decades, Francis used a…
Tahsin Rahman Oshin Many of us have experienced drowsiness or sleepiness after a happy meal, especially after at a wedding dinner, or during the day of Puja or Eid festival. While most may think of it as normal tiredness and the ‘body giving in’ after a huge meal, it can actually be a cause of…
U.S. stocks were set to drop sharply at the open on Friday as weak economic data from China and Europe exacerbated global growth fears and added to nerves over the U.S.-China trade talks. Equity futures fell about 0.8 percent after data showed weak monthly retail sales growth and industrial output in China, with sluggish Euro…
In the renowned city of United Kingdom named Bristol, a company named Coexist will be giving a temporary leave to their female workers during the time of their menstrual cycle. They organized a seminar on this so that they can set example and people around the world can have optimistic approach towards the menstrual cycle….