Digital Journal: A new artificial intelligence driven platform can assess a person’s personality by scanning the eyes. This is through assessing the way that the eyes move, through the use of an advanced tracker and data analysis software. Putting aside the concept of ‘personality’ and its disputed nature within psychology, the new platform attempts to…
Raj Abrar: The Jatiya Sangsad budget session for 2018-19 Fiscal Year will commence on June 5, the last budget of the incumbent Awami League government. The parliament will go into session at 11:00 am on that day with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury in chair. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith is exprected place the budget proposal…
DR. M A Hasan writes for DOT : The reign of slaughter, torture and rape carried out by the Pakistani military during the liberation war in Bangladesh shook the consciousness of many human rights campaigners around the world. Ideas of basic human values were called into question. Facts regarding the rape and torture of Bengali…
UNB, Dhaka Amid fears of violence and polling irregularities, the second phase balloting in the Union Parishad elections is set to take place in 639 UPs of 82 Upazilas spread across 47 of the country’s 64 districts on today. The balloting began at 8am and will continue till 4pm without any break. As many as…
Reuters: Washington was bracing for a white nationalist rally on Sunday organized to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right 2” event was scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Several counterprotests have…
Barrister Al Amin Rahman writes for DOT Bangladesh’s next parliamentary election is tomorrow and before that we must look back & acknowledge that Bangladesh economy has transformed from a low income least developed status to a lower middle income status. On December 12, 2008 our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presented us “the charter of change”…
Desk Report: Bangladesh coach Jamie Day said on Monday that qualifying from the group stage would be their primary target in the 12th SAFF Championship that begins in Dhaka today. Hosts Bangladesh will begin their campaign when they take on Bhutan in their first Group A match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The other two…
NY times: Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by about 30,000 years. “We…
DW: The Norwegian capital plans to cut emissions by 95 percent by 2030, despite being one of Europe’s fastest growing cities. As European Green Capital 2019, it hopes to set an example for others. Oslo’s waterfront was once a mass of shipping containers and a vast intersection jammed with cars pumping out fumes. Today, traffic…