Marilyn Thipthorpe 1. Robot battle: Talk about the geekiest battle of the year: MegaBots, a robotics startup in Boston, recently challenged its one and only competitor, Suidobashi Heavy Industry of Japan, to a duel. MegaBots builds giant, human-piloted robots that look like something out of a “Power Rangers” episode. The company’s 15-foot-tall bot, the Mark…
Neil Macdonald, Opinion columnist/ CBC News From fiscal policy, to trade, to war — Trump has been an objective ally for those on the left I shouldn’t, but I delight in discussing Donald Trump’s presidency with friends on the left.Not to commiserate over what a pig the man is (calling someone a pig is presidential…
UNB: Indian High Commissioner to Bangla desh Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Thursday said making the list of citizens in Assam is an internal matter of India and they will make sure it does not harm bilateral relationship with Bangladesh. “This is not an issue of concern. It’s an internal matter of India determining that…
UNB: Bangladesh National Football team, now touring South Korea as part of their preparations for the Asian Games in Indonesia, played K-League side Gwangju Football Club of South Korea in the first practice match on Wednesday at the Mokpo International Training Centre ground. The match kicked off at 1:30 pm (Bangladesh Time). Bangladesh made their…
DOT Desk Significant changes to the Brick Production and Brick Kiln Building (Control) Act of 2013 will pave the way to more pollution from mushrooming brick kilns, experts and environmentalists said. Under Bangladesh’s current five-year plan, when the government is committed to reducing air pollution to zero by 2020, the presidential ordinance published on November…
AP, Washington Dozens of world leaders assembling Friday for a nuclear security summit will confront a disparate array of modern-day threats, ranging from government actors like North Korea to murkier groups like the Islamic State. Frustration over the slow pace of reducing nuclear stockpiles shadowed the final day of the summit, President Barack Obama’s last…
Tanvir Ahmed Bankers are collaborating with IT experts in order to orchestrate 67% of the online banking fraud, reports Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) in their research. BIBM published this at their auditorium during the event – ‘Alternative Delivery Channel Opportunities & Challenge of the New Banking Environment’, on yesterday. Though online banking is…
UNB Police recovered the body of a rickshaw-van puller with the throat slashed at Ghaturia in Kalai upazila early Friday. Locals spotted his body with the throat slit in a field at Ghaturia village on Friday morning. Informed, police recovered the body and sent it to a local hospital morgue for autopsy.
Yohannes Gedamu, Lecturer of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, GA, US./ Al jazeera The recent events in Eastern Ethiopia proved once again that the country’s ethnic federalism is not working. After just four months in office, Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed already managed to make the nation hope for a better,…
M Humayun Kabir: Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Hiroyasu Izumi yesterday hoped that the Rohingya issue will be resolved peacefully soon. The envoy came up with the hope while addressing at the inaugural session of a two-day international conference on ‘Bangladesh in International Peace-building: Experience from Japan’ in the city, reports UNB. The diplomat said his…