Transaction growth through mobile financial service falls

    DOT Desk: Growth in transaction through mobile financial services slowed down in 2018 despite significant growth in active MFS accounts, reports The New Age. As per the latest central bank data, daily average transaction through mobile financial services grew by 7.17 per cent in November 2018 compared with the daily average transaction in January of…

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      The re-emergence of Anonymous: #OPTrump

      Samiul Bashar Samin Anonymous is back! Everyone is all excited and over the moon about the fact that the “heroes of the internet” have finally turned their heads towards the Fascist Orange with fur for hair that goes by the name of Donald Trump. Now, while all of you are rejoicing the fact that something…

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        Making promise is easier than fulfilling them

        Barrister Shafique Ahmed speaks to DOT :  BNP unveiled its election manifesto yesterday, putting major emphasis on pledges of freedom of speech and abolishing “black laws” of the country. BNP vowed to scrap all black laws including the Digital Security Act, Official Secrets Act and Special Power Acts to facilitate freedom of speech and expression….

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          Government appoints private secretaries to new ministers

            BDnews24: The government has appointed private secretaries to ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers of the new cabinet. Forty-five government officials holding the rank of deputy secretary and one official with the rank of assistant secretary were appointed as private secretaries to the new ministers in two orders issued by the public administration ministry…

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            The peculiar fruit that could become like strawberry

            Science Alert: That’s because scientists have used the groundcherry as an experimental test case to illustrate just how quickly CRISPR genome editing can speed up the domestication of wild, unruly plants. For a relatively obscure crop like the groundcherry (Physalis pruinosa) – aka ‘husk cherries’ and native to Central and South America – it would…

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