Samiul Bashar Samin Picture yourself in a supermarket aisle in 2050. These new ‘magic meatballs’, brightly coloured for the kids, seem worth a try. Better have some of the meat powder too, one of the more established products from the mass-manufacturers of cultured meat – you can make that creamy meat-based fondue that always satisfies….
BSS Three members of a family were killed and two others injured when a truck collided head on with a CNG run auto rickshaw in BKSP area under Sadar upazila in the district on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as Salma Begum (70), her son Harunur Rashid (45) and his daughter Sayra Khatun (28)….
M Humayun Kabir: The nation is observing the 43rd martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which is also the National Mourning Day, with profound shock and tribute today. Elaborate programmes have been taken by the government, ruling Awami League, its front and associate bodies, and different socio-cultural, political and professional…
DOT Desk: Most of the flyovers in the capital have become dumping grounds of dust and dirt, posing a serious threat to public health, reports The Daily Sun. Pile of dust is found on both sides of the city flyovers every day and dust swirls everywhere when wind blows. Many locals said road accident may…
Myisha Nawar With the growing world population, we have developed a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have been directed to lots of different foods as ‘problematic’. From almonds and their water use to corn and its monoculture to beef…
Utpal Dutta, Editorial Assistant, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : The headway of inhuman torture in Bangladesh over the period of the first six of 2018 is explored and studied by Human Rights Support Society in details. The consequences covering the type and features of inhuman torture by Law Enforcement Agency demonstrates a gloomy…
Tech Exlplorist While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers were able to capture dramatic details of the turbulent stellar relationship in the binary star R Aquarii with unprecedented clarity — even compared to observations from Hubble. This spectacular image — the second instalment in ESO’s R…
Sumayyah Sarwat writes for DOT : Communal violence is often used as a political weapon in Bangladesh. Especially, poll time violence against minor religious and ethnic groups is a common scenario during every general and local election. Religious minorities have a long history of being inhumanly targeted by the political parties and their political vengeance….
Eshan Maitra Hatshepsut was the first very successful female pharaoh and a strong leader. But there was a deliberate act of Damnatio Memoriae, or the damnation of memory, against her. Not that there were any life-threat to her in her time of ruling. Rather someone tried to destroy all her traces tied to the world,…
The Straitstimes, Singapore: The world is at risk of entering“hothouse” conditions where global average temperatures will be 4-5 deg C higher even if emissions reduction targets under a global climate deal are met, scientists said in a study . The report comes amid a heatwave that has pushed temperatures above 40 deg C (104 Fahrenheit)…