Hossen Sohel of DOT : Expressing doubt about fair polls, Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said they will not boycott the election under any circumstances as they will create a strong resistance together with people against any election irregularity, reports UNB. “We have doubt about a fair election, but we’ll be there in…
Trade Arabia Dubai will host the 6th Internet of Things Conference 2019 focusing on the business aspects of the digital transformation sweeping across industries, changing business models and opening up new services and markets for both traditional players and disruptive new entrants. The event will take place on February 20 and 21, reported state-run Wam….
Straits Times: Apple sounded the death knell of the home button with the launch of three new iPhones during a media event held in Steve Jobs Theatre at the tech giant’s campus Apple Park on Wednesday (Sept 12). The new iPhone XS, XS Max and XR all feature full-screen design without the home button that…
Desk Report: Police have made no visible progress in the investigation into the attack on US Ambassador in Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat in Mohammadpur, Dhaka even a week after the incident took place, reports Dhaka Tribune. An official vehicle of the US Embassy in Dhaka carrying the ambassador was attacked by a group of armed adult…
Express.UK WhatsApp fans look set to see a big change coming to the Facebook-owned Android and iOS chat app. WhatsApp is the world’s most popular chat app, with over 1.5billion users each month. The messaging app is owned by Facebook, and was purchased by the social networking giant back in 2014 for $1.5 billion. Unlike…
Md. Fakrul Islam Chowdhury writes for DOT : What Is Free Public Transport? Obviously, Free Public Transport for everyone is not really entirely free. Someone, somewhere got to pay for it. What Free public transport, often called fare-free public transit or zero-fare public transport, generally means is a public transport funded in full by means…
Karol Markowicz/New York Post In the crazy, topsy-turvy year of 2018, socialism is somehow on the rise in America. To those of us unfortunate enough to have been born in the Soviet Union, this is troubling. The new socialists say it’s different this time. They have a new name and everything: “Democratic Socialism.” Don’t buy…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: In this past week, lawmakers in Spain voted out Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy over the issue of corruption in his People’s Party. It was a clean surgical operation that saw power swiftly pass into the hands of the Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez. Governance, in line with traditions of…
Marilyn Thipthorpe NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope mission just made history, announcing the discovery of 1,284 new exoplanets. This is the most new planets announced at one time, with 9 of them considered to be potentially habitable. A new technique was utilized to make the discoveries, in which scientists were able to determine the possibility that…
Reuters Many delegates from the world’s 20 largest economies arrived at a summit in Argentina this week determined to clinch an agreement to reform the global trade system, pushed to a breaking point by tensions between the United States and China. To do so, they had to bow to U.S. and Chinese demands to drop…