Tech Explorist: Scientists for the first time have drilled over two kilometers through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water. This study will help them see how the region will react to a warming climate. A team of 11 scientists is working on the Rutford Ice Stream for the last 12 weeks in…
DOT Desk Warfaze joined Unicef as “Advocate for Child Rights” in a contract of two years. The announcement was made at the 14th Meena Awards 2018, an event held at the Pan-Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka, reports Dhaka Tribune. The percussionist of Warfaze, Sheikh Monirul Alam Tipu told Dhaka Tribune Showtime, “We were invited to…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : A Philipp-ine court yesterday held a former bank manager guilty on eight counts of money laundering, the first conviction in one of the world’s largest cyber heists, in which $81 million was stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank nearly three years ago, reports Reuters. The regional court sentenced Maia Deguito, a…
Eshan Maitra We all read or heard about the silly story about Archimedes and one of his greatest discoveries. That, the moment he discovered it, he ran into the street from the bath house, barely with any clothes on. Some story extends it that, he ran into the castle to the king with nothing but…
Anjana Susarla, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University/WION news The Kremlin’s foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This was evident most recently in Russia’s alleged efforts to undermine an agreement between Greece and its tiny northern neighbor, the Republic of…
Banglanews: Radisson Blu Chittagong Bay View General Manager Robin Edwards said the five-star hotel in port city already has proved its wide-scale acceptability to the customers through providing world class services. “Our main objective is to ensure customers’ satisfaction. We are committed to provide them global-standard services with maximum heartiness. The staff and officials of…
Asian Age: The government distributed khas land among 267 landless families including, Freedom Fighters (FF) of Pirojpur during the last 2017-2018 fiscal year. District administrative sources said the government earlier decided to distribute khas land among landless people as well as poor freedom fighters. A total of 49.94 acres of land have been distributed among…
Russia Today: Donald Trump has threatened to impose even more tariffs on Chinese goods if Beijing dares to impose tit-for-tat measures in response to Washington’s latest package of levies targeting some $200 billion of Chinese exports. Trump has cautioned the world’s second-largest economy to think twice before engaging in a trade war in which,…
DOT Desk: The Direc-torate of National Consumer Rights Protection on Tuesday fined 61 businesses Tk 3.32 lakh in charge of various offences including producing food in unhygienic environment, reports The Daily Sun. Mobile teams of the DNCRP conducted the drives in 20 districts headed by 22 top officials as part of its routine market monitoring….