DOT Desk: National Board of Revenue has sought a set of data including accounting system and fare setting method from mobile apps-based ride sharing companies to remove complexities in collecting value-added tax on the service. In a letter issued on January 20, VAT wing of NBR asked Uber Bangladesh Ltd and Patho Ltd, the two…
Science Alert Replication is nature’s greatest magic trick. Watch closely, and before your very eyes you’ll see a single cell blur into two virtually identical copies. Presto. After more than half a century of research on molecular genetics, it would be easy to assume we’ve had this biological sleight-of-hand all figured out – but it’s…
BBC: At least 15 people were killed when a landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in south-eastern Peru, officials say. The impact of the mud and rocks forced the building’s walls and roof to cave in while guests were inside dancing. Twenty-nine people were injured and had to be pulled from the…
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AP, Seoul North Korea has tried warnings of nuclear attack and racist diatribes to criticize U.S. President Barack Obama. Now it’s turning to Abraham Lincoln. North Korea’s state media have constructed an imaginary letter from the 16th U.S. president that attacks Obama’s “deception” over Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. It is the latest response from…
Desk Report: Bashundhara Group, country’s one of the leading business conglomerates, signed an agreement with China Railway 17th Bureau Group Company Ltd for supplying its King Brand Cement for the construction of the eighth Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge in Pirojpur, reports Daily Sun. Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and China Railway 17th Bureau Group team…
Starchild A company in Paris, named Lucky You, is set to accomplish a legal consent of extending its territory from documentaries to films and features, reports variety.com. Robert Salvestrin, the founder of Lucky You has been selling 460 hours of documentaries, most of which are blue-chip titles produced by key European outfits, notably one of…
ScienceBlog: For every one-degree-Celsius increase in temperature, mountaintop species shift upslope 100 metres, shrinking their inhabited area and resulting in dramatic population declines, new research by University of British Columbia zoologists has found. The study–the first broad review of its kind–analyzed shifts in elevation range in 975 populations of plants, insects and animals. “Most mountaintop…
The Guardian, UK: Sajid Javid has been accused of trying to “buy the silence” of the Windrush generation by imposing non-disclosure agreements on citizens in return for fast-track compensation payments. Labour claimed the home secretary had broken his promise to “do right” by those migrants from across the Commonwealth who were caught up in the…
Desk Report: Bangladesh High Performance (HP) head coach Simon Helmot believes that Mohammad Mithun got the potential to replace Sabbir Rahman down the order, reports Daily Asian Age. After the unexpected exit of Sabbir from the scene for the time being due to his disciplinary issues that earned him a six month ban from international…