NDTV: A doctoral research student at the University of Texas has built the world’s smallest medical robot that cannot be seen with the human eye. Creation of Soutik Betal, the robot measures 120 nanometer and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for its negligible size, Fast Company reports. The robot is basically a…
M Humayun Kabir: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) announced that vehicular movement would remain off-limits on the roads adjoining Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital today due to a public reception programme for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Ruling Awami League is arranging the reception programme for Sheikh Hasina for being conferred with Doctor of Literature (DLitt) degree…
Samiul Bashar Samin The belief that physical illness can be psychosomatic, or caused by the mind, has long been seductive, capturing the imagination of doctors and writers alike.The assertion that physical illness is due to psychosocial stress is absurdly common, in both the popular media and the medical literature. The abundance of conditions supposedly caused…
Sofian Khan Rohingya Camps in Cox’s Bazar lack basic facilities of food, shelter and health, said rights activist Sultana Kamal on Monday.While addressing a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in Dhaka, the rights activists said that there are continued risk of human trafficking at the refugee camps. She was briefing journalists about a…
VOA News: As the United States and North Korea engage in rare, high-level diplomacy to resolve disputes over the North’s nuclear weapons program, there’s new attention focused on Pyongyang’s abduction of Japanese citizens four decades ago. Tokyo and Pyongyang have long been at odds over the truth-really-is-stranger-than-fiction stories of abductions by North Korea in the…
ABS-CBN: Rihanna has sued her father for trading on her Fenty brand name and suggesting that a business venture he set up in 2017 is associated with her. The “Diamonds” singer, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, filed a lawsuit in US federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday accusing Ronald Fenty and 2…
The Province: Pope Francis paid tribute in Sicily to a priest who worked to keep youths away from the Mafia and was slain by mobsters. Francis says he flew to the Mediterranean island Saturday morning to mark the 25th anniversary of the assassination in a Palermo slum of a “martyr priest,” the Rev. Giuseppe “Pino”…
Eurek Alert: Scientists increasingly believe that one of the driving forces in chronic pain–the number one health problem in both prevalence and burden–appears to be the memory of earlier pain. Research published today/this week in Current Biology suggests that there may be variations, based on sex, in the way that pain is remembered in both…
Sofian Khan Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon yesterday urged the officials to accomplish all unfinished projects of the current fiscal year properly.”The present government is increasing the budget every year to boost up the social sector and we don’t accept any corruption and nepotism regarding the budget,” he said, speaking at a view exchange meeting…