Phys.Org: The Chinese kindergarten children giggled as they worked to solve puzzles assigned by their new teaching assistant: a roundish, short educator with a screen for a face. Just under 60 centimetres (two feet) high, the autonomous robot named Keeko has been a hit in several kindergartens, telling stories and challenging children with logic problems….
Desk Report: US-Bangla Airlines started operating regular evening flights on the Dhaka-Sylhet route.The airline will operate five flights a week except for Saturdays and Tuesdays, Kamrul Islam, general manager for marketing support of the carrier, said, reports The daily Asain Age. The flight will depart from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:40pm and will arrive…
Desk Report: Islamic University authorities suspended one of its students for one academic year for allegedly slapping a female student of his own department, REPORTS The Daily Sun. The decision was made at an emergency meeting held at IU administration building with IU Vice-Chancellor Professor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari in the chair, sources at IU registrar…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmad Written by: Eshan Maitra Bangladesh Bank instructed the Corporate Socially Responsible banks & financial organizations to distribute relief materials. To the residents who were in the recent montane landslide calamity due to heavy rainfall, in the Bandarban areas. Instructions were mailed from the Sustainable Finance Department to the Directors of such…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age : History took a decisive new turn for the Bengali nation on 23 June 1949. There were some courageous men — Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Yar Mohammad, Shamsul Haque, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and, of course, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy — whose names are today engraved in the Bengali…
Myisha Nawar Hacks make our lives simpler and make it easier to get through the day. Here are some that you may add up your sleeve. 1.If you get a short response when you ask someone a question, just wait. Keep quiet; maintain eye contact and they will usually pick up from where they left…
Hossen Sohel: Florence plowed into the Carolinas and lumbered slowly inland on Friday, knocking down trees, gorging rivers, dumping sheets of rain and leaving five people dead before it was downgraded to a tropical storm still capable of wreaking havoc, reports Reuters. Though Florence’s shrieking winds diminished from hurricane force as it came ashore, forecasters…
WHO: An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds, mostly of preventable causes, according to new mortality estimates released by WHO, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank Group. The vast majority of these deaths – 5.4 million – occur in the…
BSS Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested two alleged drug peddlers with 200 grams of heroin from Achua village under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district on Wednesday. The arrested were M Mikail, 22, son of M Intaj Ali and M Khairul Islam, 21, son of M Intaj Ali Kalu, both of them residents of…
UNB: Bangladesh’s famed archer Mohammad Ruman Shana was eliminated from the pre-quarterfinals of Recurve Men’s Individual event of the 18th Asian Games Archery losing to Agata Salabilla Riau Ega of Indonesia 4-6 at the GBK Archery Field in Jakarta on Thursday. Ruman Shana, who was placed 3rd scoring 677 in the ranking round, beat Thamwong…