UNB, Sherpur A speedy tribunal here on Tuesday convicted four men and sentenced three of them to death and the other life term imprisonment for killing a schoolboy after abduction in Sherpur on August 2, 2015. The condemned convicts are Abdul Latif, uncle of the victim boy, Aslam Babu and Rabin Hossain while the lifer…
Eurek Alert A certain proportion of the adult population has not only white adipose (or fatty) tissue, but also the brown kind. This brown adipose tissue helps to convert sugar and fat into heat. People with brown adipose tissue are better at regulating their body temperature in the winter, and are less likely to suffer…
Noman Mosharef An officer of Detecitve Branch (DB ) was injured by two muggers in the capital yesterday morning. DB inspector Mahbubul Haque was returning home from office in the morning. When he reached Mouchak area, two miscreants stopped him.They tried to snatch his belongings. As he tried to resist them, they stabbed him. Later…
Phys.org: When a black hole is actively feeding, something strange can be observed: enormously powerful jets of plasma shoot from its poles, at velocities approaching light speed. Given the intense gravitational interactions at play, exactly how those jets form is a mystery. But now, using computer simulations, a team of physicists has hit upon an…
NDTV As their devices have spread across the country this year, electric scooter companies have been criticized for deploying models that break apart in use, catch fire and lull vulnerable riders into a false sense of safety. With stories about badly injured riders proliferating, a transportation robotics company claims it may have the solution. Superpedestrian…
Reuters: US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81. McCain, a US senator from Arizona for over three decades, had been battling…
DOT Desk ‘Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale’, a docu-drama based on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is all set for its world television (TV) premiere on December 15, reports The Independent. Three prominent channels of the country, Channel i, Maasranga TV and GTV will telecast the docu-drama at 3pm…
Desk Report: Though the country has made good economic progress over the years, urban experts think the capital city still lacks quality bus fleets to match the people’s improved lifestyle, reports The Daily Star. They said almost all the existing 8,000 public buses in the city are completely unfit for running in a capital city…
Sofian Khan A decade after he swept to power in the Maldives’ first democratic elections, exiled opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed is again pushing for change by force if necessary as his island homeland spirals into crisis. Nasheed made history in 2008 when he defeated Maumoon Abdul Gayoom then Asia’s longest-serving leader after three decades of…
UNB A huge traffic gridlock has been created on both sides of Bangabandhu Bridge as the computerised toll collection system of the bridge broke down this morning. Due to the malfunction of the system, the toll collection was kept suspended from 10:00am to 12:00pm, keeping hundreds of vehicles stranded on the bridge. Later, the bridge…