Tahsin Rahman Brave Software, a Browser maker, wants to get rid of the worst parts of online ads on the Web, but the biggest newspapers of USA have considered this an ‘illegal’ plan and instigated an attack against it. Lawyers from Washington post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other members of the Newspaper…
Eshan Maitra This may sound like straight from a sci-fi story. But Samsung has really patented another futuristic gadget this April. They have announced to be developing Smart Contact Lenses. Built-in camera is just the tip of the ice berg. The features are unimaginably amazing and just as much exciting. South Korea granted the tech…
The Guardian, UK: A mother and child who fell onto a tube track at Baker Street station survived by ducking into a pit between the rails as the train passed over their heads. The woman’s husband also escaped unharmed after jumping down from the platform to try to help his family before the train passed….
Sabah Mannan More than three weeks into the worsening humanitarian crisis, a police operation is under way on Manus Island, with Papua New Guinean police and immigration officers entering the former detention centre in an attempt to move the remaining detainees out. Police forces were described as menacing and aggressive by refugees as they destroyed…
Hossen Sohel: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has agreed to shut one of the country’s main missile testing and launch sites, says the South’s President Moon Jae-in, reports BBC. After meeting in Pyongyang, the two leaders “agreed on a way to achieve denuclearisation,” said Mr Moon. The agreement was described by Mr Kim as a…
CNN A British nurse who risked — and ultimately lost — her life to help British and French soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium in World War I is remembered with a Google Doodle Tuesday. Edith Cavell was born on December 4, 1865, in Norfolk, eastern England. Nursing wasn’t an immediate vocation — she turned to…
DOT Desk The country’s development efforts saw a significant boost in the outgoing year with public spending-led accelerated growth, LDG graduation eligibility and rolling out of the Delta Plan 2100, reports The Daily Sun. Increased public investment and strong consumption led the country to post the highest ever 7.86 per cent growth in FY18 with…
UNB A housewife was found slaughtered at Dakkhin Char Clerk Adarsha village of Subarnchar upazila on Friday morning. The deceased was identified Kulsuma Begum, 35, 2nd wife of Firoj Alam of the village. Nizam Uddin, officer-in-charge of Char Jabbar Police Station, said Kulsuma used to live alone in a house built on a disputed land…
Desk Report: Many criminals are now managing to get passports by using fake addresses to evade arrest by law enforcers and keep continuing acts of crime, intelligence sources said, reports Daily Sun. A section of employees of the Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) and police officers is helping criminals to get such passports in…