Kabir Humayun: Police yesterday recovered four unidentified bullet-hit bodies in Narayanganj and Magura. Of those, three were recovered in Narayanganj and one in Magura, reports UNB. In Narayanganj, locals noticed unidentified bullet-hit bodies of three men aged between 30 to 35 years in Rupganj upazila at around 8:00am, said Moniruzzaman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Rupganj Police…
Eshan Maitra This started as a competition when the Gates Foundation first announced a big prize money for designing the most sustainable and cheap toilet. Cranfield University’s Nano Membrane Toilet won Bill and Melinda Gates’s favor with their design in September 2012. The winning team received US $710,000 to make that into reality. The Nano…
Cherry Blossom God knows we need to do something about these oil spills all over the Sundarbans’ and we need to do it fast! Researchers of the Queensland University of Technology in Australia have invented a superhydrophobic fabric that attracts oil but repels water. It’s still in its development stages as a prototype with promise…
BBC: Reading English has been the same for centuries – you start at the top of the page and work left to right, line by line. But what if that was all about to change? The problem is that the movements of our eyes between words takes up time and slows us down. The BBC…
France24: The United Arab Emirates has selected its first two astronauts to go on a mission to the International Space Station, Dubai’s ruler said Monday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum named the new astronauts as Hazza al-Mansouri, 34, and 37-year-old Sultan al-Neyadi. Writing on Twitter, he said the duo “raise the bar of ambitions for…
DOT Desk: The Chatto-gram Custom House has evidence that the seven Clearing and Forwarding agents, who have recently been found to be “involved” in a forgery, engaged in counterfeit activities for a total of 299 times between October 2013 and December 2018, NBR sources said, reports The Daily Star. On Wednesday, Customs Intelligence and Investigation…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a latest reaction, the US has expressed its disappointment over purported irregularities and intimidation in Khulna City Corporation polls held on Tuesday. It, however, congratulated all the parties for making the elections inclusive. US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat made the observation yesterday, but termed the election very encouraging that a wide range…
Afrida Ahmed Paul Manafort, Mr Trump’s former campaign chairman surrendered to the FBI and said he was innocent to the charges that were filed against him. Manafort and his lieutenant Rick Gates were accused of charges which include money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent, making false statements and buying expensive clothes, real…
Reuters: The Kremlin said on Friday it would review any British request to interview the two men London suspects of trying to murder a former spy in strict accordance with Russian law, but said it had not received any such request. Britain has charged the two men, who appeared on Russian TV on Thursday, with…
DOT Desk A total of 3,44,114 students of primary and secondary schools in Manikganj will get 29,67,081 text books free of cost on the 1st of January, 2019, reports The Financial Express. Manikganj District Education Office (DEO) sources said about 20,41,186 text books will be distributed among all the secondary level schools, including 162 secondary…