DOT Desk The alternative grey market for handsets is proving lucrative for traders, who no longer feel the need to conceal information about the illegally imported smartphones, reports The Independent. The traders now blatantly post ads of the illegal handsets at malls and on e-commerce sites as well as give a one-week replacement warranty for…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT This year nears an end with yet another achievement as the Bangladesh team won one gold medal, two highly-commended medals and one technical medal in the 20th International Robot Olympiad (IRO). The competition was held in the Philippines from December 15-19, in which Bangladesh participated for the first time, reports The…
DOT Desk Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered firearms and gunpowder from Masudpur border in Shibganj upazila on Tuesday night, reports UNB.Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB conducted a drive in Tarapur field around 10:15 pm and challenged three people while they were trying to intrude Bangladesh from Indian border. , said…
AP A Southern California doctor was arrested Tuesday on charges of doling out drugs to patients he didn’t examine and is alleged to have prescribed drugs to five people who died of overdoses as well as an impaired driver who struck and killed a bicyclist, federal prosecutors said. Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham, 57, faces charges…
Wion News Luanne Wright was all set for retirement when the deadliest wildfire in California history swept through her town of Paradise. The blaze incinerated her home, her car and even the chickens in her backyard. Now Wright is spending days leading up to Christmas with her husband and daughter on adjacent cots in a…
DOT Desk What differentiated Imagine Radio from all other music streaming applications when it launched recently was the earnestness and clarity that the CEO, Shahriar Shahid, promised to bring to the music listening experience, reports The Daily Star. With the endorsement of the biggest names from the music industry, including Feedback, Nemesis, Indalo, Elita, Chirkutt,…
Reuters More than 100 people have died in clashes between rival ethnic groups in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo this week, local activists said on Wednesday. The fighting in Mai-Ndombe province is some of the worst to hit the normally peaceful area in years and comes days before Sunday’s long-delayed presidential, legislative and provincial elections,…
Middle East Monitor Palestinians living in Gaza will be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, lesser pilgrimage, five years after they were stopped from doing so, Ma’an reported yesterday. The news site said sources had informed it that the Egyptian authorities would allow 1,000 pilgrims from Gaza to travel in January. The…
Reuters Days after a judge in Texas declared that the Obamacare healthcare law is unconstitutional, Maryland’s Democratic attorney general on Wednesday will pursue his request that another judge rule the opposite way. The lawsuit brought by 8More on Page 7, Col (From Page 8) Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh also seeks to challenge President Donald…
Michael Schuman/The Atlantic One of Beijing’s top goals is transforming China into a technology powerhouse, so what happens to Huawei matters beyond China’s own borders. As Ken Hu, the “rotating” chairman at Huawei Technologies, made the case during a briefing in southern China that his company’s telecom equipment was trustworthy and above board, he did…