CNN: NASA counted down Saturday to the launch of its $1 billion ICESat-2 mission, using advanced lasers to uncover the true depth of the melting of Earth’s ice sheets. The mission will inform sea level rise forecasts and is “exceptionally important for science,” according to Richard Slonaker, ICESat-2 program executive at NASA. The half-ton satellite…
BSS One person was killed in a road crash in Bhanga upazilla headquarter when his motor cycle he was riding was hit by a unidentified passenger coach on Friday morning. He met the accident on Bhanga-Mawa road in front of Bhanga Fire Service station when he was going to Dhaka from Nalchiti of Jhalakathi district…
UNB The Public Service Commission on Monday published a circular for the 37th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination seeking applications against 1,226 posts. The circular was published on the PSC website. The process to fill up forms and submit fees online will begin on March 31 and end on May 2, according to the circular….
Reuters: Argentine senators rejected a bill to legalize abortion after an impassioned debate ran into the early hours of Thursday, pushing back against a groundswell of support from a surging abortion rights movement. The Senate voted 38 to 31 against the proposed measure, which would have legalized a woman’s right to seek an abortion into…
Robyn Silverman/Gulf News A friend recently divulged to me that her 8-year-old daughter had started asking her about death. “Am I going to die? Are you going to die? WHEN?” My friend, taken off guard, changed the subject to something much more palatable: “Who wants ice cream?” Talking to children about tough topics is never…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Last year, a study conducted at the University of Cambridge involving the production of viable sperms and eggs went viral (pun intended!). The scientists of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge headed by Dr. Azim Surani, reported that they had successfully created primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs by culturing embryonic stem cells…
Raj Abrar: At the invitation of her Canadian counterpart Justine Trudeau, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dubai yesterday for Toronto on a four-day official visit to attend the outreach session of G7 Summit. After making a five-hour stopover in Dubai, the Emirates flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage departed Dubai International Airport at 3:30…
Desk Report: The help desk operating with a toll-free phone number under the National Emergency Services has been plagued with unnecessary phone calls thanks to lack of public awareness, reports Daily Sun. The unnecessary calls keep the emergency helpline number — 999 — busy almost all the time, sources said. They said most of the…
Priyanta Islam Daily Our Time organized the 2nd Poetry Reading Session at their Panthapath office on March 4th,2016. A number of distinguished poets as well as new and upcoming ones were invited to recite their poetry. Attending poets were Quamrul Hasan, Nahid Kaiser, Afreen Sadia, Marylin Thipthorpe, Anindya Nahar Habib, Tarannum Sattar and Md…