Hossen Sohel: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, eyeing an historic extended term, reaffirmed yesterday his resolve to revise the nation’s post-war, pacifist constitution and said he hoped his party could submit a proposal to parliament later this year, reports Reuters. Abe, who returned to office in December 2012 pledging to bolster defenses and reboot the…
UNB: A Bangladeshi physicist of Princeton University has led an international research team in discovering a novel quantum state of matter that can be ‘tuned’ at will — and it’s 10 times more tunable than existing theories can explain. M Zahid Hasan and his team’s discovery of this level of manipulability of quantum matter opens…
DOT Desk At least three people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a Mahindra three-wheeler and bus at Pakutia under Ghatail on Tangail-Mymensingh Highway at about 11:30am yesterday. The deceased were identified as Shyamal, 32, son of Younus Ali of Beara village of the upazila, three-wheeler driver Shamsu, 45 and…
BSS: Rajshahi zone of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (REB) is going to attain the target of 100 percent power supply to all its 30 upazilas by next June. “We have already brought 28 upazilas under the coverage of hundred percent power supply in this zone,” said Enamul Haque, superintending engineer (current-charge) of REB, Rajshahi zone….
Muniyat When you walk into your favorite store what is the first thing that catches your eye? What attracts you and makes you think “I absolutely need this!” Is it that neon pink clutch? Or those leopard printed leggings? As a buyer, there are many aspects that affect our acquiring decisions. Majority of people are…
Eshan Maitra The study was done by the researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). They went to the locals with only one question – “Which would you rather have more of: time or money?” After these the participants were asked few other different types of questions designed…
Tech Explorist A new study has estimated the size of Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile to be lower than present estimates, attributing it to a shortage of uranium. The study estimates that Pakistan could at best have between 112 and 156 nuclear weapons. Of them, about 78 to 104 would be highly enriched uranium (HEU)-based weapons and…
Sławomir Sierakowski/Project Syndicate The assassination of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz at a fundraising event for Poland’s most beloved charity culminates years of fear-mongering about the country’s opposition and judiciary by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. And now the PiS has chosen the wrong scapegoat for Adamowicz’s murder. The murder of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł…
Muhammad Zamir writes for DOT The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), London has at the end of 2018 has observed that Bangladesh is set to witness a significant economic growth in the next 15 years- to 36th position by 2023, 27th by 2028 and 24th by 2033. They are expecting Bangladesh’s “annual rates…
Starchild Things in the K POP world are about to ge wild as two superstars get ready to face each other. The two singers are the Girls Generation lead singer and g is a former member who was booted out of the mega-popular K-pop girl group in 2014. Nearly early two years on, the 27-year-old…