Arafat Hasan: Russia has launched its biggest military exercise since the Cold War, involving about 300,000 service personnel, according to a report by the BBC. China will also be taking part in the exercise, titled ‘Vostok-2018’, sending 3,200 troops with many Chinese armored vehicles and aircraft. Mongolia is also sending some units. The last Russian…
Hossen Sohel: A man was killed in an alleged shootout with RAB in Dhaka’s Mirpur. The gunfight occurred in the Beribadh area early yesterday, said RAB-2 In-Charge Assistant Superintendent of Police Saiful Malik, reports bdnews24.com. The deceased was identified as 30-year-old Asadul, a resident of the BNP Bazar area. RAB says he has been accused…
Tech Explorist Astronomers have recently detected the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. The object has been given the provisional designation 2018 VG18. 2018 VG18, nicknamed “Farout” by the discovery team for its extremely distant location, is at about 120 astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU is defined as the distance between the…
Desk report: Installation of “core catcher” has started at unit no. 1 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) on Saturday, reports the financial express. Core catcher, a device for catching molten core (active part of the reactor that contains nuclear fuel) material, is an important element in the passive safety system of a nuclear reactor….
Kabir Humayun: Police have detained a bus driver and his assistant of Bhai-Bon Paribahan in connection with a death of schoolboy Tanvir Ahmed Jion in a road accident. Kotowali Police OC Mukhtarul Alam said they have arrested bus driver Inshan Ali Shanu, 45, and his assistant Badshah Mia, 40, from the Rangpur Central Bus Terminal…
AP, Cairo The editor of Egypt’s top state newspaper called on authorities on Sunday to seriously deal with the case of an Italian student tortured and killed in Cairo, saying officials who don’t realize the gravity of the case are risking a break in Egyptian-Italian relations. In a front-page column, Al-Ahram’s Editor-in-Chief Mohammed Abdel-Hadi Allam…
Desk Report: Bangla Academy will soon publish three books authored by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports Daily Star. Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, director general of Bangla Academy, said this yesterday at a discussion on Bangabandhu’s two already-published books — “Karagarer Rojnamcha” and “Oshomapto Atmojiboni”, marking 43rd death anniversary of Bangabandhu and National Mourning Day (August 15)….
UNB Young transgender children allowed to live openly as the gender they identify with fared as well psychologically as other kids in a small study that suggests parental support may be the key. Rates of depression and anxiety were equal in the study, which compared 73 transgender kids aged 3 to 12 with 73…
Reuters: A suicide bomber attacked a bus ferrying Chinese mining workers in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province on Saturday, a local official said, in an assault claimed by Baloch separatists. The bomber died in the attack and the Chinese workers suffered minor wounds, the official said. Militant group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the…