Samiul Bashar Samin We are doomed. Our best efforts to reproduce, to conserve, protect and survive will, in the end, come to nought. We could sort out climate change, dispose of our nuclear arsenals, ban research into killer AIs, and still the end would come, as surely as night follows day. The problem is physics…
AFP: Seventeen years later, more than 1,100 victims of the hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center have yet to be identified. But in a New York lab, a team is still avidly working to identify the remains, with technological progress on its side. Day in, day out, they repeat the same protocol dozens of…
Kari Wagner-Peck/CNN I recently eavesdropped on a table of three women I discerned had children close in age to my 11-year-old son, Thorin. They were talking about camp. I had some interest. My son attended two camps this summer and he has another two coming up. The tone of the conversation changed quickly from lighthearted…
Anadolu Agency: Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated in the southern city of Basra on Sunday amid a growing anger over high unemployment and poor public utilities. Protesters blocked a main road to crude oil tankers near Al-Qurna oil field west of Basra, according to local media. Security forces have tightened up security measures near the oilfield…
Md. Ali Raj: As drug dealing business spreaded into the country in recent years, many people have taken it as their profession also. Claiming himself as a big businessman, Ishtiaq Ahmed, who was a ragpicker 18 years back is one of those successful and powerful business mafia. Law enforcement agency has named him as a…
DOT Desk The dredging of inland waterways is set to come under real-time monitoring as part of a government plan to develop a web-based system to track all such schemes, reports The Financial Express. Shipping ministry is working to initiate a year-long project to develop software in order to monitor public and private dredgers working…
UNB: The14th edition of the six-nation Asia Cup will begin on September 15 with Bangladesh taking on Sri Lanka in the tournament opener at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, UAE. The six best teams of the Asia subcontinent have already announced their squads to start their campaign — split in two groups — in the 13-match…
Reported by: Sanim Ahmed Written by: Tanzim Taqrim Arnob If Myanmar’s Rakhine state Security Force torture four hundred thousand Rohingyas, it is obvious that they will escape and try to find a home in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is giving pressure internationally to stop the violence. From United Nation to different countries, a request has been placed…
Éloi Laurent, Senior research fellow at the Sciences Po Centre for Economic Research (OFCE)/Project Syndicate On the 40th anniversary of China’s great “opening up” under Deng Xiaoping, its leaders deserve praise for lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and surpassing the United States as the world’s largest economy. But China’s experience has…
Prof Anu Muhammad speaks to DOT : The government’s existence lies in denying what really happened in the just-concluded 11th parliamentary elections held on December 30. Because, the government will lose its moral legitimacy if it concedes the report. AL knows it better about the TIB report since vote rigging took place under the aegis…