Police arrested an alleged robber along with one rifle, one pistol and 101 rounds of bullet from Amirabad area in Lohagara upazila on Friday night. The arrestee was identified as Abdur Rashid, a resident of Paloanpara of Raozan upazila. Officer-in-charge of Raozan police station Kefayetullah said tipped off, a team of the police station conducted…
Reuters: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returned to Parliament on Monday to run her first cabinet meeting, six weeks after giving birth to her daughter, becoming only the second elected leader to do so in office. Ministers applauded as Ardern entered the cabinet meeting room and took her place beside Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters,…
Banglanews24: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out a drive and detained four suspected drug dealers in Purbachal area of the capital city Tuesday night. Some 2,06,000 yaba pills were recovered from their possession. RAB Legal & Media Wing Senior Assistant Director ASP Mizanur Rahman confirmed the matter yesterday . A covered-van and a truck were…
Reuters: The former bodyguard whose violent conduct plunged French President Emmanuel Macron into his biggest political crisis this summer agreed reluctantly to face questioning by senators as their hearings resumed on Wednesday. Alexandre Benalla, 26, is under criminal investigation after being filmed beating a May Day protester. The scandal brought the sharpest criticism Macron has…
VOA: Queen Elizabeth II’s 97-year-old husband was recovering Friday at the royal Sandringham estate after the Land Rover he was driving rolled on a nearby highway in a collision with another vehicle. Witness Roy Warne told the BBC he was driving home from work when the accident involving Prince Philip’s black Land Rover and a…
M Humayun Kabir: Hackers have stolen personal data of some 1.5 million people, or about a quarter of the population of Singapore, officials say. A government statement yesterday said the cyber criminals broke into the government health database in a “deliberate, targeted and well-planned” attack, reports BBC. Data taken include names and addresses but not…
Syed Nasir Ershad There are diverse views on the future of the U.K. in the greater Europe: some positive others negative and some are mixed. According to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the U.K. could stay in a reformed European Union despite the Brexit vote. Blair recently said every alternative for the…
DOT Desk The sale of smartphones, priced between Tk. 12,000 and Tk. 20,000, increased by 21 per cent in the first nine months of this year, said industry insiders. This is due to app-based services, reports The Independent. However, the sale of smartphones with a price tag of less than Tk. 10,000 decreased by 30…
NDTV: A doctoral research student at the University of Texas has built the world’s smallest medical robot that cannot be seen with the human eye. Creation of Soutik Betal, the robot measures 120 nanometer and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for its negligible size, Fast Company reports. The robot is basically a…
Eshan Maitra “Squeehe’ek ueeh’k kk’k ee’eek!” (Hello human, how you doing?) – that’s what the little dolphin said to me when we met. No, seriously! Well, seeing a dolphin for the first time is just as fascinating. If you are lucky enough, you could even meet one in person at the coast of Florida or Sidney….