Kabir Humayun: A 13-year-old boy told FBI agents that his mother’s boyfriend was training him to conduct “jihad” against non-believers, Quoting federal court documents, Reuters reported that the boy was part of group taken into custody at a squalid New Mexico compound last month. The boy was among 11 children and five adults living at…
AFP: Toyota will pump about $500 million into ride-share firm Uber as part of a deal to work together on mass-producing self-driving vehicles, the Japanese car giant said on Tuesday. The deal, which reportedly values Uber at about $72 billion, aims at “advancing and bringing to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale”,…
Reuters: British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said it is “extraordinary” that Google plans to launch a version of its search engine in China that will block some websites, but won’t co-operate with western efforts to remove child abuse content. “Seems extraordinary that Google is considering censoring its content to get into China but won’t cooperate…
Marilyn Thipthorpe We always love to smell these glorious buds of fragrance. Whether it be by the roadside or your garden, it seems like everyone always has the time or at least wants to stop for a while and just take in the beauty of flowers. Here are 10 amazing facts on flowers that you…
BBC: Trevor, once dubbed the world’s loneliest duck, has died after being attacked by dogs on the remote Pacific island he called home. Trevor was something of a local celebrity in the tiny nation of Niue for being the only bird of his kind living on the island. He had arrived in 2018, but it’s…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the father of the 43rd, was a steadfast force on the international stage for decades, from his stint as an envoy to Beijing to his eight years as vice president and his one term as commander in chief from…
DOT Desk With just 18 days remaining to hold the 11th parliamentary polls, no special drive is in sight to recover the illegal firearms in a bid to keep the polls free from muscle power or a show of force. Besides, no instructions were given by the authorities concerned to the owners of licenced firearms…
Oleg Vishnepolsky Global CTO at DailyMail Online and Metro.Co.Uk/ Linked in “Oleg, I am very disturbed by a conversation between 2 managers at the airport I just heard. Went like this – “John, I am so depressed. We have to make cuts, and I feel so bad because I am loyal to my people.” John…
Reported by: Tariqul Islam Sumon Written by: Eshan Maitra Government is spending 1,800 crores taka to initiate dredging out 24 inner-country water transportation routes. Dredging work is ongoing with full manpower on 20 other routes, and 30% of the work has been done already. 4 of the routes are already dredged out. Rest to be…
M. Aman Ullah,Cox’s Bazar 3 secretaries belonging from important ministries of the government visited the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia and the Balochali Rohingya slum. They came to Kutupalong refugee camp directly from Cox’s Bazar at around 10:30 in the morning of 23 August. The three secretaries were Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque, Secretary of…