Uterus cancer kills 11,000 women annually in Bangladesh

    BSS Nearly 11,000 women die of uterus cancer annually in Bangladesh, while about five crore females are at risk to be affected by the disease, a recent research said. The research conducted by a team of uterus cancer experts showed that the illiterate and sex workers are at the great risk of the disease. The…

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      Welcome to the metadata society — and beware

      Adrian Lobe/Gulf News What is threatening about this algorithmic regulation is not only the subtlety of control that takes place somewhere in the opaque machine rooms of private corporations, but that a techno-authoritarian political mode could be installed, in which the masses would be mere politico-physical quantity Every day, Google processes 3.5 billion search queries….

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        Australia to work with Bangladesh on Rohingya issue

        Kabir Humayun: The Australian government has committed to work with Bangladesh to support Rohingyas in need at camps in Cox’s Bazar. After visiting Cox’s Bazar from August 6-9 to observe the humanitarian response to the Rohingya crisis, seven Australian parliamentarians made the committment, said Australian High Commission in Dhaka yesterday, reports UNB. Since September 2017,…

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          No room in US for ‘neo-nazism’: Ivanka

          AFP: Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter and a White House adviser, explicitly condemned “white supremacy, racism and neo-nazism” late Saturday in a manner her father seems reluctant to do. The tweets come on the anniversary of deadly unrest triggered by a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A similar far-right rally is scheduled for…

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