Science Alert When it comes to prodding the very boundaries of the Solar System we all reside in, astronomers have had a notoriously tricky time of figuring out where those edges truly lie. For example, it took a whole year to officially confirm that Voyager 1 had reached the interstellar medium of space – the…
BBC : Foreign navies have played a key role in curbing piracy off Somalia’s coast, writes the BBC’s Anne Soy. On a beach in Hordeia on the northern coast of Somalia, I asked a former pirate what attracted him to piracy in the first place. The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, told me he…
Sayeed Muhammad: Khurshid Alam says he pulls 17-hour shifts three days a week driving a private bus in Dhaka, where tens of thousands of students held angry protests for over a week demanding an end to rash driving that killed two teenagers late last month. The government has moved swiftly to defuse the protests that…
News18: Taking on government’s move to grant citizenship to non-Muslim minorities who have come to India allegedly fleeing religious persecution from neighbouring countries, Prof Amartya Sen wondered why could the Centre not find room for Rohingya. “If you are talking about citizenship, it’s amazing that you could find room for non-Muslims in the neighbouring countries…
M Humayun Kabir: Commuters continued to suffer for the acute shortage of public transports in the capital city of Dhaka following ongoing campaign against delinquent city bus service operators. While visiting different city spots on Monday, people were seen waiting for hours to catch bus to reach their destinations, reports Financial Express. The situation has…
Kabir Humayun: Two suspected drug traders were killed in separate incidents of ‘gunfight’ with police in two districts – Rajshahi and Chandpur – early yesterday, reports NTV Online. In Rajshahi, Manik, 30, a suspected drug trader, son of Shahab Uddin of Natun Para in Charghat upazila, was killed in a reported gunfight with police at…
Reuters: The judge in the trial of two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar on accusations of obtaining secret state documents said on Monday he will deliver his verdict on August 27, in a case that is seen as a test of press freedom in the fledgling democracy. The judge set the date after closing arguments…
Eshan Maitra If you are a lefty and already can relate do this, good for you. Ones who can’t, start working that dumb complex brain of yours, you have the potential. A major study University of Liverpool in the UK finally were able to investigate out some of the most interesting facts about the lefties….
C.P. Surendran, Senior journalist based in India/Gulf News The Prime minister has to reshuffle Cabinet as no Indian government in recent times has a more crying need for critical, creative brains What must Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Last week, the Reserve Bank of India reported that 99.3 per cent worth of cancelled big…