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Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away, according to a news release...
Smartphone shipments in China fell 11.4 per cent in January to 32.15 million units, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed Saturday. Last month, smartphones...
Uber Technologies Inc has reported 3.0 billion US dollars in revenue for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018, representing a 25-per cent year-on-year increase. The company generated a net-revenue of...
Sleep could enhance the target ability of immune cells inside human body to help fight off infection, a recent study said. "This finding shows that sleep has the potential to...
Sensex posted its longest losing streak in a year, as it fell for seven days in a row to hit its lowest close in two weeks on Friday. According to...
Over 100 Yaba traders, including 10 relatives of former MP Abdur Rahman Bodi, who had been kept at a police safe house, formally surrendered to police on Saturday. The surrender...
A Mexican soap opera star apologised on Friday for using a racial slur to describe actress Yalitza Aparicio, whose performance in the critically acclaimed film ‘Roma’ made her the first...
Wall Street ended higher on Friday, as financial stocks outperformed and the market has built up hopes in the possibility of easing US-China trade tensions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
A worker was burned to death as a fire broke out in a paper mill in Kalurghat BSCIC industrial area of Chattogram city in the early hours of Saturday. The...
Juventus moved 14 points clear at the top of Serie A with a routine victory over second-bottom Frosinone. Paulo Dybala found the top corner from Cristiano Ronaldo's pass to put...
The gas supply to homes and CNG filling stations in Dhaka’s Azimpur, Dhanmondi and Mipur will be turned off for 24 hours for repairs. The Titas Gas Transmission and Supply...
The World Court will hear arguments on Monday in a dispute between India and Pakistan about a former Indian navy commander sentenced to death by Islamabad for allegedly being an...
Commodore Mohammad Mozammel Haque, was withdrawn from the post of chairman of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Thursday and was sent back to the Bangladesh Navy. The transfer...
The Bangladesh Jute Association (BJA) has requested the government to withdraw restrictions on the export of BTR and BWR raw jute to protect their interests. The BTR stands for Bangla...
A second consecutive ton from Martin Guptill has eased New Zealand to an ODI series win against Bangladesh after an 8-wicket victory in Christchurch. The Kiwis won the toss and...
Nigeria's presidential and parliamentary elections have been delayed for a week. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) made the announcement just five hours before the polls were due to open...
Police arrested two people in connection with the murder of former principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin from Dhaka city's Mirpur and Netrokona district on Friday. The arrestees...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug pedlars with 3,640 yaba tablets from Ranihati Bazar area under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday. The arrestees were identified as Aminul...
Awami League (AL) Secretary General Obaidul Quader has said the government is planning to announce 35 years to be the maximum age for applying for government jobs. "An announcement in...
Bangladesh has strongly condemned the dastardly terrorist attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir state in northern India. "On behalf of the people and...
Stocks continued to decline, extending their losing streak for a third straight week that ended on Thursday, as investors keep selling shares of major sectors. The week featured five trading...
Fortune Shoes dominated the turnover chart of the Dhaka bourse last week that ended on Thursday while ten most traded companies accounted for nearly 28 per cent of the total...
Curbing corruption in all spheres of society is one of the topmost priorities of the present government, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said on Thursday. Also, improving the ease of doing...
A gunman opened fire at an Illinois manufacturing warehouse, apparently as he was being terminated from his job there, killing five fellow workers and wounding five police officers on Friday...
Bangladesh’s North-West Power Generation Company has signed an initial deal with Siemens AG of Germany to build an LNG-based power plant in Patuakhali’s Payra. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was...
Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital has no minimum fire safety measures, which hampered fire-dousing operations in Thursday's inferno. To avert any possible event of fire, the state-run Bangladesh Fire...
The government has taken a move to promote microenterprises across the country involving US$ 190 million. The new initiative aims to promote microenterprises in different rural areas, said a senior...
All players on the export front are not getting equal treatment in their access to the indirect incentives, though those regulatory facilities cost the government billions in the form of...
Customs Department of National Board of Revenue (NBR) has re-opened green and red channels at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) aiming to facilitate trade and passenger traffic and improve passenger...
United Nations aid agencies and NGO partners launched on Friday the 2019 Joint Response Plan (JRP) to tackle the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. The appeal seeks to raise USD920 million to...
President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the US.-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge...
The government is likely to allocate inadequate funds for hundreds of new projects which got approval in last 2-3 months of the past government, officials said on Friday. They said...
Poet Al Mahmud has died at a hospital in Dhaka at the age of 82. He breathed his last at the Ibn Sina Hospital at 11:05 pm on Friday, Abid...
Local pharmaceutical industry is failing to fortify its position in the global arena, though it dominates the domestic medicine market. While 97 per cent of the local market demand is...
Here is an attempt to focus on the diversity and relationship of some of the core issues that often figure in public discourse. These are: democracy, development, dis-integrity, disinflation (hyper...
One in nine people in the world does not have access to safe water. The case is worse in respect of children. One in five deaths of under-5 children is...
International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said the employment rate in Bangladesh and other countries in the region exceeded the global average and was expected to remain so in the coming...
That the government's project to digitise land records has run into a serious snag is bad news. In fact, ever since the government began to flag digitisation as one of...
After an exciting and exhilarating performances in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), that was widely acclaimed across the globe, Bangladesh embarked on embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , also...
Dr. Sultan Ahmed, Director General, Department of Environment recently visited the LHBL-Geocycle stall at a workshop titled Sustainable Management of Plastic to Leverage Circular Economy and achieve SDG in Bangladesh...
Corruption has been around the globe for a very long time and it will be around in the future unless governments and organisations can figure out effec-tive ways to combat...
When the Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations, met last month to discuss the growing new threats to world peace and security, the discussion veered away...
Use of libraries across the country is gradually turning more and more limited. This is sad. A good number of public libraries are not seeing enthusiastic readers and visitors. Borrowings...
Chittagong University students and authorities spent a sleepless night on Thursday as they mistook an egg-plant as a bomb. Witnesses said panic spread to such extent that first police and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has laid importance on more engagement of the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure universal health services for all. “As a global leader, the WHO needs...
Forty years are a long time for an organisation, particularly when it propagates habits, spirits and values contrary to the popular trend. On this score, Bishwo Shahitto Kendro and its...
According to the International Energy Agency, global energy consumption could see an increase of up to 18 per cent by 2030 and 39 per cent by 2050. This will increase...
The small and medium enterprise (SME) loan means financing provided by financial institutions in small and medium industries. Financial institutions provide loans to small and medium industries for arrangement...
There are thousands of people who would like to do business in the society but they can't do it due to a shortage of capital. Besides, some have started co-operative...
Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc, the two biggest US card networks, are preparing to increase certain fees levied on US merchants for processing transactions that will kick in this April....
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