Female students in the HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate) and equivalent examinations have outnumbered the male students in terms of pass rate this year.
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Scientists say China in leading position in space technology
China successfully launched the world’s first quantum communication satellite earlier this week and the feat proves that China is playing a leading role in terms of space technology, experts here say. Early Tuesday morning, the world’s first quantum satellite, nicknamed…
Oscar-nominated director Arthur Hiller dies
Oscar-nominated director and former Academy president Arthur Hiller died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Wednesday. He was 92. The Canadian-born filmmaker enjoyed a movie career spanning five decades that included the 1964 comedy “The Americanization of Emily,” ratings…
Japanese exports drop in July on surging yen
Japan’s exports in July suffered their sharpest monthly fall in seven years, data showed Thursday, as a surging yen clouds the country’s trade picture, with shipments of cars, ships and steel all tumbling. The gloomy export figures come despite Japan…
July 2016 hottest month on record: U.S. climate agency
It seems increasingly likely that 2016 will be hottest year on record, with each of the first seven months setting new temperature records. According to a monthly report released Wednesday by the U.S.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), last month…
Japan safari park worker killed in bear attack
A safari park employee in Japan died Tuesday after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said. An Asian black bear was seen climbing into a small vehicle at the Gunma…
Poet Shamsur Rahman’s 10th death anniversary today
Cultural Desk The 10th death anniversary of one of the major poets in modern Bengali literature, Shamsur Rahman, will be observed today. Different socio-cultural organisations have drawn up various programmes to mark the day. The programmes include placing wreaths at…
Global database for women exposed to Zika
Swiss doctors have asked thousands of colleagues worldwide to provide data for the first global registry of women exposed to Zika, the team’s lead researcher said Tuesday. Such a database is urgently needed to better understand the deadly virus and…
Four elephants killed by Sri Lankan train
A passenger train hit and killed an elephant and three calves in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the latest deadly accident involving the venerated animals. The herd was walking across a newly upgraded railway line that runs through a jungle…
Bhutanese team due this month for bandwidth import
A Bhutanese team would visit here this month to import bandwidth from Bangladesh to ensure its redundancy and meet domestic need. Talking to BSS, State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim said: “Bhutanese delegation is scheduled to arrive this…
Guns N’ Roses extend reunion tour to Japan, Australia
Guns N’ Roses on Tuesday announced concerts in Japan and Australia, extending a long-awaited reunion tour into 2017. The hard rock legends said they would play three shows in Japan in January—one in Osaka and two at Saitama Arena near…
New Zealand gov’t to ratify Paris climate change agreement
The New Zealand government will ratify the Paris agreement on climate change by the end of the year, Climate Change Issues Minister Paula Bennett said on Wednesday. “The Paris agreement is historic and changed the way the world thinks about…
Oil continues to rise as Russia talks, dollar slides
Oil prices were again bolstered on Tuesday as the US dollar weakened and Russia continued to hint at efforts to end the global supply glut. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate for September delivery rose 84 cents on the New…
Track your fitness with a weight-loss diary
Health Desk On the way to achieving fitness, you are bound to hit snags at many levels. Physical workouts and diet are the much talked about things on health and fitness. But, apart from them, there are many other ways…
Blood pressure control may reduce premature kidney deaths
A stringent blood pressure(BP) control regime may reduce the potential risk of early death among individuals suffering with chronic kidney disease, revealed a study. The study’s findings, published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, show that having…
Katy Perry’s fourth album to be out this fall?
Entertainment Desk Pop star Katy Perry will reportedly release her fourth record this winter. The album will feature music inspired by 31-year-old Perry’s relationship with actor boyfriend Orlando Bloom, reported Aceshowbiz. “Katy loves performing, so a large part of 2017…
Turn grieve into energy for national development: BRUR VC
Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) Professor Dr AKM Nurun Nabi has called for turning the grieve of Bangabandhu’s assassination into energy for accelerating national development. “Bangladesh would never come into being without Bangabandhu’s birth,” he said asking…
China launches world first quantum satellite
China launched the world’s first quantum satellite Tuesday, state media reported, in an effort to harness the power of particle physics to build an unbreakable system of encrypted communications. The launch took place at 1:40 am in the southwestern Gobi…
Sukanta Bhattacharya’s 90th birth anniversary observed
Culture Desk Yesterday (August 15) marked the 90th birth anniversary of legendary poet Sukanta Bhattacharya. He was born in 1926 in Kalighat, Kolkata. His ancestral home is at the village Unshiya, under Gopalganj district now, in Bangladesh. His father, Nibaran…
Brridhan-48 gains popularity in Barind tract
Rajshahi Correspondent Brridhan-48, a drought tolerant paddy variety innovated by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), has been gaining popularity among farmers in the region including its vast Barind tract for the last couple of years. The newly innovated paddy variety…
Hong Kong and Shanghai stocks advance at open
Hong Kong and Shanghai stocks opened higher on Tuesday on hopes the Chinese government will soon announce a date to link trading between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong bourses, and after a strong lead from Wall Street. The Hang Seng…
New blood test to detect Alzheimer’s in just 3 hours
A new low-cost biochip-based blood test that can identify people at a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease in just three hours has been developed. A new study showed that the test, which allows multiple tests to be run on one…
“Robin Hood” to be recreated for modern times
Entertainment Desk Acclaimed visual effects supervisor Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull has come on board to direct a futuristic take on Robin Hood in a feature being developed by Gianni Nunnari and his Hollywood Gang banner. The script by Tony Lee, a…
Drama for Mourning Day
Culture Desk Special drama for the National Mourning Day, “Smriter Minar” will be aired on Channel i today. Written and directed by Rana Masud the drama will be aired at 7.50pm. Dr Enamul Haq, Omar Ayaz Oni, Shamima Tushti and…
BRUR VC for ensuring quality in higher education
Rangpur Correspondent Vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) Professor Dr A K M Nurun Nabi has stressed for ensuring quality in higher education to produce properly educated and worthy citizens. “There is no alternative to quality higher education…
Syrian refugees invent app for Germany’s bureaucracy maze
Interminable queues, impenetrable paperwork, unpronounceable German words—the hurdles for any newcomer to Europe’s top economy can be daunting but now there’s an app for that, says a team of enterprising Syrian refugees. It’s called Bureaucrazy, after the often Kafkaesque process…
Suicide Squad’ stays alive, topping box office for a second week
Defying critics as well as competition from two new releases, the DC comics-inspired “Suicide Squad” topped the US box office for a second straight weekend, estimates from industry tracker Exhibitor Relations showed. The action film, in which Will Smith, Jared…
Japan’s economic growth fizzles out in second quarter
Japan’s economy stagnated in the second quarter, data showed Monday, falling below expectations and rekindling worries about the government’s faltering bid to stoke a recovery. Growth in the world’s third largest economy was flat at 0.0 percent quarter-on-quarter, missing economists’…
Climate change may put most cities off-limits for summer Olympics
An ongoing study suggests that rising heat and humidity due to climate change may put most cities around the world off-limits for summer Olympics. While findings of the study are still forthcoming and hold much broader implications than the future…
Flounders’ eyes face skyward. how do they see the ocean floor?
For flatfishes, you’d think things would always be looking up. These quick-change artists have eyes on top of their heads, yet marvelously mimic the surfaces they sit on. This prompted Clayton Louis Ferrara to ask Weird Animal Question of the…