A nanosatellite, designed by Bangladesh’s three prodigious students, has been fired into the orbit from the International Space Station.‘BRAC Onnesha’ is now orbiting the earth after a successful launch from the ISS on Friday. Onnesha denotes search or exploration in…
Yuma, Jul 3 (AP/UNB) – A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has quietly completed a test flight in Arizona after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing.
Dhaka – Long tailbakcs on highways have put people who started their journey home into immense sufferings on Thursday. Failure of the railwayb signalling system on the other hand put schedule of special Eid Trains in disarray. An estimate made…
Bangladeshi mountaineer Musa Ibrahim will return home on Thursday as the dispute over payment with the helicopter company got settled through discussion. “Bangladesh, I’m coming home,” he wrote on his Facebook wall on Tuesday morning saying the problem is solved…
Foreign climbers and Sherpas on Mount Everest are concerned about the increasing theft of oxygen bottles from high camps. They say it could threaten the lives of mountaineers because they each have a set supply for weather and traffic-related delays,…
Kathmandu, May 24 (AP/UNB)- A government official and a rescue coordinator say four bodies have been found inside a tent at the highest camp on Mount Everest.
By Sohara Mehroze Shachi Dhaka, May 4 (IPS) – New technology could be the answer to reducing negative climate impacts of aviation – one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gases. And a recent quantitative research at North South University…
Bangkok, May 3 (AP/UNB)- In one corner: the unpredictable dictator, the third-generation family ruler whose nation has a seven-decade reputation of being erratic, quick to take umbrage and insistent that it is powerful enough to upend the planet. In the…
Dubbed the “Swiss Machine” for his daring speed climbs in the Himalayas, Ueli Steck was on Mount Everest to acclimatize before attempting to summit the world’s tallest peak next month. He wanted to take a rarely-used route. Mingma Sherpa of…
Dhaka – Members of smaller countries of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) yesterday raised their voices to bring some amendments of the IPU resolution adopted in Geneva on the issue of outside interference on the sovereign states. They said the developed…
Dhaka – BDCyclists, a community based social network of cyclists, has broken the Guinness World Records of Longest single line of moving bicycles.
Wellington, Jan 16 (AP/UNB) — New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 7 wickets in the first cricket test at the Basin Reserve on Monday to take a 1-0 lead in the two-test series: Bangladesh 595-8 (Shakib Al Hasan 217, Mushfiqur Rahim 159,…
By Noah Kulwin Google was the first major tech company to get into self-driving vehicles, revealing its initial prototype in the spring of 2014. Now, two and a half years later, the company is ready turn its research into a…
President Barack Obama has ordered an investigation into a series of cyber-attacks, blamed on Russia, that shook the US election season. The hacks targeted emails at the Democratic Party and a key aide to presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Dhaka (AP/UNB)-Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines — the smallest ever built. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa…
Los Angeles (AP/UNB) — A new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles has become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.
San Francisco (AP/UNB) — The mother of an 18-year-old man who was one of two skydivers who died plummeting into a northern California vineyard said her son was jumping for the first time. Francine Salazar told a newspaper Sunday that…
Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has got the 24 Hours Le Mans classic endurance race underway in difficult weather conditions.
About 30 climbers have suffered frostbite or become ill on Mount Everest, after two more died from apparent altitude sickness. Two Indian climbers have also been reported missing in the mountain’s so-called “death zone” near the summit.
By Junaid Tahir A New Year’s resolution is a self commitment that a person makes to achieve personal goals, projects, or reforming of a bad habit. This commitment is the driving force to perform the corrective and preventive actions throughout…
Danielle Nierenberg International Youth Day takes place on Wednesday, August 12th to celebrate youth and their ability to help create a better world. The theme of this year’s event is youth civic engagement to encourage young women and men to…
Infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who daringly escaped prison on July 11, utilized a tunnel leading from the only “supermax” maximum-security prison in Mexico, where he’d been held. At least that’s the explanation Mexican authorities have given as…