All aboard the train of tomorrow
The long-coveted inauguration of the metro rail project is close at hand. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to spearhead the ceremony on December 28.
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The future of power
Fusion researchers at a national laboratory in the US have achieved something physicists have been working towards for decades, a process known as “ignition.” This step involves getting more energy out from fusion reactions than is put in by a laser.
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Dacca Diary: Friday, December 17th, 1971
Chat with the hotel laundry bookkeeper who has emerged as a Mukti police inspector. Turns out he had been Mukti cell leader for Intercontinental Hotel staff during past nine months.
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Dhaka TribuneCPJ urges Twitter to restore accounts of suspended journalists
Twitter should immediately reinstate the journalists whose accounts it suspended without notice and explicitly commit to practices that defend a free and independent media, Jodie Ginsberg, president of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement Friday.
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Elon Musk photo and Twitter logo are seen through magnifier in this illustration taken November 4, 2022 ReutersBangladesh demands accountability for attacks on peacekeepers
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations (UN) Muhammad Abdul Muhith on Thursday said accountability must be ensured for attacks on peacekeepers.
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File photo: Bangladesh is one of the largest troop contributing nations to the UN peacekeeping missions MONUSCO/ABEL KAVANAGHUS model predicts 1m China Covid deaths through 2023
China's abrupt lifting of stringent Covid-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
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A medical worker hands fever medicine to a resident at a makeshift fever clinic set up inside a stadium in Beijing, China, December 14, 2022 Reuters
Russia fires scores of missiles in one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine
Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to implement emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said.
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Rescuers work at the site of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine December 16, 2022 Reuters