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South Asia continues to remain polio free: WHO

The South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), comprising of 11 countries including Bangladesh, continues to remain polio free since the last case was reported in West Bengal, India, in January 2011. All countries in the Region continue to maintain a very high vigil for poliovirus detection and environmental surveillance - collection of samples from sewage - is being conducted regularly whoin India, said a WHO statement today. It said prompt and adequate response to vaccine-derived polio viruses (VDPVs) detect...

Dahala Khagrabari!

Dahala Khagrabari is a geopolitical anomaly. It's a piece of India that until very recently was completely surrounded by a piece of Bangladesh, which itself was completely surrounded by India, which was again completely surrounded by Bangladesh. An enclave is a piece of one country's territory which is entirely surrounded by another country's territory, and the India-Bangladesh border was filled with them before 2015, when they were eliminated by a treaty between the two countries. A second-order enclave is an enclave inside an enclave, and the world has a handful of them. But in the history of the world

‘Hack the Pentagon’ reveals 138 security flaws

Hackers invited by the US government as part of a pilot program to find flaws with five Pentagon websites discovered 138 security vulnerabilities, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. The “Hack the Pentagon” event, the first “bug bounty” in the history of the federal government, attracted 1,410 computer-savvy Americans, according to the Defense Department. The program cost $150,000, with about half of that going to hackers, reports AFP. “It’s not a small sum, but if we had gone through the normal process of hiring an outside firm to Pantagon

RU demands justice of its professor’s killing

Teachers and students of Rajshah University English department continued their demonstration on the campus on Saturday, the 56 days of the murder of killing Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, demanding justice into killing.

At 11am, teachers and students of the department brought out a silent procession from ruShohidullah Khola building on campus which ended at a brief rally in Mukul Monch, a makeshift platform set up after nick name of slain professor.

Addressing the rall...

Govt to promote mobile app development

The Bangladesh government has started up a BDT 2.82 billion project to develop mobile applications for both local and international markets. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved the project, which will earthquake buddybe implemented with domestic resources in the period through 2018. Mobile game and app development academies will be established at eight divisional headquarters, while mobile game and app labs, app testing labs and training points will be set up at local educational...

‘Digital Creative Industry Forum’ kicks off

The British Council and National Skills Development Council Secretariat (NSDC-S) organised a ‘Digital Creative Industry Forum’ at the NSDC Secretariat premises on Thursday, 16 June, 2016. The Forum brought together some of the leading professionals in the field of Digital Creatives to discuss the opportunities and challenges the sector has in ensuring a talent pipeline and ongoing professionalisation of the sector. The importance of the sector is recognised by Government of Bangladesh, and this initial meeting explored the new role of Industry Skills
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