Lil Bub, one of the internet’s most famous cats, has died aged eight, reports BBC. The cat’s owner, Mike Bridavsky, announced her death to millions of followers on social media on Monday.Lil Bub was best known for her unusual appearance – bulbous eyes and a protruding tongue. She was rescued as a feral kitten and was born with several disorders, ...

B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before blackouts and bigger disasters. The electrical engineering professor at Texas A&M University figured he might save a life if his creation could prevent someone from being electrocuted by a downed live wire. But fire prevention may be his product’s biggest ...

This year’s Black Friday was the biggest ever for online sales, as fewer people hit the stores and shoppers rang up $7.4 billion in transactions from their phones, computers and tablets. That’s just behind the $7.9 billion haul of last year’s Cyber Monday, which holds the one-day record for online sales, according to Adobe Analytics. Adobe measures sales at 80 ...

Germany’s unemployment rate was static at 4.8% in November as the labor market remained robust despite the lackluster performance of Europe’s biggest economy. The Federal Labor Agency said Friday some 2.18 million people were registered as unemployed, 24,000 fewer than the previous month and 6,000 fewer than a year earlier. The unadjusted jobless rate – the headline figure in Germany ...

Chinese Company M/s. Y & F Healthcare Ltd. will invest US$ 10 million in Mongla Export Processing Zone (EPZ) to produce diversified products in medical sector. In the presence of Executive Chairman of Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) Major General S M Salahuddin Islam, member of BEPZA Zillur Rahman and Managing Director of M/s. Y & F Healthcare Ltd ...

Photo: Courtesy Secretary-General of International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Kitack Lim has deeply appreciated various initiatives taken by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government to improve ship recycling standards in Bangladesh. Lim while addressing seminar on “Ship Recycling for Sustainable Development: Perspective from Bangladesh and the Region” held recently, appreciated the enactment of the Bangladesh Ship Recycling Act in 2018 and ...

Who can forget the supremacy of Nokia who won the heart of millions of people worldwide through their top quality smartphones under reasonable price-range? Nokia’s branded company HMD Global is gearing up to regain this pride. Recently, this company has announced the arrival of their upcoming gadget Nokia 10 Pureview 5G Smartphone. Like a king Nokia 10 is gonna amaze ...

Emirates on Monday declared that it would add a new daily flight between Dhaka and Dubai considering the increasing trend of Bangladesh’s international travelers, reports BSS. “The fourth daily flight will be operated from June 1, 2020 by a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft with 42 business class and 310 economy class seats,” Emirates’ Bangladesh Country Manager Saeed Abdulla Miran told reporters ...

Photo: Courtesy Bangladesh Bank on Sunday withdrew its restriction on buying products online from international market place using credit cards. A circular issued by the central bank’s Foreign Exchange Policy Department (FEPD), said that to bring further simplification in online transactions, it has been decided to waive Online Transaction Authorization Form (OTAF) formalities for online payments abroad through international cards ...

President pushes for onion boycott to teach hoarders a lesson Photo: Onion traders sleeping at Karwanbazar wholesale market for lack of buyers on Nov 18, 2019. Despite its huge import, the price of onion saw a further rise by Tk 15-20 both at the wholesale and retail markets in the capital on Saturday with traders blaming it on a high ...