Photo: Guests at the launching ceremony of AfterAccess surveys regarding Bangladesh at a city hotel on Tuesday. Dhaka, Oct 2 : A recently released research report shows that by late 2017 only 13 percent of Bangladeshis aged 15-65 used the Internet and social media. This is despite 45 percent of the same age group owning an Internet-friendly device. The findings ...

Three researchers on Tuesday shared the Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in industry and medicine, the jury said.   Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the prize, while Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada shared the other ...

An eight-year-old child was killed and at least nine other people injured on Tuesday when a homemade bomb went off in a suburb of the Indian city of Kolkata, police said.   India’s eastern West Bengal state, of which Kolkata is the capital, has a long history of political violence and targeted killings of rival party activists.  “The crude bomb ...

Dhaka, Oct 2 : A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Tuesday between Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) and Futamura Chemical Ltd., a United Kingdom-based company, for producing ‘Sonali Bag’ commercially. Sonali Bag is a biodegradable and environment-friendly jute-made ploy bag. BJMC Secretary AKM Tareq (Deputy Secretary) and Graeme Coulthard, general manager of Futamura Chemical Ltd., signed the MoU ...

Thirteen people were killed and at least 30 more injured on Monday when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the Sierra Leone capital, a military spokesman said. The open-air truck was carrying more than 40 soldiers from their barracks to a funeral in Freetown when its brakes failed as it descended a steep hill. It ...

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured in South Sudan after a hand grenade exploded in a nightclub packed with revellers. Some 500 people were dancing at a venue in the western city of Yambio on Friday when an attacker threw the missile into the crowd, according to police commissioner James Monday Enoka.   “We found ...

The number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than 1,200, the country’s disaster response agency says. The death toll jumped on Tuesday from a previous confirmed figure of 844.   The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that hit the coastal ...

Chancellor also says UK may soon have to tax internet firms such as Amazon and Google Philip Hammond has warned the Treasury’s austerity programme will come under attack from what he called “populists and demagogues” among Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters, but claimed it would retain the backing of the British people. The chancellor said he would withhold funds to protect the ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Jalalabad Association UK has formed its full executive committee enhance and embolden the relationships among all Non-resident Bangladeshis of Sylhet division. In order to form the full committee the organisation held a meeting on 26th of September in a restaurant in East London and declared the committee naming Muhibur Rahman Muhib as President, Aminul Haque Zilu as ...

Fatema Miah: Our ecology is essential for our living; provides vegetation, photosynthesise carbondioxide into oxygen. Our Climate experts now have thought about to put a price on our ecology to compensate to the vaulnebles and those most effected. Our ecology has come under threat, and there have been damages caused to our ecology diversity vastly  since our western modernised Industrialisation ...