After a months-long contest among U.S. students to name NASA’s latest Mars rover, the agency will reveal the name of the rover Thursday, according to a release of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday. The Mars 2020 rover was the subject of a nationwide naming contest in 2019, which drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from across ...

Photo : A motorcyclist rides past the Bank Negara Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia’s central bank reduced its key overnight policy rate by 0.25 percentage points to 2.5% on Tuesday, citing worsening economic conditions from the virus outbreak in a growing number of countries. The Bank Negara Malaysia said it expects economic growth to be stunted in this quarter ...

Samsung Galaxy S20 vs Plus vs Ultra Samsung’s latest Galaxy S20 flagship can make you break up with your dearest Smartphone. Ending all the leaks and rumors, Samsung is releasing their awaited Galaxy Series flagship smartphones S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra on 6th March, 2020 in the USA. Though this trio share some common features, the Ultra model is ...

Emirates planes are parked at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Major disruptions due to the new coronavirus have already caused the equivalent of a roughly $100 million loss to airline carriers in the Middle East region.  File Photo Major travel disruptions due to the new coronavirus have already caused the equivalent of a roughly $100 million ...

Walton, a local electronics and ICT product manufacturer, has begun exporting  ‘Made-in-Bangladesh’ smartphones to the United States (US) and air-conditioner to India. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the export process on Sunday while visiting factories of Walton Hi-Tech Industries Ltd at Chandra of Gazipur. Five other projects, including an elevator factory, were launched in his presence. “Countrymen are happy ...

Easy Build has introduced full-fledged services on clients’ demand and likings to build a house with all architectural, structural, plumbing and electrical drawings facilities. Rahat Zahan Shamim, chief operating officer, Easy Build, said everyone has a dream to have his/her own house. Perhaps some people have their own lands to build house. But many don’t dare to start construction activities ...

Italy was the first European country to report a major surge in cases of the coronavirus, with numbers quickly climbing into the hundreds. The authorities have responded with travel restrictions in the north of the country that are bound to hit the economy. So far, a number of towns in Lombardy in northern Italy have been locked down, with very ...

Photo : A trader works at New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States. U.S. stocks closed mixed on Friday after a volatile trading session, as investors continued to flee riskier assets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 357.28 points, or 1.39 percent, to 25,409.36. The S&P 500 fell 24.54 points, or 0.82 percent, to 2,954.22. The ...

Search engine giant Google is celebrating the leap year date  with an animated doodle. This is further illustrated with Google Doodle’s home page saying, “We HOP you have a good one—Happy Leap Day!.” February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2016, 2020, ...

Scientists have detected evidence of a colossal explosion in space – five times bigger than anything observed before. The huge release of energy is thought to have emanated from a supermassive black hole some 390 million light years from Earth. The eruption is said to have left a giant dent in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.Researchers reported their findings in The Astrophysical ...