Treating their avid fanbase to a little more behind the scenes excitement, Summit Entertainment has released a new batch of stills from “Breaking Dawn Part I”. The latest round of movie-based shots include co-stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a number of cuddly poses while also including fellow cast members Ashley [...]
Making computers behave like humans has taken another step forward. IBM on Thursday announced it has created a chip designed to imitate the human brain’s ability to understand its surroundings, act on things that happen around it and make sense of complex data. Instead of requiring the type of programming that computers have needed [...]
Five new items have been included in the revised list of 61 items, against which duty-free market access to India has been sought, a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Potato, MS (Mild Steel) Rod, Bar Angle, lubricant oil and Coriander seed are the new items included in the revised list. [...]
Asian stocks extended losses, with South Korea’s benchmark shedding 5 percent on Friday on growing fears the US economy was sliding into recession and as some European lenders faced short-term funding strains, raising fears of a systemic banking crisis on the continent. Spot gold rose more than 1 percent to an all-time high of [...]
The US and Europe have dramatically increased the pressure on the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, with Barack Obama leading a demand by world leaders for him to surrender power. Obama declared the “sustained onslaught” of Assad’s regime against pro-democracy protesters had cost it all legitimacy. The US president was joined by David Cameron, French [...]
Suicide attackers have stormed the British Council office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least eight people and taking over the compound. After a suicide car bomb destroyed the compound wall, a number of heavily armed men forced their way inside. Gunfire can still be heard in the area, which was rocked by another [...]
The hurried method lunched by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) to repair dilapidated highways across the country especially Dhaka-Mymenshing road will be simply a waste of money, top contractors claimed. They said the cost for the spot quotation to repair the potholes will half of the regular costing but these repair will only [...]
Bangladesh and India will sign in Dhaka the strip maps delineating the agreed international land boundary between the two countries today, an official of the Department of Land Record and Survey told New Age. Bangladesh high commissioner to New Delhi Tariq A Karim and the Indian high commissioner in Dhaka Rajeet Mitter would sign the [...]