Amazon’s next Kindle might not just be for bookworms. The company has registered the “kindlescribe.com” and “kindlescribes.com” domains, leading to speculation that the next Kindle will include a stylus for note taking. Fusible discovered the domains, which Amazon registered on August 20. As Business Insider notes, the e-reader could use a touch-sensitive E-Ink display, [...]
Muammar Gaddafi’s once powerful son, Saif al-Islam, made a defiant appearance in Tripoli on Monday night to disprove the revolutionaries’ claim to have arrested him and to proclaim ultimate victory. Saif al-Islam, 39, arrived in an armoured vehicle waving two fingers in a victory sign at a hotel where foreign journalists are staying in [...]
India batsman Sachin Tendulkar missed out on a historic 100th international century on the final day of the fourth Test against England at The Oval. The 38-year-old, who has 51 Test match hundreds and 48 one-day international tons, would have become the first man to reach the milestone. However, he has was trapped lbw [...]
The evolution and spread of trees stabilised river banks and changed landscapes around the world forever, geologists say. Before the switch, broad, shallow, braided river channels could spread and migrate endlessly from side to side. Only when tree-like plants with deep roots took hold some 330 million years ago did river banks finally come [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday decided to set a uniformed per share face value for share and mutual funds at Tk 10 from December 1, 2011. The regulator announced that all companies must convert their face values to Tk 10 by November 30 this year. The decisions were disclosed at a press [...]
Awami League (AL) general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday said that a conspiracy was underway to prepare a ground to eliminate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A similar ploy was tuned prior to the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, he said. Ashraf said abortive attempts have already been made to kill [...]
The National Human Rights Commission chairman, Mizanur Rahman, on Monday urged the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to remove inefficient ministers from the cabinet. ‘It [removing the ministers] will be the most precious Eid gift of the prime minister to the people of the country,’ Mizan told a roundtable at the Dhaka Reporters Unity. Speaking [...]