NEW DELHI: Indian Moon rover has confirmed the presence of sulphur on the lunar south pole, the country space agency said. Last week, India became the first country to land a craft near the largely unexplored south pole, and just the fourth nation to land on the Moon. "The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard Chandrayaan-3 Rover has made the first-ever in-situ measurements on the elemental composition of the lunar surface near the south pole," the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement dated Monday. Read More...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today invited foreign experts and lawyers to assess and scrutinize the documents submitted against Professor Muhammad Yunus whether there were any injustice or inconsistency or wrong prosecution, otherwise law will take its own course. The premier made this invitation at a media briefing as more than 160 global leaders including more than 100 Nobel Laureates in an open letter to the Prime Minister asking her to suspend the current judicial proceedings against Prof Yunus immediately. "I call upon those who have made this statement to send experts, lawyers and examine all the documents submitted against him (Prof Yunus) in the court to see whether there was any injustice or inconsistency. Otherwise our country has laws, courts, labor laws, labor courts and laws will take its own course," she said. Read More...
Prime Minister Private Sector Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman today said the entrepreneurs of the United States (US) are showing interest to invest more in Bangladesh seeing the present government various measures to develop the country. "US entrepreneurs are not worried about election. If they are worried, they would not have come for investment now. They have lauded the present government and its head Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for taking measures to make the country investment-friendly. They have good relations with the present government," he said. The PM adviser said this while talking with reporters after a meeting with a delegation of the US Chamber of Commerce at the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) headquarters in the city. Read More...
The Cabinet today gave the final approval to the draft of Cyber Security Act, 2023 which will replace the existing Digital Security Act. The approval came from the Cabinet meeting held at Prime Minister Office (PMO) in the city with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. "In the draft law, the offenses under four sections - 17, 19, 27 and 33, have been made non-bailable," Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain said while briefing reporters at the Secretariat here in this afternoon after the meeting. Replying to a query, he said the trial procedure of the ongoing cases filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) will be run following the same law. Read More...