বাবা ভাঙ্গার যত ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী

কে এই বাবা ভাঙ্গা?
বুলগেরিয়ায় জন্ম নেয়া বাবা ভাঙ্গা তাঁর জীবনে যত ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী করেছেন তার ৮৫ শতাংশই মিলে গেছে৷ ১৯৯৬ সালে ৮৫ বছর বয়সে তিনি মারা যান৷ কথিত আছে, রহস্যময় এক ঝড় তরুণী বাবা ভাঙ্গাকে উড়িয়ে নিয়ে এক মাঠে ফেলে দেয়৷ বেশ কদিন পর পরিবারের লোকজন তাকে খুঁজে পায়৷ কিন্তু বালু আর ময়লার কারণে ব্যথায় তিনি চোখ খুলতে পারছিলেন না৷ পরে অন্ধ হয়ে যান তিনি৷ Continue reading “বাবা ভাঙ্গার যত ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী” »

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Google Doodle celebrates Pohela Boishakh

Over the years, it has become a key element of Pohela Boishakh celebrations. The world’s most popular search engine has created a doodle depicting the Mongol Shobhajatra procession to welcome Pohela Boishakh, the first day of the Bangla New Year.

The doodle, featuring a tiger, has been on Google’s homepage since early Sunday.

Mongol Shobhajatra was inscribed on Unesco’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in November 2016.

The procession, introduced in Jessore in 1985—and replicated in Dhaka in 1989—features large colourful masks, carnival floats of birds and animals, and other motifs of Bangladeshi culture.

Over the years, it has become a key element of the Pohela Boishakh celebrations among Bangalis at home and abroad.

Radical Islamist groups and parties have been demanding that the procession be scrapped, dubbing it “anti-Islamic.”

Pohela Boishakh celebrations started during Mughal Emperor Akbar’s reign, when it was customary to clear all dues on the last day of the Bangla month Chaitra as businessmen would open “halkhata” —  new books of accounts for the new year.

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary, alteration of the logo on Google’s homepage that is intended to celebrate: holidays, events, achievements, and people. Google Doodles were introduced in 1998.

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Telecom is at a crossroad. The telecom business is starting to fail.

Ericsson and Nokia, the number two and three suppliers, have their debt rated as junk. Verizon is selling, what should have been its future, their cloud business, to IBM. AT&T is loosing wireless subscribers every quarter. Telefonica, the innovation leader, is scaling back its IoT Smart City business. Telecom as an industry is getting to a crossroad. Whatever road they take will decide their future. The closest resemblance is the moment IBM discovered that PCs and servers were a commodity. They decided to become a services and software company. Competitors of them did not. These competitors might not be around for many more years. Communication has been commoditised. Calls and SMSes are dead. Long live WhatsApp and others! Even Twilio, the SMS and call disruptor, is having problems. Continue reading “Telecom is at a crossroad. The telecom business is starting to fail.” »

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Mustafizur stars in landmark series win- Bangladesh v India, 2nd ODI, Mirpur

216075Bangladesh 200 for 4 (Shakib 51*, Ashwin 1-32) beat India 200 in 45 overs (Dhawan 53, Mustafizur 6-43) by six wickets (D/L method)

Mustafizur Rahman was the hero in Mirpur again, (off)cutting through India’s batting with a six-wicket haul to add to his five-for on ODI debut, and launching Bangladesh to their first ever bilateral series win against India. Mustafizur’s 6 for 43, the second best figures by a Bangladesh bowler in ODIs, skittled India for 200, before Shakib Al Hasan steered the chase with a busy fifty, his second on the trot.

With this six-wicket win, Bangladesh also cemented their place in the 2017 Champions Trophy. An overjoyed Mashrafe Mortaza, who has been a part of each of Bangladesh’s five victories against India, toasted his team’s “big achievement”.

Why Bangladesh’s target was 200
When the rains came, India were already eight wickets down after 43.5 overs. Because the game was revised to 47 overs per side, India lost out on some batting opportunity, but that loss was minimal as they were already eight down at the time of the interruption. According to the DLS calculations, the batting resources denied to Bangladesh at the start of their innings, compared to what they would have had in a full 50-over innings, was marginally more than the resources India lost out on.

Continue reading “Mustafizur stars in landmark series win- Bangladesh v India, 2nd ODI, Mirpur” »

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