Bangladesh DGHS MBBS Admission Test Results 2011-2012

Bangladesh DGHS MBBS Admission Test Results 2011-2012Hello dear friends here you will get Bangladeshi DGHS MBBS Admission Test Results 2011-2012 Published. A total of 43,644 candidates vied for 2509 seats in 18 public medical colleges and 3550 seats in 43 private medical colleges this year, said Prof Khandaker Shefayet Ullah, medical education director at the Directorate General of Health Services on Sunday. A total...

Emotional intelligence seen as key to job performance

NEW YORK, Oct 28 (breakingnews99.com) - Measuring the emotional intelligence of employees, from their ability to read body language to controlling frustration, could be good for business, according to a new study. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) suggest that gauging emotional intelligence may be an indicator of how well employees will perform in their jobs. "Emotional intelligence is the ability...

UK spy boss: Nukes a wider threat than terrorism

Photo: John Sawers UK spy boss: Nukes a wider threat than terrorism LONDON, Oct 28 (breakingnews99.com) - Britain's top spy, in the first public speech by a serving UK espionage chief, said on Thursday terrorists might hit the West again "at huge human cost" but nuclear proliferation by states was a more far-reaching danger. Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief John Sawers, in a address to the Society...

Biman grounds to a halt

Biman grounds to a halt Biman grounds to a halt Dhaka, Oct 28 (http://breakingnews99.blogspot.com) — Biman has cancelled all flights scheduled on Friday and Saturday, except Hajj flights. The national flag carrier's public relations officer, Khan Mosharraf                               Hossain, told bdnews24.com that the airline was compelled...

George Michael freed from jail, vows new start

George Michael LONDON, Oct 11(breakingnews99.com) - British pop singer George Michael was released from prison on Monday after serving four weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis. The 47-year-old was sentenced to eight weeks in jail last month after he smashed his car into the facade of a London shop in July. "I'm coming out here on my own so that you realize I'm going to start again," Michael told...

Bosnian minister cancels Jolie's filming permit

Bosnian minister SARAJEVO, Oct 14 (breakingnews99.com) - A Bosnian minister canceled on Wednesday a permit for Hollywood star Angelina Jolie to shoot parts of her debut feature film in Bosnia, citing incomplete paperwork.  The Oscar-winning actress has begun shooting the film in Budapest and her production company said it was a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of...

Harry Potter 3D release cancelled

Dhaka, Oct 9 (breakingnews99.com) -- The 3D version of the next Harry Potter film has been ditched so as not to delay its release in standard 2D, Warner Bros Studios has said. The studio said it could not complete the 3D conversion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 in time for its 19 November UK and US release date, BBC reports. Warner Bros said it did not want to keep fans waiting for the film. Harry...

Diabetes to double or triple in US by 2050

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (breakingnews99.com) - Up to a third of US adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected on Friday. The numbers are certain to go up as the population gets older, but they will accelerate even more unless Americans change their behavior, the CDC said. "We project that, over the next 40 years, the prevalence of total diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) in the United States will increase from its current...

Vatican keeps up attack on Nobel committee over IVF

VATICAN CITY, Oct 5 (breakingnews99.com) - The Vatican kept up its attack on the Nobel committee on Tuesday for giving the medicine prize to in-vitro fertilisation pioneer Robert Edwards, saying he had led to a culture where embryos are seen as commodities. For the second straight day, it gave the thumbs down to the choice of Edwards, whose success in fertilising a human egg outside of the womb led to "test tube babies" and innovations such as embryonic stem cell research and surrogate motherhood. The Vatican ratcheted up...

Russian-US crew heads for space station

MOSCOW, Oct 8 (breakingnesw99.com) - A Russian spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a US astronaut to the international space station lifted off early on Friday from Russia's launch site in Kazakhstan. Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Scott Kelly are to join three other crew members on the orbital station after a two-day trip from Earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-01M, an upgraded model of a Soviet-designed standby....

US-Japanese team wins 2010 chemistry Nobel

STOCKHOLM , Oct 6 (breakingnews99.com) – An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for a tool that makes it easier to build complex chemicals, including those that could help in the fight against cancer. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the prize for the development of "palladium-catalysed cross-coupling," the Nobel Committee for Chemistry at the...

US/Japanese scientists win Nobel for chemical tool

STOCKHOLM, Oct 6 (breakingnews99.com) - A US and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for inventing new ways to bind carbon atoms with uses that range from fighting cancer to producing thin computer screens. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the prize for the development of "palladium-catalysed cross-coupling", the Nobel Committee for Chemistry at the Royal Swedish...

Scientists use seals, gliders to unlock ocean secrets

SINGAPORE, Oct 15 (breakingnews99.com) - Scientists are outfitting elephant seals and self-propelled water gliders with monitoring equipment to unlock the oceans' secrets and boost understanding of the impacts of climate change. Oceans regulate the world's climate by soaking up heat and shifting it around the globe. They also absorb huge amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide, acting as a brake on the pace of climate change. But scientists say they need to ramp up a global monitoring network, with the Southern Ocean between...

First babies born in IVF full gene screening study

LONDON, Oct 17 (breakingnews99.com) - Two women have given birth to healthy babies from eggs screened for genetic defects before being implanted in the womb, in a study of a new technique that could improve the success rate of in-vitro fertilization. Twin girls born in Germany in June and a boy born in Italy in September are the first deliveries in a pilot study of a technique called comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) by microarray, European scientists said on Friday. The technique is a new way of screening eggs and...

China to launch manned space lab around 2020

BEIJING, Oct 27 (breakingnews99.com) - China said on Wednesday it would launch a space lab to be manned for long stretches within about 10 years, a move it believes would bring it closer to the United States and Russia as powers capable of reaching the moon. The official Xinhua news agency, quoting an unidentified space official, said a trial space lab would be launched before 2016 to test equipment and techniques. But it was not clear if that lab would be manned for long periods. The space station programme will use existing...

'Contractors for hi-tech park soon'

Dhaka, Oct 7 (breakingnews99.com) – The government has taken initiative to set up a hi-tech park at Kaliakoir, near Dhaka and its implementation will begin soon with the appointment of contractors. Bangladesh Computer Council has been given responsibilities to finalise the tendering process for the project. The decision was taken at the maiden meeting of the executive committee of the hi-tech authorities on Thursday with state minister for science and information and communication technology Yafes Osman in the chair. BCC's...

Cellphones move into cars, to hit satnav makers

BARCELONA, Oct 7 (breakingnews99.com) - Technology that allows cellphones to be used as navigation devices in cars took a step forward on Thursday, putting more pressure on the makers of in-car satnav systems. German car industry group Consumer Electronics for Automotive (CE4A) unveiled a standard for the technology, which is being pushed by Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker. The personal navigation device (PND) industry, led by TomTom and Garmin, has been hit badly by competition from navigation-enabled smartphones....

Microsoft launches new phones, available Nov. 8

SEATTLE/NEW YORK, Oct 11 (breakingnews99.com) - Microsoft Corp unveiled a new line of phones running its Windows software on Monday, as it attempts to pull back market share from Apple Inc's iPhone and Google Inc's Android system in the fast-growing market for multi-featured "smartphones." The world's largest software company is hoping that the new phones, from handset makers Samsung, LG, HTC and Dell Inc, will propel...

Google impresses Street with mobile, display ad growth

Oct 15 (breakingnews99.com) - At least nine brokerages raised their price targets on Google Inc Friday, a day after the Web search engine leader cheered investors with its third-quarter results and unveiled the strength of its display advertising and mobile segments. "Combined with licensing revenues, there is a $4.5 billion in non-search revenue run rate, suggesting diversification is better than many thought and investments are driving growth," BofA Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post wrote on a note to clients. Investors...

Internet users to exceed 2 bln this year : UN agency

GENEVA, Oct 19 (Breakingnews99.com) - The number of Internet users will surpass two billion this year, approaching a third of the world population, but developing countries need to step up access to the vital tool for economic growth, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday. Users have doubled in the past five years, and compare with an estimated global population of 6.9 billion, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said. Of 226 million new Internet users this year, 162 million will be from developing countries...

China unveils its own version of Google Earth

China unveils its own version of Google Earth BEIJING, Oct 22 (Breakingnews99.com) - A Chinese government body has released its own online mapping service, designed to compete with Google Earth's popular satellite mapping service, that could spell more trouble for Google's services in the mainland. Google and China have been at odds since last year, when a serious hacking attack originating from China prompted Google...

Internet, telecoms may see disruption

Internet, telecoms may see disruption Dhaka, Oct 27 (Breakingnews99.com) — Bangladesh's telephone and internet may be disrupted during the early hours of Thursday. Mohammad Monwar Hossain, managing director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, told Breakingnews99.com that consumers may face trouble between 1am and 4am. During this time, as part of a maintenance work, two repeaters on the SMW-4 Submarine Cable...

Russia appeals to Iraq to not execute Aziz

Russia appeals to Iraq to not execute Aziz                 Dial 2000 from your GP mobile for latest news   MOSCOW, Oct 28 (BreakingNews99) - Russia called on Iraq on Wednesday not to carry out the death sentence on Tareq Aziz on humanitarian grounds, its foreign ministry said. The Vatican has also appealed against the sentence which was passed by Iraq's high tribunal...

Pakistan v South Africa, 2nd Twenty20, Abu Dhabi

Pakistan v South Africa, 2nd Twenty20, Abu Dhabi Clinical South Africa sweep series with easy win Another day, another batting collapse from Pakistan. They were shot out for 120 and it was too little to defend even for their talented bowling attack....

Noble Interview of Andre Geim

Nobel Prize 2010 of Andre GeimInterview, October 2010                                                                                                        ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010

Biography Of Andre Geim : Born: 1958,Sochi, RussiAffiliation at the time of the award: University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kinged Prize motivation: "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material grapheme&nb...

Nobel Prize 2010 of Andre Geim

Photo Gallery of Andre GeimNobel Prize 2010 of Andre GeimPhoto Gallery :  Andre Geim Graphene is an atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms.Photo: Alexander Alus, licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0     Graphene nanofabric. Scanning electron micrograph of a strongly crumpled graphene sheet on a silicon wafer. Note that it looks just like silk thrown...

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