Wednesday, October 31, 2012
ইসরাইলের ৫৪ ওয়েবসাইট হ্যাক করেছে বাংলাদেশের হ্যাকাররা
‘যেন এক নরকে বাস করছি’
ফেসবুকে যৌন নিপীড়নের ফাঁদ
পাকিস্তানে তত্ত্বাবধায়ক সরকারের অধীনে নির্বাচন! জানুয়ারিতে ভেঙে দেয়া হতে পারে পার্লামেন্ট
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
মেয়েদের মোবাইল ফোন দেবেন না, এতে তারা বেপরোয়া হয়
৭ মাস পায়ে হেঁটে হজে গেলেন সেনাদ
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
অন্তরঙ্গ মুহূর্তের ছবি প্রকাশ করে তোপের মুখে তান-লি
ভারতীয় দুই মায়ের কাহিনী
মাকে দেয়া কথা রাখলেন আমির খান
পরিবারের আরও ৮ সদস্য এবং একজন মাওলানাও সঙ্গে রয়েছেন। এ খবর দিয়েছে অনলাইন টাইমস অব ইন্ডিয়া। এতে বলা হয়, তিনি বায়তুল্লাহ’র আল খালিদ ট্যুরস-এ একটি হজ প্যাকেজ বুকিং দিয়েছিলেন। তার এই প্যাকেজের নাম ছিল প্লাটিনাম প্যাকেজ। এর অধীনে তিনি ও তার পরিবারের সদস্যরা হজের পবিত্র স্থাপনাসমূহের কাছাকাছি হোটেলে অবস্থান করবেন। সে জন্য টুইন-শেয়ারিং রুম ভাড়া নিয়েছেন। এতে খরচ পড়বে ৬ লাখ ৬৫ হাজার রুপি। এর বাইরে যদি কোন বাড়তি সুবিধা চান তাহলে অর্থ খরচ করলেই পেয়ে যাবেন সব। ওই রিপোর্টে বলা হয়েছে, আমির খান ও তার দল মক্কা শরিফে হোটেল আল মাসায় ও মদিনায় হোটেল এলাফ তাইবাতে অবস্থান করবেন। এ দুটি হোটেলই চার তারকা। তবে এ বিষয়ে বিস্তারিত জানাতে অস্বীকৃতি জানিয়েছেন সংশ্লিষ্ট কর্মকর্তারা। তারা বলেছেন, মাকে নিয়ে হজ করছেন আমির খান। এর চেয়ে সৌভাগ্য আর কি হতে পারে! এটাই আমির খানের প্রথম হজ। ওই রিপোর্টে বলা হয়, শুক্রবার মুম্বইয়ের স্থানীয় সময় সন্ধ্যা ৬টা ৩০ মিনিটে সৌদি এয়ারলাইন্সের সরাসরি ফ্লাইটে তারা মুম্বই ত্যাগ করেন। ২২শে অক্টোবর তারা মিনার উদ্দেশে যাত্রা করবেন। ২৬শে অক্টোবর মক্কা শরীফে তাওয়াফই জিয়ারত করবেন। ২৯শে অক্টোবর ফিরে যাবেন মদিনা। সেখান থেকে ২রা নভেম্বর তারা দেশে ফিরবেন।
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Man Arrested in New York Fed Bomb Plot
Thursday, 18 October 2012 13:04
Written by Sebastian Smith (AFP)
A Bangladeshi man with alleged al-Qaeda links was
arrested in New York on charges of trying to use a 1,000 pound bomb to
destroy the city's Federal Reserve building.Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in Manhattan after he tried to detonate what he thought was a live bomb, but was actually a dummy provided in a sting operation, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said.
Nafis traveled to the United States in January 2012 "for the purpose of conducting a terrorist attack on US soil," the federal prosecutor's office in Brooklyn said in a statement.
"Nafis, who reported having overseas connections to Al Qaeda, attempted to recruit individuals to form a terrorist cell inside the United States," the prosecutor's office said.
"Nafis also actively sought out Al Qaeda contacts within the United States to assist him in carrying out an attack. Unbeknownst to Nafis, one of the individuals he attempted to recruit was actually a source for the FBI."
Nafis allegedly wrote a statement claiming responsibility for his planned attack in which he said he wanted to "destroy America" and referred to slain al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden as "beloved."
He has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to support Al Qaeda.
Speaking from the family's home in Dhaka, a relative of Nafis said Thursday they had spoken to him only hours before his arrest on Wednesday and even discussed a possible bride for him.
"We heard the news this morning. Everyone is crying here," the 21-year-old's brother-in-law, who would only give his first name Arik, told AFP.
"Nafis never showed any form of radicalisation when he was in Bangladesh. He said prayers five times a day and used to read the holy Koran every day."
The relative said that Nafis had moved to the United States last year with one of his uncles and had originally gone to study at a university in Missouri but he later moved to New York.
FBI acting assistant director Mary Galligan said the attempt to "destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure."
But the suspect never posed an immediate risk because two people he thought were his accomplices "were actually an FBI source and an FBI undercover agent."
The Federal Reserve building, part of the network that makes up the US central bank, houses one of the world's largest gold deposits, consisting mostly of bullion belonging to other countries.
The criminal complaint alleges that Nafis had proposed several other possible targets, including the nearby New York Stock Exchange and an unnamed high-ranking US official.
The actual plot appeared to go forward smoothly for the alleged bomber, since every step of the way he was being helped by the undercover agents.
Early Wednesday, Nafis and an agent went by van to a warehouse in New York, prosecutors said, and the defendant said he was ready to do a suicide attack if his initial plan was thwarted.
He then assembled the bomb inside the van with phony explosives taken from the warehouse, the complaint says.
The agent and Nafis then drove to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, with Nafis finishing preparations to the fake bomb, while measures were taken among law enforcement bodies to make sure the vehicle was not stopped prematurely.
Once at the bank, Nafis recorded a "video statement to the American public" in which he allegedly said: "'We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom.'"
Only then Nafis discovered that his alleged bomb was a dud.
"Nafis then repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, attempted to detonate the bomb, which had been assembled using the inert explosives provided by the undercover agent," prosecutors said. He was arrested.
Loretta Lynch, US Attorney for the eastern district of New York, said: "The defendant came to this country intent on conducting a terrorist attack on US soil. The defendant thought he was striking a blow to the American economy.
"He thought he was directing confederates and fellow believers. At every turn, he was wrong, and his extensive efforts to strike at the heart of the nation's financial system were foiled."
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
অ্যাসাঞ্জের সঙ্গে লেডি গাগার ৫ ঘণ্টা
১৪ বছর বয়সী মানবাধিকার কর্মীকে গুলি
মগজ খেকো অ্যামিবা
তেলাপোকা খাওয়া প্রতিযোগিতা
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Physics Nobel goes to Serge Haroche and David Wineland
This
year's Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to two researchers for
their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level.
Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US will share the prize, worth 8m Swedish kronor (£750,000; $1.2m).Their "quantum optics" work deals with single photons and ions, the basic units of light and matter.
It could lead to advanced modes of communication and computation.
The Nobel citation said the award was for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".
Light and matter, when the minuscule scales of single particles are reached, behave in surprising ways in a part of physics known as quantum mechanics.
Working with light and matter on this level would have been unthinkable before the pair developed solutions to pick, manipulate and measure photons and ions individually, allowing an insight into a microscopic world that was once just the province of scientific theory.
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Their work has implications for
light-based clocks far more precise than the atomic clocks at the heart
of the world's business systems, and quantum computing, which may - or may not - revolutionise desktop computing as we know it.
But for physicists, the import of the pair's techniques is outlined in a layman's summary on the Nobel site:
they preserve the delicate quantum mechanical states of the photons and
ions - states that theorists had for decades hoped to measure in the
laboratory, putting the ideas of quantum mechanics on a solid
experimental footing.Those include the slippery quantum mechanical ideas of "entanglement" - the seemingly ethereal connection between two distant particles that underpins much work on the "uncrackable codes" of quantum cryptography - and of "decoherence", in which the quantum nature of a particle slowly slips away through its interactions with other matter.
The prize is the second in quantum optics in recent years; the theory behind decoherence formed part of 2005's Nobel physics prize citation.
'Overwhelming' Prof Haroche was reached by phone from the press conference. He had been told he had won just 20 minutes before telling reporters: "I was lucky - I was in the street and passing near a bench, so I was able to sit down immediately.
"I was walking with my wife going back home and when I saw the... Swedish code, I realised it was real and it's, you know, really overwhelming."
Prof Sir Peter Knight of the UK's Institute of Physics, said: "Haroche and Wineland have made tremendous advances in our understanding of quantum entanglement, with beautiful experiments to show how atomic systems can be manipulated to exhibit the most extraordinary coherence properties."
The Nobel prizes have been given out annually since 1901, covering the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.
Speculation had been rife, in light of the discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July, that Peter Higgs or his colleagues may have been in the running for the prize, but historically the prizes tend to honour discoveries after a period of years.
The first-ever Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Wilhelm Roentgen of Germany for his discovery of X-rays, and with this year's winners the total number of recipients has reached 194.
On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body.
This year's chemistry prize will be announced on Wednesday, with the literature and peace prizes to be awarded later in the week.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Birthdays of Nobel laurets
1986, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
James M. Buchanan Jr.
BORN: 1919-10-03
James M. Buchanan Jr.
BORN: 1919-10-03
1994, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Reinhard Selten
BORN: 1930-10-05
Reinhard Selten
BORN: 1930-10-05
1931, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Otto Heinrich Warburg
BORN: 1883-10-08
DEAD: 1970-08-01
Otto Heinrich Warburg
BORN: 1883-10-08
DEAD: 1970-08-01
1958, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
George Wells Beadle
BORN: 1903-10-22
DEAD: 1989-06-09
George Wells Beadle
BORN: 1903-10-22
DEAD: 1989-06-09
1999, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Robert A. Mundell
BORN: 1932-10-24
Robert A. Mundell
BORN: 1932-10-24
1952, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
BORN: 1914-10-28
DEAD: 1994-08-18
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
BORN: 1914-10-28
DEAD: 1994-08-18
1956, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Dickinson W. Richards
BORN: 1895-10-30
DEAD: 1973-02-23
Dickinson W. Richards
BORN: 1895-10-30
DEAD: 1973-02-23
1905, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
BORN: 1835-10-31
DEAD: 1917-08-20
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
BORN: 1835-10-31
DEAD: 1917-08-20
John A. Pople
BORN: 1925-10-31
DEAD: 2004-03-15
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