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Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf


The latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 7, is available for pre-order in the UK.

Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period.

The home version of the operating system costs around £50, while the professional version costs around £100.

The limited number of pre-ordered copies will be shipped on 22 October, the same day it goes on sale in stores.

Pre-orders are available from a number of retailers, with the period ending on 9 August.

Analysts IDC predict that some 177 million copies of the operating system will be in place by the end of 2010, 50 million of which will be in Europe. The firm estimates that products and services surrounding Windows 7 will generate $320bn (£195bn).

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The software requires a "clean install", meaning that prior versions of Windows cannot be upgraded to Windows 7 and will have to be removed before its installation.

Because of a recent European Commission anti-trust ruling, Windows 7's European version will not be integrated with Windows' Internet Explorer, meaning that a browser will have to be installed separately.

"Both Windows 7 upgrade packages shot to the top of the Amazon.com software bestsellers chart over in the US as soon as they were made available for pre-order at the end of June," said Chris Poad, software director at Amazon UK.

"With the significant discount currently on offer, a similar level of high demand was expected in the UK for what is undoubtedly the biggest software release for many years."

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Iranian air crash


At least 168 passengers and crew are feared dead after a Caspian Airlines plane crashed in the north of Iran, state media says.

Wreckage was spread over a large area in a field in Jannatabad village, Qazvin province, about 75 miles (120km) north-west of Tehran, state TV said.

The Tupolev aircraft was flying from the Iranian capital to Yerevan in Armenia, Iranian media said.

The cause of the crash, which happened soon after take-off, was not known.

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"The 7908 Caspian flight crashed 16 minutes after its take-off from the International Imam Khomeini Airport," Iran's Aviation Organisation spokesman, Reza Jafarzadeh, was quoted by Iranian Press TV as saying.

An eyewitness said the plane dropped out of the sky and exploded on impact.

The Qazvin Fire Department Chief said residents began calling emergency services about noon local time after seeing thick smoke.

"After going to the crash scene and scouting, we found that the area of the disaster is very wide and wreckage of the crashed plane have been thrown around as far as 150 to 200m," he said.

Television footage showed a massive crater in a field, with smouldering debris over a wide area.

Jon Leyne
From Jon Leyne, BBC correspondent:
Iran has a notoriously bad air safety record. Because of sanctions imposed by the United States, Iran relies on an increasingly ageing fleet of airliners, and has trouble buying spares.

There are tales of aircrew buying spare parts on flights to Europe, then sneaking them back to Iran in the cockpit. While those sanctions don't apply to aircraft from Russia and Ukraine, many planes from those countries in the Iranian fleet also appear well past their best.

For some people, flying in Iran can be a nerve-wracking experience. Stepping on board, it often becomes quickly apparent you are in a plane that has done many years service.

There are also frequent delays because of the shortage of aircraft. Iranian engineers and aircrew do their best to keep their fleets in service.

Mr Jafarzadeh said there were no irregularities reported before the plane took off.

"The regulations of the State Aviation Organisation do not allow a plane to take off before security of the plane is 100% approved," he told Iranian television.

"As to why this happened and what problem the plane ran into, we will need to carry out a thorough investigation of all contributing elements."

The plane was built in Russia in 1987.

A Caspian Airlines representative told Associated Press news agency that most of the passengers were Armenians, with some Georgian citizens also on board.

It was unclear if other nationalities were involved.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered his condolences to the families of the victims.

Ten members of Iran's national junior judo team were reported to be on the plane, ahead of training with the Armenian team.

IRANIAN PLANE CRASHES
6 December, 2005: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground
19 February, 2003: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board
23 December, 2002: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people on board

The BBC's Jon Leyne said the country was reliant on air transport, but it had been three years since the last crash.

The civil and military fleets are made up of elderly aircraft, in poor condition due to their age and lack of maintenance.

Since Iran's Islamic revolution of 1979, trade embargoes by Western nations have forced Iran to buy mainly Russian-built planes to supplement an existing fleet of Boeings and other American and European models.

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List of Universities in Bangladesh

Public Universities

  1. University of Dhaka
  2. Rajshahi University
  3. Bangladesh Agricultural University
  4. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  5. Chittagong University
  6. Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET)
  7. Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET)
  8. Jahangirnagar University
  9. Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET)
  10. Islamic University
  11. Shahjalal University of Science & Technology
  12. Khulna University
  13. National University
  14. Bangladesh Open University
  15. Bangabandhu Agricultural University
  16. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Medical University
  17. Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
  18. Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali
  19. Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET)
  20. Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur
  21. Mawlana Bhasani Science and Technology University, Tangail
  22. Rangpur University

Private Universities

  1. North South University
  2. University of Science and Technology, Chittagong
  3. Independent University, Bangladesh
  4. Darul Ihsan University
  5. International University of Business, Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT)
  6. International Islamic University Chittagong
  7. Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
  8. American International University - Bangladesh
  9. Comilla University
  10. Asian University of Bangladesh
  11. East West University
  12. Queens University
  13. The University of Asia Pacific
  14. Gano Bishwabidyalaya
  15. The People's University of Bangladesh
  16. Dhaka International University
  17. Brac University
  18. Manarat International University
  19. Bangladesh University
  20. University of Development Alternative
  21. Begum Gulchemonara Trust University
  22. Sylhet International University
  23. Premier University, Chittagong
  24. Southeast University
  25. Stamford University
  26. Daffodil International University
  27. State University of Bangladesh
  28. City University
  29. IBAIS University
  30. America Bangladesh University
  31. Prime University
  32. Northern University Bangladesh
  33. Southern University
  34. Pundra University of Science and Technology
  35. Green University of Bangladesh
  36. World University of Bangladesh
  37. Santa Marium University of Creative Technology
  38. The Millenium University
  39. Eastern University
  40. Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT)
  41. Metropolitan University, Sylhet
  42. United International University
  43. Victoria University of Bangladesh
  44. Uttara University
  45. University of South Asia
  46. Presidency University
  47. University of Information Technology & Science
  48. Leading University

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List of Bangladesh Medical colleges

Government Medical colleges


Private Medical colleges

  • Samaj vittik Medical College,Mirzanagar,Savar, Dhaka
  • Bangladesh Medical College, Dhaka
  • Central Medical College, Comilla
  • City Dental College, Dhaka
  • Community Based Medical College, Mymensingh
  • Dhaka National Medical College, Dhaka
  • East West Medical College, Dhaka
  • Enam Medical College, Savar, Dhaka
  • Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka
  • Ibn Sina Medical College, Dhaka
  • Ibrahim Medical College, Dhaka
  • Institute of Applied Health Sciences (IAHS), University of Science and Technology, Chittagong]
  • International Medical College, Gazipur
  • Islami Bank Medical College, Rajshahi
  • Jahurul Islam Medical College, Bajitpur, Kishoreganj
  • Khawja Yunus Ali Medical College; Enayetpur Sharif, Sirajgonj
  • Kumudini Medical College, Tangail
  • Medical College for Women and Hospital, Dhaka
  • Moulana Bhasani Medical College, Dhaka
  • North Bengal Medical College
  • Northern International Medical College, Dhaka
  • North-East Medical College, Sylhet
  • Pioneer Dental College, Dhaka
  • Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College, Sylhet,pathantula
  • Sapporo Dental College,Dhaka
  • Sylhet Women's Medical College, Sylhet
  • Shahabuddin Medical College, Dhaka [1]
  • Tairunnessa Memorial Medical College, Gazipur
  • Z. H. Shikdar Women's Medical College, Dhaka
  • University Dental college,Dhaka
  • Cox's Bazar Medical College, Cox's Bazar

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Scientists aim to create robot-insects


A picture taken on June 9, shows Japan's Tokyo University Assistant Professor Noriyasu Ando looking at a live male silkmoth strapped a vehicle so that its legs can move across a free-spinning ball during an experiment into insect-machine hybrids in Tokyo.
Photo: AFP

Police release a swarm of robot-moths to sniff out a distant drug stash. Rescue robot-bees dodge through earthquake rubble to find survivors.

These may sound like science-fiction scenarios, but they are the visions of Japanese scientists who hope to understand and then rebuild the brains of insects and programme them for specific tasks.

Ryohei Kanzaki, a professor at Tokyo University's Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology, has studied insect brains for three decades and become a pioneer in the field of insect-machine hybrids.

His original and ultimate goal is to understand human brains and restore connections damaged by diseases and accidents -- but to get there he has taken a very close look at insects' "micro-brains".

The human brain has about 100 billion neurons, or nerve cells, that transmit signals and prompt the body to react to stimuli. Insects have far fewer, about 100,000 inside the two-millimetre-wide (0.08 inch) brain of a silkmoth.

But size isn't everything, as Kanzaki points out.

Insects' tiny brains can control complex aerobatics such as catching another bug while flying, proof that they are "an excellent bundle of software" finely honed by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, he said.

For example, male silkmoths can track down females from more than a kilometre (half a mile) away by sensing their odour, or pheromone.

Kanzaki hopes to artificially recreate insect brains.

"Supposing a brain is a jigsaw-puzzle picture, we would be able to reproduce the whole picture if we knew how each piece is shaped and where it should go," he told AFP.

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Fighting in Pak tribal belt kills 23 Taliban

Fighting in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt killed 23 Taliban militants and destroyed an oil tanker supplying Nato forces based across the border in Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

The deadliest clashes involved a village militia, officials said, reflecting the state's increasing reliance on local tribesmen to battle Islamist radicals allegedly plotting attacks against targets in this region and in the West.

The worst violence occurred Monday and overnight in the village of Anbar in Mohmand district, 15 kilometres (nine miles) southwest of Khar, the main town of the neighbouring Bajaur district -- another Islamist stronghold.

"According to reports received here, a lashkar (traditional tribal militia) killed 23 militants and several others were wounded," local administration official Asad Ali Khan told AFP.

Administration official Mohammad Rasul Khan said three villagers were missing after the clashes between a 150-strong village force and militants.

Intelligence and security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the fighting and the death toll.

Hundreds of Islamist fighters are believed to have fled Afghanistan into Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal areas to carve out safe havens after the US-led invasion toppled the hardline Taliban regime in Kabul in late 2001.

Pakistan is encouraging locals to organise lashkars against militants in several northwestern regions, as they widen the fight against extremists blamed for bomb attacks that have killed about 2,000 people in two years.

In the infamous Khyber region, militants ambushed a tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan and an ensuing gunfight killed two civilians, said local administration official Rehan Gul Khattak.

The attack took place near the town of Landi Kotal on the main highway, which links Pakistan to landlocked Afghanistan.

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H.S.C Result

H.S.C result will be publish 25th July. Best wishes H.S.C candidates and stay with Us for more information.

"We have proposed the ministry to publish the results by July 25 to 28. Now the ministry will decide the date," Prof Muhammad Shamsul Islam, chairman of the Dhaka Education Board and head of the inter-board committee, told bdnews24.com,

A total of 618,308 students from the 10 boards—eight general education boards, madrasa board and the technical education board—sat for the HSC and equivalent exams countrywide this year from April 16.

H.S.C result 2009


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Registration of political parties

BNP to meet EC tomorrow to seek time extension

BSS, Dhaka

BNP Secretary General Advocate Khandaker Delwar Hossain on Tuesday said a delegation of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would go to Election Commission (EC) on July 16 with an appeal for extension of the time limit for registration.
He complained that conspiracy is on not to allow the BNP to be registered with the EC. The party will take decision on holding its council after the meeting with the EC, he added.
Delwar said this while talking to the journalists at the party central office at Naya Paltan. He urged the EC to extend the time limit so that all political parties could be registered properly.
The central council of the BNP will not be held before December, a party source said adding that as a result the BNP will not be able to submit its final constitution to be adopted by the party council within July 25 for its registration as a political party.
Delwar said the hasty decision of holding the party council by Awami League is not a political move. It is an attempt to keep the BNP out of the registration process, he added.
He said the Election Commission while setting the deadline and afterwards said several times that they might extend the deadline if the parties request it to do so, but now they have taken a different stand. "Why did they show such a gesture earlier," he questioned.
A source of the BNP chairperson's office said the central council is expected to be held in the first week of December.
The 31st founding anni-versary of the BNP will be held in September 1 in a befitting manner and the party will be prepared for the council through it, the source added.

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