Desk Report: Orbit Hospital in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj, now under discussion following doctors’ alleged attempt to fleece the parents of a healthy baby by falsely claiming her as a sick one, is running without valid documents, reports Daily Star. “As I asked Orbit Hospital authorities to show their documents, it was found that the…
Desk Report: The Bangladesh Telecom-munication Regulatory Commission has fined Robi Axiata Limited Tk 50 crore as the mobile phone operator continued receiving ‘unauthorised’ fibre optic transmission service from Bangla Phone Limited, reports New Age. The telecom regulator issued a letter to Robi in this regard on Monday asking the mobile operator to pay the amount…
Desk Report: Native fruits are gradually disappearing due to adverse impact of climate change. Use of agro-chemicals and lack of a proper planning on production and marketing of the fruits are also main reasons in this regard. Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said once Narsingdi was considered as one of the leading…
Desk Report: Ginger cultivation is expanding in the district due to repeated bumper production and fair market prices. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official sources said, “We have fixed a target to bring some 400 hectares of land under ginger farming this season but it is being cultivated over 450 hectares of land across…
Desk Report: The 69th birthday of Bangladeshi artist and freedom fighter Shahabuddin Ahmed has been celebrated. Artists, literary personalities, journalists, cultural activists, freedom fighters, writers, and political activists gathered at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy to celebrate the birthday in Dhaka on Tuesday. The event, presided over by National Professor Anisuzzaman, was also attended by Speaker…
Reuters: A court in central Vietnam has jailed an activist for 12 years, on an accusation of trying to overthrow the state, his lawyer said on Thursday, days after two rights campaigners were barred from attending a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Hanoi. Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change,…
Barrister Al Amin Rahman, Advocate, Bangladesh Supreme Court and Partner at FM Associates, Bangladesh The Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh under its article 39 guarantees freedom of expression with some reasonable restrictions. Article 39 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh provides that subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law…
Abandoned Spaces: This industrial giant was built in the 1960s in East Germany. Poetically nicknamed the Blue Miracle, the huge bucket wheel excavator is believed to be the largest piece of abandoned machinery in the world. It was constructed in Central Germany in the town of Lauchhammer, about 30 miles north of Dresden. After the…
Tech Explorist: For decades, robots in controlled situations like sequential construction systems have possessed the capacity to get a similar protest again and again. All the more as of late, leaps forward in computer vision have empowered robots to make fundamental qualifications between objects. And still, at the end of the day, however, the systems…
NDTV: By the year 2030, Diabetes is set to become the seventh largest killer across the globe, says the WHO. Diabetes is a condition marked by fluctuations in blood sugar levels. There are many different types of Diabetes: Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, gestational diabetes, and prediabetes. Lack of awareness and misdiagnosis can make…