M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country’s drawback in power sector during BNP regime was unprecedented. “I don’t know whether people of any country have such a bitter experience,” she said while inaugurating National Power and Energy Week 2018 at a function at Bashundhara City International Convention Center in the city,…
Dawn Foster, Guardian columnist/ The Guardian, UK After an accident my local parishioners surrounded me with love – our society needs that spirit of closeness more than ever Have you written a will?” my doctor asked, matter-of-factly, while taking my blood pressure last Saturday, in the same tone you’d use to ask someone whether it…
Kabir Humayun: A Dhaka special court deferred to October 18 the hearing of forming charge in Gatco graft case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Lawyers of two other accused — Tanvir Ahmed and Galib Hossain — of the same case pleaded for adjourning the hearing as the High Court earlier issued stay order for the…
Desk Report: Tejgaon Thana Health Complex, with its 27 physicians, in the capital’s Tejgaon Industrial Area treats only 15 to 150 patients a day, most of the time having nothing to do, reports New Age. The hospital has no inpatient services and the patients visit the outdoor and emergency departments only for minor ailments. During…
WION: Women who experience sexual assault have vivid memories of the incident for decades, even if they are not diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, a study has found. Unlike women coping with the aftermath of other traumatic, life-altering events, victims of sexual violence had more intense memories that were difficult, if not impossible, to forget.”To…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: The world ‘terror’ means the action or quality of causing dread and alternatively, a person, object or force, inspiring dread. Modern words like terror, terrorize, terrible, terrorism and deterrent are believed to have been derived from the Latin verbs terror – to tremble…
Desk Report: The role of road safety office of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) becomes controversial as it supposed to ensure safer traffic movement. Meanwhile, the outcomes of special traffic program are doubted as the traffic division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has apparently targeted privately owned vehicles and motorcycles, reports Daily Asian Age. The…
Desk Report: Health experts at a post-rally discussion have stressed ensuring proper maternal, newborn and child health services to further reduce the neonatal death rate to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), reports Financial Express. They expressed the view in the discussion organised by the civil surgeon’s office in the conference room of Sadar Hospital…
Kabir Humayun: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Sweden have penned an agreement to launch a USD 4.8 million project to introduce a sustainable system of solid waste management in Cox’s Bazar. The agreement to implement ‘Sustainable Solutions to Solid Waste: A Local Response to the Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh’ was signed by Anders Ohrstrom,…
AFP: Cyprus appealed to the EU to offer it more help with illegal migrants, warning it would be unable to cope if the influx of arrivals continues to its shores. The European Union’s easternmost state held an emergency ministerial meeting to address the issue after more than 140 migrants reached the island in the past…