DOT Desk: A lawyer of the Supreme Court yesterday sent a legal notice to the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to completely stop private practice of the government appointed doctors in 24 hours, reports The Daily Star. Advocate Abdus Sattar Palwan served the legal notice to the health secretary, director general of Directorate General…
DOT Desk: Sultan Md Mansur Ahmed, the Jatiya Oikya Front candidate who won a parliamentary seat in the general election under the paddy sheaf symbol, has expressed his interest in taking his oath of office, but his party, the Gono Forum disagrees, reports BDnews24. Sultan Mansur, who was elected from the Moulvibazar-2 seat, told bdnews24.com…
Habibullah Siraji speaks to DOT : We are trying to present this year’s Boi Mela with a different experience. The theme of the fair is the Language Movement of ’52 to 1971’s Liberation War. This is why the fair is divided among five courtyards named after five language martyrs – four of these are in…
Fayazuddin Ahmad writes for DOT : Korail, one of the largest slums in Bangladesh, is located in Mohakhali, Dhaka. Most of the people who live in Korail have moved to the city from some of the parts where level of poverty is high in Bangladesh. Korail covers approximately 100 acres and is home to more…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Among the three formats, Bangladesh cricketer Shakib al Hasan was at the summit of the all-rounders’ ranking in Test matches, but he has now lost his throne to West Indies captain Jason Holder, reports Dhaka Tribune. Holder enjoyed a stellar Test against England in Barbados, hammering an unbeaten double hundred and…
Arab News: Billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said in a TV interview that he is looking into running against Donald Trump in 2020 as an independent presidential candidate. “I am seriously thinking of running for president,” Schultz told the CBS news show “60 Minutes” late Sunday. The self-described “lifelong Democrat” said he “will run…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Thousands of people took to the streets in Paris on Sunday to protest weeks of anti-government demonstrations by the Yellow Vests movement. The group calling itself the Red Scarves gathered in Nation Square and marched to Bastille Square, chanting “enough” and “end the violence”. Laurent Soulie, a 51-year-old aeronautics engineer, told…
Reuters: The Netherlands will refuse an Italian request to accept 47 migrants on humanitarian ship that is being blocked from Italian ports, it said in a statement on Monday. The Sea Watch 3, run by a German humanitarian group and flying a Dutch flag, recovered the migrants out of a rubber boat off Libya more…
Reuters: Mala-ysian prosecutors on Monday charged former prime minister Najib Razak with three more counts of money laundering, allegedly receiving the proceeds of illegal activities in his personal bank accounts. After unexpectedly losing an election to Mahathir Mohamad in May last year, Najib has been slapped with a series of corruption charges, mostly tied to…
BBC: At least 15 people were killed when a landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in south-eastern Peru, officials say. The impact of the mud and rocks forced the building’s walls and roof to cave in while guests were inside dancing. Twenty-nine people were injured and had to be pulled from the…