DOT Desk: The urban poor are victims of widening health inequalities because of inadequate facilities and inaccessible health service delivery system in urban areas, reports The New Age. The urban poor population is growing rapidly and the health service delivery system is failing to address their vulnerability to different health problems of communicable diseases, non-communicable…
DOT Desk: Police recovered bodies of two unidentified men from the Buringanga River in South Keraniganj area in Dhaka, reports The New Age. Sub-inspector Mohmmad Firoz, said locals spotted body of a man, aged about 35, at Mirerbagh while another man, aged about 45, was found in Farashganjghat area and informed the matter to police….
DOT Desk: The country’s jute sector is passing through a rough time due to a fall in exports, reports The Daily Sun. During the July-December of 2018-19 fiscal year, jute and jute products exporters fetched around $421 million. The export figure is 27 per cent lower than the corresponding period a year ago. If this…
DOT Desk: Bangladesh has decided to lift the ban on import of yarn from Nepal via the Banglabandha land port after nearly 17 years, following repeated requests from the land locked country, reports The Daily Observer. The National Board of Revenue of Bangladesh on December 28, decided to lift the ban on import of acrylic…
DOT Desk: Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company, the sole gas utility service provider for Dhaka division, has sought an extension of two years for installation of two lakh prepaid gas meters as the three-year project has expired on December 18, 2018, reports The New Age. Until the expiry of the project for installation of…
DOT Desk: After nearly two decades, flocks of migratory birds from Siberia started coming again to vast water body Nilsagar, a sanctuary for birds, at Dhobadanga village of Sadar upazila this winter, reports The Daily Star. Thanks to the authorities concerned for launching a useful project aiming to create a congenial atmosphere, by providing shelter…
Abrar Hussain of DOT The Awami League has obtained a record percentage of votes in the recent general election that also served BNP its biggest ever defeat, according to official statistics published by the Election Commission. The results cite that AL secured as much as 76.80% of votes in the December 30 election, compared to…
Russia Today: The UK will never let Julian Assange just leave the country, so he should surrender, Ecuador’s foreign minister said. The only other option is life self-imprisonment at the Ecuadoran embassy. “Mr. Assange has basically two options: to stay indefinitely because the British authorities have told us … that they will never authorize a…
Russia Today: Israel has opened a segregated road in the West Bank divided by an 26 foot wall, with one side for Israeli settlers and another for Palestinians. The stretch has been dubbed the ‘Apartheid Road’. Route 4370 opened Wednesday after a long delay. The east side of the road is for settlers only, and…
WIO News: A Myanmar judge dismissed an appeal Friday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya, dashing slim hopes that the pair could be freed early. Reporters Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were arrested in Yangon in December 2017 and later jailed for violating…