DOT Desk: Hospitals across the country are struggling to cope with a flood of cold infected children and elderly patients, reports The New Age. Children are suffering mostly from acute respiratory infections, pneumonia, bronchiolitis and diarrhoea while elderly people are seeking treatment of asthma, bronchitis, acute respiratory infections and other cold infections. Doctors told New…
NDTV: Police in Western Australia have confirmed they sent multiple officers to an emergency call after receiving reports of a crying toddler and a man repeatedly screaming “Why don’t you die?” Instead of a real emergency, however, the cops found a man yelling at a spider. According to the Guardian, the incident took place on…
CNN: A source close to the couple told CNN Wednesday that they are expecting their fourth child via surrogate this year. The couple welcomed their daughter Chicago West via surrogate last January. The couple also have daughter North, 5, and 3-year-old son Saint. Us Magazine was the first to report the news. A representative for…
DOT Desk: Export of plastic products has risen significantly in the 2018–19 financial year (July-November) thanks to the availability of raw materials at a cheaper rate, production of quality products, a robust government policy framework, enhanced manufacturing efficiency, and export of products to new and untapped countries, say industry insiders, reports The Independent. According to…
Waliur Rahman speaks to DOT In the year 2050, Bangladesh’s income per capita will be almost twenty thousand dollars. We will become the 30th economy in the world. The country’s economy will balloon to 3.3 trillion dollars – a thirteen-fold increase! Awami League will maintain the trend of development. Everything is written in its manifesto….
DOT Desk: An alleged drug dealer was killed in a gunfight with the members of police in Monagram village in Cumilla Sadar upazila, reports The Daily Observer. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 25, son of Jahangir Alam, a resident of Jormeher village of the upazila. Saiful was accused in five smuggling cases, said…
UNB: A lion-hearted young man returned home alive after fighting with a Royal Bengal Tiger in the Sundarbans. The 30-year-old named Masum, son of Abdul Jalil of Uttor Rajapur village in the upazila, was admitted to Sharankhola upazila health complex with the tiger’s paw marks all over his body. Masum’s brother Zahidul Haoladar said he…
Ramzy Baroud/Middle East Monitor “A historic mistake” is how Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu responded to calls for early elections last November. A few weeks later, he spoke, in exaggerated confidence of the “unanimous” agreement of his right-wing coalition that early elections must be held next April. So why the change of heart? Netanyahu may…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The High Court has ordered the government to immediately admit Barrister Mainul Hosein, arrested in a a number of cases, to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for treatment. The HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir Lytton passed the order yesterday after Mainul’s wife Saju…
CCM: Google’s forthcoming Fuchsia universal operating system for tablets, PCs, smartphones, and tablets will be able to run Android apps when it is finally released, according to an Engadget report. Fuchsia OS has been under development for well over two years, but unlike Google’s Android (or its Chrome OS) it is not based on the…