Arafat Hasan of DOT A Dhaka court has sentenced two convicts to jail after they surrendered before it in connection with a case filed over the August 21 grenade attack 15 years ago, reported The Daily Star. The two convicts, then deputy commissioner (East) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Obaidur Rahman Khan and then deputy…
Eurek Alert: A study of people who inject drugs found a significant increase in the risk of infective endocarditis, a serious infection of the lining of the heart, possibly linked to increasing use of the opioid hydromorphone. The study is published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Infective endocarditis can be life-threatening. “We observed a…
Yoshita Srivastava/Feminism in India The Constitution of India was adopted by the elected Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 and came into effect on 26 January 1950. The total membership of the Constituent Assembly was 389. While we all remember Dr. B R Ambedkar as the Father of the Constitution and other pioneering male members…
Kōda Hideyuki, Power News/ Nippon.com The Muslim population in Japan is still relatively small, and most Japanese have only a basic understanding of Islam. Views of the religion are frequently tinted by stereotypes and negative images presented in the media, an issue that many Muslim residents and visitors find worrying. In this article we talk…
DOT Desk: Cargo van registration in Dhaka city witnessed a slight decline in 2018 compared to that of 2017, reports The Financial Express. A total of 1,224 cargo vans were registered in 2018 while the number was 1,285 in 2017, according to statistics provided by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). With the latest, a…
Metro, UK: Plans to introduce a martial law to prevent unrest in the event of a chaotic no-deal Brexit are being looked at by the country’s top planners. The civil service are ‘prepping’ for all possibilities including putting troops on the streets of UK cities to stop rioting over food shortages. Health Secretary Matt Hancock…
Usama Anjum/ Daily Pakistan Vlogging, for quite some time now has been flourishing amongst our young minds as a substitute for a full time job and this is impractical. Not to deny that there have been instances of great financial success in video blogging but it’s limited to a very few names and that too…
Space News: NASA is making a new, and perhaps final, attempt to restore contact with the Mars rover Opportunity, which has not communicated with the Earth for more than six months. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Jan. 25 that it was transmitting a new set of commands to address what it acknowledged are “low-likelihood” events…
Eurek Alert: To address the root causes of poor diets, improve nutrition and reduce dietary inequities in Canada requires a broad approach, combining nutrition and social policies, argues an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) http://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.180938. Dietary inequities refer to differences in diet quality between people of lower and higher socioeconomic status. For example,…
Nicholas Kristof/ The New York Times The U.S. should pressure Saudis to respect the human rights of outspoken women. Remember this name: Loujain (pronounced Loo-JAYNE) al-Hathloul. She is 29 years old and a courageous advocate for gender equality — so she is in a Saudi Arabian prison, and reportedly our Saudi allies have tortured her,…