DOT Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission has identified procurement of unnecessary machines, pilferage of medicine from public hospitals forcing patients to buy medicines from market, trapping patients at public hospitals and taking to them private clinics, prescribing substandard drugs because of aggressive marketing as major corruptions in the health sector in Bangladesh, reports The New age….
AFP Peruvian fishermen need only dive down a few meters to find the scallops considered the “golden nuggets” of the country’s seas — and cherished in European and North American kitchens. Sechura Bay, off northwest Peru’s Pacific coast near Ecuador, is the source of 80 percent of Peru’s exports of the seafood to France, Spain,…
Desk Report: After two decades of legal battle, the house of Bangladesh’s first education minister was handed over to his heirs, removing possessions of controversial business tycoon Moosa Bin Shamsher from it, following an order from a Dhaka court, reports Daily Star. “We had been fighting a prolonged legal battle since 1999 against Moosa to…
Reported by: Tanvir Ahmed Written by: Tanzim Taqrim Arnob The imported rice from abroad is being sold to the general public through the OMS project. But before that the boiled rice was distributed through the OMS project. For a long time, people who are accus tomed to eating steamed rice are less likely to buy…
Reuters: The World Bank has approved $80 million in loans to Somalia to fund public finance reforms, marking the first disbursement to the government of the conflict-ridden country in 30 years, the bank said. The Washington-based lender, which suspended ties with the country when war broke out in 1991, resumed support for Somalia in 2003,…
DOT Desk: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said it busted an international drug racket by arresting five peddlers, including three women, in Dhaka. RAB legal and media wing director Mufti Mahmud Khan told reporters that the accused were arrested during different raids in the city’s Airport police station area, reports The Independent. The arrestees were…
Reported by: Tariqul Islam Sumon Written by: Eshan Maitra Tofael Ahmed encouraged the rice traders by mentioning that, any kind of initiation from the government will be taken in favor of the Rice traders & exporters. Even, the ban on plastic sack and law for using jute-sacks, will be temporarily halted. Government authorities will help…
Reuters: Four people, including two police officers, were killed in a shooting in eastern Canada on Friday in the latest eruption of gun violence across the country that has led to calls for weapons bans in cities. Below are mass shootings in Canada over the past three decades. TORONTO, ONTARIO: July 22, 2018 – A…
Our Time report The ruling Awami League has chalked out elaborate programs to mark the fateful jail killing day tomorrow. The national and party flags will remain half-mast at the party offices across the country. The activists will also hoist black flags and wear black badges in mourning of the national leaders killed inside the…
Prof Abdul Bayes, Personally, I think there is no need to retain quota system. I am not in favour of the quota system. Merit should come first in case of education. Nothing else should be considered in this respect. However, quota can be reserved for the disabled and the ethnic minority communities. Debate can be…