DOT Desk: Shohag Chowdhury was admitted to the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with injuries sustained from a road accident last month. There, he was prescribed a number of blood tests, ultrasound and an X-ray by a doctor, reports The Daily Star. Despite being in a critical condition, the 35-year-old had to…
Salman Ahmad/Daily O, India Dil sey jo baat nikaltee hai asar rakhtee hai / Par nahin taqatey parvaaz magar rakhtee hai: Allama Iqbal (The whisper in your heart has strength / It may not have wings but it has the power to fly) When I was a teenager, I played club cricket at Lahore Gymkhana…
Desk Report: Stocks on bourses witnessed volatility in early hour of trading on Thursday as investors are active both sides of trading fence, reports The Financial Express. Following the previous two days’ upward trend, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened on positive note. But losses the ground as the…
Tavleen Singh /Indian Express The Prime Minister himself said, at the opening of a medical facility, that plastic surgery must have been known in ancient India for Shiva to have given his son Ganesha the head of an elephant. It did not help that China landed a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon…
BBC: Miners in Western Australia say they have discovered two huge gold-encrusted rocks that are each estimated to be worth millions of dollars. The largest specimen, weighing 95kg (210lb), was found to contain more than 2,400 ounces of gold, Canadian miner RNC Minerals said. The company said it had extracted gold worth about C$15m (£9m;…
Channel News Asia Twenty one prisoners, most of them members of Islamic State jailed on terrorism charges, broke out of a prison in northern Iraq but 15 of them have been recaptured, Kurdish security officials said on Thursday. The fortified jail of Sosa is located near the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya and include mainly…
Sky News Harvey Weinstein bragged about sleeping with Jennifer Lawrence while trying to force himself upon a woman in his office, court documents show. According to the latest lawsuit against the Hollywood producer, he boasted of a sexual relationship with the Oscar-winning star after forcibly performing oral sex on a young actress during a meeting…
Raj Abrar of DOT Sajeeb Wazed, the grandson of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has urged Bangladeshis not to vote for war criminals and their alliance partners, referring to the BNP and the Jatiya Oikya Front, reported BDNews. He made the remarks in a Facebook post on Victory Day. “A vote for Paddy Sheaf is a…
DOT Desk: Islamic University in Kushtia has made Mossamat Salma Sultana the new chairman of English department at the university, reports The New AGe. A charge handing-over ceremony was held at Rabindra-Nazrul Kala Bhaban on the campus on Sunday where the university vice-chancellor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari was present as the chief guest. Pro-vice-chancellor M Shahinoor Rahman,…
UNB, Dhaka BNP on Friday demanded the resignation of Finance Minister AMA Muhith and Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Atiur Rahman over the stealing of $ 101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account in the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ‘The Finance Minister and the Bangladesh Bank Governor are responsible for turning the country’s…