The Eurek Alert In their phase-2 study of tisagenlecleucel (marketed as KYMRIAH®), to be published on-line Dec. 1, 2018 in the New England Journal of Medicine, an international team of researchers evaluated 93 patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). They found that 52 percent of those patients responded favorably to the…
Tarannum Haider Maliha About 45 years ago our country had encountered a huge threat which could have destroyed our existence. There wouldn’t have been any nation named Bangladesh or any nationality named Bangladeshis. We have faced the danger, battled it and earned our identity. There were many ups and downs from then which we have…
Desk Report: Warren Buffett is not tweeting inspirational quotes. But fake Warren Buffet is, and you may have seen his advice this week. An account impersonating the 87-year-old American investor shot to social media fame on Saturday when it bagged almost 300,000 likes for its debut tweet.Since then it has amassed close to two million…
UNB, Dhaka The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved six development projects involving Tk 1219.26 crore, including one to construct some 672 residential flats for government officials and employees at Aliganj in Narayanganj. The approval came from the 24th Ecnec meeting of the current fiscal year held at the NEC…
Hindustan Times: Veteran actor-writer Kader Khan has died in Canada due to a prolonged illness, his son Sarfaraz confirmed today. He was 81. Kader Khan’s health deteriorated on Friday and he was admitted to a hospital in Canada. The actor’s funeral will take place on Tuesday in Canada where his family is living at present. “My…
Labib Murshed writes for DOT : The 2018 G20 Summit of the 20 largest economic powers of the world (19 counties and the European Union) put its denouement on Saturday, December 1, 2018 in Argentina. Due to the onging tensed international incidents all the eyes were in this summit – from the US-China trade war and…
DOT Desk Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year, Human Rights Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone…
Farhin Ahmed Mim 1.The Anguished Man: Sean Robinson’s grandmother gave him the “Anguished Man” which was made by an unidentified artist who mixed his blood with paint in making this piece of art after which he committed suicide. Shawn uploaded a video on the paranormal activities regarding this painting where he felt a presence and…
DOT Desk British playwright JB Priestley’s classic play ‘An Inspector Calls’, which is set in 1912, seems to be equally haunting and riveting after all these years, reports The New Age. The play is still a sensible and important reminder that not much has changed in the last one hundred or so years regarding the…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT : On Apr 25 of 2016, a group of assailants armed with machetes broke into Xulhaz’s apartment in Dhaka’s Kalabagan and hacked him to death along with Tonoy. Their murders took place amid a series of executions carried out by extremists across the country that year. Xulhaz, a 35-year-old programme…