DOT Desk: The South Korean electronics giant LG, Samsung will soon start manufacture of electronic goods in Bangladesh which will reduce trade gap between Dhaka and Seoul, reports The Independent. This was revealed yesterday while South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Hu Kang-il paying a courtesy call on Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen at…
Shakil Ahmed 24/7 Healthcare Hotline was announced by the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokan, yesterday. Doctors will directly visit the patients’ at their houses to deliver full-free healthcare services. The healthcare line is – 09611000999. Each DSCC ward will have a team for the healthcare service with 150 field-workers in total. More will…
AP, Cairo Nearly three years into a crackdown overseen by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, allegations of human rights abuses including killings, torture and secret detentions are starting to bring an international backlash from the Egyptian leader’s allies. In the past month, Egypt was rebuked over its human rights record by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry,…
Tanzim Taqrim On Wednesday Law enforcers asserted arrest of a member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Narayanganj’s Rupganj, reports Daily Star.The arrestee has been recognized as 50 year old cloth merchant Hafez Maolana Ishahak. Additional super intendent of police and also an official of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) 11 Md Shakil…
Desk Report American scientists reported a new antibiotic treatment with heavy metal gallium that showed signs of efficacy in a preliminary trial among patients with hard-to-treat lung infection. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine described the new approach that tricks bacteria into taking up a molecule that looks like food,…
DOT Desk Chinese poet-cum-architects Lam-Kong Chuen and Cherry Tsang have prepared to cast Bangladeshi poetry into architectural design. This time they have selected poetry from noted poet Professor Muhammad Samad, reports The Daily Observer. About his role in inspiring architectural designs through poetry the two painters in a joint statement have said that Muhammad Samad…
M Hafiz Uddin Khan, Former Advisor, Caretaker Government: I do not believe that the way the government is trying to resolve the drug situation is right at all. The process by which the anti-drug operation is being conducted has violated the human rights of many. The violation of human rights is not acceptable at all….
Desk Report: In Papua New Guinea, on the eastern half of the world’s second-biggest island, 80% of people live in rural villages – and many in the most remote and isolated regions have little contact with the outside world at all. Here, as Mark Stratton found, traditional rituals still survive.The dappled light, cast through the…
S.M. Fahim Tahmina Rahman, 23, is making a statement in various points in Dhanmondi by selling peanuts despite being a student of Lalmatia Women’s College. She is doing this by selling peanuts whilst wearing her usual attire of jeans, converse and navy blue shirt with white headphones dangling from her ears, reports Banglanews24. “Kotha”, as…
Prof Dr Ajoy Roy, Physicist, Educationist: The quota reformists are being targeted and becoming of victims of torture. They are also being apprehended from wherever they are found. Even the female students are not spared. Why the arrestees are denied bail? This is not right at all. This makes it abundantly clear that the rule…