Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in a number separate drives found 40% of doctors absent in 11 government hospitals including three in the capital city yesterday. Though the rate of absentee doctors was 11% in the three Dhaka hospitals, it was 61.8% in the eight hospitals and health centres outside Dhaka city,…
Arab News: Pope Francis is looking to leave the sex abuse scandal buffeting his papacy behind as he heads to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump’s promised wall at the US-Mexico border and a new caravan of migrants heading north. History’s first Latin American pope, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina,…
AFP An Indian startup is turning its attention towards usurping the West’s largest hotel chains after establishing itself as India’s biggest player and shaking up the Chinese market. Oyo Rooms, which specialises in no-frills accommodation, was only formed in 2013 but is already worth an estimated $5 billion after receiving funding from international venture capitalists….
Sofian Khan An Amtrak train was derailed on Monday as it took a steep turn on a new stretch of track in Washington at more than twice the speed limit, resulting passenger cars to tumble from a bridge and killing at least three people.The train was on its opening run on a faster route to…
DOT Desk : Bangladesh win the first ODI against West Indies by five wickets after a well-disciplined performance from the bowlers and the batsmen at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. Skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza led the charge with the ball, picking up three wickets while Mustafizur Rahman bagged three as well, reports The Daily…
The Guardian, UK : This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security counted 94 school shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on…
Monsur Iqbal,Sreemangal: In Sreemangal, the tea capital of Bangladesh, railway station approach road connected with Asian Highway which is located inside Sreemangal Paurosova left unrepaired for a long time. Regarding mending the damaged road Mayor of Sreemangal Paurosova Mohsin Miah Modhu said, “there is no budgetary allocation to repair this road.” Engineer of roads and…
Arab News Thousands of Hindu monks and activists linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party gathered in the Indian capital New Delhi on Sunday to urge the government to build a temple at the ruins of a 16th century mosque. The calls for a new temple in the northern town of Ayodhya come…
ABS-CBN: Rihanna has sued her father for trading on her Fenty brand name and suggesting that a business venture he set up in 2017 is associated with her. The “Diamonds” singer, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, filed a lawsuit in US federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday accusing Ronald Fenty and 2…
Michelle Goldberg, Michelle Goldberg, American blogger and author/The New York Times Her testimony was heroic. Will it be pointless? On Thursday, Christine Blasey Ford testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the world, that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers. Her soft voice cracked as she spoke. She…