Anadolu Agency: A video of an anti-polio worker in Pakistan walking through waist-deep snow to administer vaccines to children is doing the rounds on social media gathering praise from humanitarian groups. World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he admired the efforts of Pakistani workers fighting against the crippling polio virus. “There…
Myisha Nawar “I’m quitting my job to pursue my dreams!” We’re conditioned to see big career leaps as tales of risk and reward, but they’re mostly fables. How many times have you heard stories like these? A woman loves making pottery, so she decides to open a little shop to sell her wares. A man…
M Humayun Kabir: Three girls who failed in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination, committed suicide in three districts -Manikganj, Khulna and Panchagarh on Thursday and Friday, reports UNB. Mitu Akter, daughter of Mosaddek Hossain of Kusta Village in Ghior upazila of Manikganj, committed suicide by taking poison yesterday morning as she did not…
Pratiti Shirin writes for DOT : There is an old saying that says do not ask men of their wage and women, of their age. But the average Bengali person just does the opposite. Not only does he ask of wage and age but of all other personal things which exist under the sun. For…
Abrar Hussain: Bangl-adesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali met Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday evening in New Delhi after the funeral of former Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee as both ministers recalled their association with the late Vajpayee. The India External Affairs Minister appreciated the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh for going all…
Syed Manzoorul Islam, Academic and Writer: omestic awareness has to be raised if drug-addicted students are to be brought back to schools and colleges. Offspring should have sound and healthy relationships with their parents. It is a sad reality that corrupt households will have adverse impact on the growth of its children. When the father…
A bill to legalise abortion services in the Republic of Ireland has passed all stages of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament). The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill will now be given to the President to be signed into law. The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill allows for abortion services to be provided “on demand”…
AP, Cairo The United States, Europe and United Nations have all pinned their hopes for resolving Libya’s chaos and blocking the Islamic State group’s growth there on a newly announced unity government. The problem is: It’s not clear how the government can actually get into the country. The unity government, brokered by the U.N. and…
In search of Almighty.. An old man was reciting Quran, after his Juhar prayer.
AP: One of Europe’s main solutions to migration — Greece’s overcrowded, unsanitary Moria migrant camp — has suicidal children and conditions that a psychiatrist compared to “an old-fashioned mental asylum.” In another heavily criticized solution to immigration, imprisoned men and women have been shuttled away from one gunbattle only to end up incarcerated on the…