BBC: Doctors are being told to adopt a new policy of writing letters that are easier for patients to understand. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says too often correspondence contains complex medical jargon rather than plain and simple English. Using the phrase “twice daily” to explain the dosing of a medicine is better than…
UNB: Each of the state-owned commercial banks (SCBs) will have to put in place a dedicated supervision cell to oversee cases of default loan worth Tk. one billion and above and take measures to recover the money. This is one of the 26 recommendations that the finance ministry has recently come up with as the…
Desk Report: In 1962, an Alemannic burial site containing human skeletal remains was discovered in Niederstotzingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Researchers at the Eurac Research Centre in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, and at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, have now examined the DNA of these skeletal remains. This has enabled them to…
P Prabakaran/UNICEF Last year, Nhaveen, a 17-year-old boy, was beaten by a gang of boys in an empty field. They thought he was too effeminate and wanted him to “man up.” After, Nhaveen fell into a coma and never woke up. Bullying is an issue that is close to my heart. I grew up just…
Apnews: When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet Friday in Tehran, all eyes will be on their diplomacy reaching a last-minute deal to avert a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria’s crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold. The three leaders, whose nations are all under U.S. sanctions, have an interest in working together…
Desk Report: Facebook will build a $1.4 billion data centre in Singapore, its first in Asia and its 15th in the world. To be located in Tanjong Kling (formerly known as Data Centre Park), it will support “hundreds of jobs” and form part of Facebook’s growing presence in Singapore and the region, the company said…
BBC: One of the UK’s leading female astro-nomers is to donate her £2.3m winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers. Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize for the discovery of radio pulsars.This…
Desk Report: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) embassy in Dhaka has taken a new move to ‘select’ a number of local recruiting agencies to submit visas to the embassy for hiring manpower from Bangladesh, said sources concerned, reports Financial Express. Under the new ‘Drop Box’ system, all the manpower recruiters here will have to…
M Humayun Kabir: The government is thinking about introducing tuition-free schooling for children from primary levels up to junior school level – class VIII. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman disclosed the government’s plan while speaking to reporters at a press conference arranged for the occasion of International Literacy Day 2018 held at his…
Hossen Sohel: The leaders of the two Koreas will hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, Seoul said yesterday, as the North’s leader Kim Jong Un renewed his commitment to the denuclearisation of the flashpoint peninsula, reports AFP The announcement of the September 18-20 summit — the third between Kim and South Korean President Moon…