Desk Report: The five-star Ruposhi Bangla hotel is finally reemerging as InterContinental Dhaka after four years of closure for renovation. Its commercial operations will start one month from inauguration by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sept 13, reports Daily Asian Age. The civil aviation and tourism ministry informed the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry…
The Guardian, UK: The NHS is to treat children and young people with an expensive new cancer drug which has the potential to transform how the disease is treated. Simon Stevens, the NHS England chief executive, will announce on Wednesday that a deal has been done with the drug company Novartis, which makes the immunotherapy…
Reuters: Danish inventor Peter Madsen appeared in court on Wednesday to appeal against a life sentence handed to him for murdering and dismembering a Swedish journalist on board his home-made submarine. Madsen was found guilty in April of murdering and mutilating 30-year-old Kim Wall on the craft in Copenhagen harbor in 2017. His lawyers said…
Sayeed Muhammad: A 59-year-old Filipino city mayor, Mariano Blanco, is the latest in a spate of local officials to be slain in recent months, some with and some without alleged links to the illegal drug trade. He was. The country has a history of violence and often deadly political culture, with watchdogs fearing that Duterte’s…
Desk Report: More than 3,000 people have been infected with dengue in the capital and 11 of them died of the disease, showing a rise in the number of dengue cases compared to the last year, reports Daily Sun. According to a report of Health Emergency Operations Centre and Control Room of Directorate General of…
Reuters: More crimes against humanity were committed in Burundi in 2017 and 2018, whipped up by rhetoric from top officials including President Pierre Nkurunziza, a U.N. human rights report said on Wednesday. Burundi has tried and failed to stop the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council in…
BRAC Access to finance – be that credit, or savings, is a universal need. People living in poverty are disproportionately excluded from the formal financial system. Access to finance is particularly difficult for women in Bangladesh with 64% of women left out of formal financial services. Microfinance helps people excluded from the formal banking system…
Reuters: Gunmen from Somalia’s Al Shabaab group killed six people including at least four soldiers in the streets of the capital, a day after the Islamist movement kidnapped scores of elders in a central region, officials said. The militants drove up to a tuk-tuk vehicle carrying the soldiers in Mogadishu’s Karan district and opened fire,…
Dr.Salehuddin Ahmed, Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank , Professor, School of Business, BRAC University : Bangladesh has come a long way; especially, we see some positive macroeconomic indicators although we have to take caution to interpret such indexes. What we need most now is taking the fruits of development to the commoners – something which is…
Masum A H M, Head of National Operations at Garda Shield : Internet – The “Information Superhighway” is also a major source of misinformation. Twisted people with their vested interests often cooks up news and fake information to misguide netizens. I know, now a day’s people are smart enough to trust whatever they read in the…