Desk Report: Tejgaon Thana Health Complex, with its 27 physicians, in the capital’s Tejgaon Industrial Area treats only 15 to 150 patients a day, most of the time having nothing to do, reports New Age. The hospital has no inpatient services and the patients visit the outdoor and emergency departments only for minor ailments. During…
bdnews24: The victim has been identified as 18-year-old Shikha Akter, wife of Ruhul Amin. The body was found in a pond adjacent to her father-in-law’s house in the neighbourhood of Miapara in Uttar Joypara in Dohar on Monday, said Sheikh Sirajul Islam, chief of the local police station.
AFP: Hollywood’s A-listers gather Monday to honor the best in television at the Emmy Awards, with record-breaking fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” back in the competition and once again looking to slay its rivals. But winter could come early for HBO’s blood-spattered smash hit if it fails to snare the coveted best drama series prize,…
Desk Report: Three major private universities have been closed for indefinite period after clashes between their students and police over the road safety movement. They are North South University (NSU), East West University (EWS) and BRAC University. Authorities of the universities announced the decision on Monday evening. NSU Proctor Nazmul Ahsan Khan declared the closure…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to BNP leader Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas for eight weeks in a corruption case of Tk 21 crore, reports The Daily Star. The court, however, directed Mirza Abbas and Afroza Abbas to surrender before the trial court after eight weeks in…
Panicking Dhaka North Residents Written by: Eshan Maitra It had rained 2 days ago in Pallabi, Mirpur. But the roads are still clogged-up by the filthy rain waters mixed with sewers & uncleaned drainage wastes. It isn’t even rainy season yet. Hence, the people of Dhaka North are panicking thinking about what might occur during…
The Guardian, UK: Sou-th Korea’s capital and largest city, Seoul, is set to begin daily checks for hidden cameras in public toilets in response to growing public outrage over an epidemic of “spy-cam porn”. South Korea is in the middle of a battle against videos secretly filmed in places such as toilet stalls and changing…
Noor Majid of DOT In the early 17th and 18th century, animal pelts and fur were in high demand among the fashion loving elites of Europe. Its potential for economic returns lured traders and thugs alike from the old world and bought them to the doorsteps of the New, namely the North American continent. In…
Interviewed by Lipi Parvin Written by Sabah Mannan In the last 47 years, Bangladesh has come across a whole new political situation which has been repeatedly intersected, been under Military rule as well as Caretaker Government’s. In the face of protests, sometimes elections were selective or rigged and also changed through neutral elections which…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) yesterday disclosed that around Tk 22,502 crore has been looted from the banking sector during two tenure of Awami League led government, reports The Daily Observer. CPD, a leading civil society think-tank, upheld the disclosure at a seminar in a hotel in Dhaka. CPD fellow Dr…