Daily deaths rise to 77, getting ICU bed becomes matter of luck
Manzur H Maswood | Published: 00:30, Apr 11,2021 | Updated: 00:52, Apr 11,2021
It has become a matter of great luck for critical COVID-19 patients to get an ICU bed at a government hospital as the health system has been facing an overwhelming pressure due to the rising influx of coronavirus patients.
Critical COVID-19 patients in need of ICU support are shuttling from hospital to hospital in vain while few fortunate ones with high-level connections obtain the facility.
As the capital has the concentration of COVID-19 patients, the availability of ICU beds has severely shrunk in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.
BSEC plans to delist 8 more OTC cos under exit scheme
25 cos to be sent to alterative trading board, 15 others to SME platform
Mostafizur Rahman | Published: 22:49, Apr 03,2021
A file photo shows the front view of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission building in the capital. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission has moved to delist eight more companies trading on the over-the-counter market after repaying general investors’ claims as per the commission’s exit plan directive. New Age photo
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission has moved to delist eight more companies trading on the over-the-counter market after repaying general investors’ claims as per the commission’s exit plan directive.
Uncertainty over Serum vaccine supply to Bangladesh grows
Govt yet to receive 50 lakh doses from Serum scheduled for March
Manzur H Maswood | Published: 23:30, Apr 01,2021 | Updated: 23:55, Apr 01,2021
Uncertainty over the COVID-19 vaccine supply to Bangladesh by Serum Institute of India has increased as the Indian manufacturer failed to supply the committed 50 lakh doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca-developed vaccine in March.
Serum has also kept Bangladesh authorities in dark about when and how many doses of the vaccine it will send in the next consignment although the country has a shortage of vaccine doses to continue its vaccination programme, including the beginning of the second dose administration on April 8.
Nature’s money that can save our civilisation
THE COVID-19 pandemic that blazed across 2020 has thrown the world into disarray. Economic damage that has triggered the breakdown of the system signals a dire need for change. As the old system is getting dismantled and global leaders jump in to fix the problems, Bitcoin is now gaining traction, increasing in price and welcoming new users every day.
Bitcoin, invented during the financial crisis in 2008, is free from the central authority of governments and banks. In its 12 years of existence, the technology, with its unique feature of censorship resistance and permissionless use, has allowed people to store value securely and transact with one another freely in a way that is unprecedented in human history.
Eve Ottenberg | Published: 00:00, Mar 15,2021
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WILL the US. military ever leave Afghanistan? The answer appears to be no. When the US military comes it stays. It’s been in Germany since the 1940s, and now has expanded, with its attack dog, NATO, from there throughout Eastern Europe to menace Russia. The Afghan adventure has so far lasted 20 years and cost two trillion dollars. Afghanistan provides a convenient, imperial base from which to threaten China. The US military, realistically, will never want to give that up.
Trump left office with plans in place for the remaining 2500 US troops to depart Afghanistan by May 1. Not a word about the 18,000 contractors, aka mercenaries, who have long outnumbered US soldiers in Afghanistan. Like those soldiers, these mercenaries’ lives are at risk. They are also a geopolitical liability. If one gets killed, as happened not too long ago in Iraq, the US retaliates. That co