City
0 1 min read

Chinese medical team arrives today to treat injured students

block

City Desk :

A Chinese National Emergency Medical Team will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday to provide advanced medical treatment to individuals severely injured during the July-August protests in Bangladesh.

The decision to dispatch the team was made by Beijing at the request of the interim government’s Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus, according to the Chinese embassy in Dhaka.

block

The team, consisting of 10 medical experts from West China Hospital, one of China’s leading healthcare institutions, is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on flight MU2035 from Kunming at 1:35 pm, an embassy official confirmed on Saturday.

The embassy will issue a detailed statement on the team’s activities today, he added.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen, along with senior officials from the health ministry, will be present at the airport to welcome the team.

block
Related

World peace day observed at NSU

City Desk : World Peace Day has been observed in the North South University (NSU) in a befitting manner with renewed pledge to build a new Bangladesh. On the occasion a roundtable discussion, peace rally, tree plantation, release of pigeons and film screening programmes were arranged in the university campus, reports BSS. Addressing the discussion Vice Chancellor of the NSU Prof. Abdul Hannan urged the students to break the barriers which were created over the years in the country’s socioeconomic...

Good governance sans economic justice a distant dream

City Des : The Forum for Economic Justice (FeJ) held a press conference and discussion meeting on proposals for establishing an eight-point economic reform agenda, forming a reform commission to address economic inequality, and recognising social ownership in the constitution. The event took place on Saturday (21-09-204) in the Sagar-Runi Hall of the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity. The speakers emphasised that democratising the economy is the first and foremost condition for building an exploitation-free democratic state or society. They stated that...

Want to leave the culture of filing blanket cases: Asif Nazrul

City Desk : Law Affairs Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul has said they want to establish true justice and want to get out of the culture of filing blanket cases. “We want to establish true justice. We want to get out of the culture of filing blanket cases, using the judiciary to harass people, destroying people’s livelihoods, and creating continuous grievances, anger, and discord among people, reports UNB.” “People come to the judges asking for justice. They (judges) feel embarrassed. Why...

Adviser Nahid denies claims of internet shutdown in CHT

City Desk : Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Saturday said internet was not shut down by the government in the Chittagong Hill Tracts(CHT). “There were isolated instances of temporary internet disruption which was exaggerated as internet shutdown. No such instruction was given. There is no evidence that internet was suspended in Chittagong hill tracts or any other place for a long time,” he said, reports UNB. He came up with the remarks responding to a...