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CTD SHO martyred in magnetic-bomb explosion in Balochistan’s Khuzdar

report in The Nation, Dec 11, 2023QUETTA – The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Counter Terrorism Depart­ment (CTD) Murad Jamot was mar­tyred and two others injured in a bomb blast in Balochistan’s Khuz­dar district on Sunday. Police said a magnetic bomb was exploded on Jamot’s vehicle when he was going to office near the Sultan Ibrahim Road in Khuzdar area. According to police sources, the nature of the explosion was a magnetic bomb and…

U-17 Khulna Division: Girls attacked for playing football, wearing shorts

by Dipankar Roy in The Daily Star, Jul 31, 2023When she is supposed to be at football practice, she is tossing and turning in a hospital bed with a bandaged head. Mangali Bagchi, an under-17 footballer of the Khulna divisional team, and some of her teammates were attacked by a group of people on Saturday afternoon..The reason: They wear shorts and play football. As Mangali lay in her bed on the third floor of Batiaghata…

In Afghan hospitals, feeling abandoned by the Taliban — and the world

By Rick Noack in The Washington Post, June 28, 2023SHINDAND, Afghanistan — In the U.S.-built district hospital of Shindand in western Afghanistan, the surge in patients took doctors by surprise. As their wards filled up in recent months, they repurposed staff space to make room for more patients and resorted to prescribing single doses of drugs that should be taken in three doses. Some patients with severe conditions have been turned away because of a…

Only ophthalmic surgeon attached to Karapitiya hospital leaves country

By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, June 13, 2023Those who seek treatment at the eye ward of the Karapitiya hospital have been greatly inconvenienced due to the migration of the consultant ophthalmic surgeon. The doctor, who was the only ophthalmic surgeon attached to the ophthalmic surgical unit, has left the country Chairman of the Professional Forum of Physicians on Medical and Civil Rights, Dr. Chamal Sanjeewa, said that a number of top doctors had left…

Former regional PLOTE leader sentenced to death

By Rasadi Chathurangi Gamage in Ceylon Today, June 10, 2023Vavuniya: Vavuniya High Court Judge M. Illancheliyan on 8 June handed down the death sentence to former Vavuniya PLOTE leader Sivanadan Premanath, alias Nedumaran, after finding him guilty of murder of Vavuniya General Hospital gynaecologist in the year 2000. The gynaecologist, Dr. Mohammad Sulthan Meera Mohideen, who was preparing to go home after work, had been gunned down by the accused near the Hospital gate on…