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Relief scarce in flood-hit are

Many flood-hit people are passing their days in starvation as the government’s relief allocation is insufficient, victims said.

In some places, flood victims alleged the local people’s representatives of nepotism in distributing relief, thus depriving those in actual need of aid.

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World

What is pooled testing for COVID-19 and how can it help fight the virus?

Quest Diagnostics on Saturday received the first emergency authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration to use pooled testing to help reduce its backlog of COVID-19 tests. The following is a description of how it works and the advantages and disadvantages of pooled testing.

How does pooled testing work?

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Life Style

What will happen to all the faces?

She had never spent much money or time on beauty treatments; she had had few facials, and shopping at Sephora was rare. But when Dr Lara Devgan, a plastic surgeon in New York, reopened her office last month, Aubry went in for a consultation and got treated the same day. That office visit was one of the few outings she had taken since March.

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World

More than 40 countries accuse N Korea of breaching UN sanctions

The 15-member UN Security Council imposed an annual cap of 500,000 barrels in December 2017 in a bid to cut off fuel for North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

But in a complaint to the UN Security Council North Korea sanctions committee, 43 countries – including the United States, Britain and France – said they estimated that in the first five months of this year Pyongyang had imported more than 1.6 million barrels of refined petroleum via 56 illicit tanker deliveries.

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World

103-year-old Pakistani man survives COVID-19

Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the mountainous northern district of Chitral, was released last week from an emergency response centre after testing positive in early July.

“We were worried for him given his age, but he wasn’t worried at all,” Alim’s son Sohail Ahmed told Reuters on the phone from his village, close to Pakistan’s border with China and Afghanistan.

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World

Goldman Sachs agrees $3.9bn 1MDB settlement with Malaysia

The deal includes a $2.5 billion cash payout by Goldman and a guarantee by the bank to return at least $1.4 billion in proceeds from assets linked to sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the two sides said.

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World

China orders US to shut Chengdu consulate, retaliating for Houston

China ordered the United States to close its consulate in the city of Chengdu on Friday, in a tit-for-tat response to being told to shut its consulate in Houston earlier this week, as relations between the two world powers deteriorated further.

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National

Supply of fake masks: Sharmin Jahan, owner of Aparajita, arrested

Sharmin Jahan, owner of Aparajita International, has been arrested in a case of supplying fake masks at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

The Detective and Criminal Investigation Department (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested him from Shahbagh area of the capital around 10:15 pm on Friday.

DB Joint Commissioner Mahbub Alam confirmed the information to the media.
Earlier, BSMMU authorities filed a case against Sharmin Jahan, owner of Aparajita International, at Shahbagh Police Station for supplying substandard N95 masks.

University Proctor Dr. Mozaffar Ahmed told the media that the company had cheated by providing low quality masks. Doctors and health workers refused to use these masks.

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Breaking National Politics

Three including Rohingya man killed in separate ‘gunfights’

Three people, including a Rohingya man, were killed in what the law enforcers called the gunfights with them in Cox’s Bazar, Bogura and in the capital early Wednesday, reports news agenc yUNB.

In the capital, according to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), ………….

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DGHS relied on Regent hospital despite its lacks

A female physician had to flee from her workplace, Regent hospital, as she had been the only physician there and had to work throughout the day.

The physician, wishing to be anonymous, came to know about the Regent hospital job through a Facebook post by its chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim, who was detained over issuing of fake coronavirus test reports and fraudulence.