Mostafa Kamal Majumder An ever smiling, unassuming, guardian figure and lovable elderly image of a vetern journalist that used to fill our minds with the utterance of the name – Hasanuzzaman Khan – is in the other world today. Admitted…
Day: May 19, 2015
Aruna, the India nurse whose rape changed euthanasia laws
Aruna Shanbaug lay in a near vegetative state for 42 years in a cubicle in Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, where she had worked as a nurse and where she was sexually assaulted in 1973. Columnist Bachi Karkaria pieces…
ISIS tightens its grip on Iraqi twon of Ramadi
Islamic State militants are cementing their hold on Ramadi – the Iraqi city they captured on Sunday, reports say. Militants were going door-to-door looking for government sympathisers and throwing bodies in the nearby Euphrates river, residents were quoted as saying.
City election was not fair – TIB. Report of TIB biased – Tofail
A ‘weak’ Election Commission has failed to organise free and fair polls to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations, the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) says. “The election was not fair and there was widespread rigging. Even the security forces’ role is…
The issue of people affected by conflicts, disasters
Rezaul Karim Chowdhury Why there are the urgency and importance of the issues of “People Affected to Conflict and Disaster”, i)Asia Pacific (AP) is the most effected region in respect of natural disasters, where world 80 % of natural disaster…
‘Clinton emails won’t be released until January 2016
By Jason Leopold Roughly 55,000 pages worth of emails that belong to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won’t be released any time soon, according to court papers filed Monday night, which say the State Department doesn’t intend to make the…
Will post-2015 agenda integrate economic, environ, social pillars?
Bobby Ramakant (CNS): Key consultative processes have been going on globally to gather the broadest voices with the intent to effectively shape the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. In the Asia Pacific region there is a considerable effort put in to…
End politics of abduction, murder: Charmonai Pir
The Pir Shaheb of Charmonai, Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim has called for an end to the politics of abduction, enforced disappearance and murder. Addressing a rally of teachers and students at the Charmonai Madrsah on Monday the Pir Shaheb…
Hasanuzzaman Khan, JPC’s last remaining founder, is no more
Hasanuzzaman Khan, life member of Jatiya Press Club, Dhaka, is dead. The last surviving founder member of the club, the centre of democratic movements in Bangladesh, Khan breathed his last at the Heart Institute Hospital at about 4 pm on…