PETA Exposé Offers Unprecedented Look at $1.2 Billion USD Industry. Dhaka, Bangladesh – For two years, PETA Germany, with journalist Manfred Karremann, investigated the billion-dollar leather industry in Bangladesh. Now, a new PETA video narrated by British singer Leona Lewis…
This year, Human Rights Day launches a one-year celebration by the United Nations of the 50th anniversary of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), signed…
Press Release Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited donated Tk. 2 crore for winter clothes to the Prime Minister’s relief fund. The cheque was handed over to Sheikh Hasina, honorable Prime Minister by Engr. Mustafa Anwar, Chairman of the Bank on December…
Recently, several daily newspapers have reported Honorable Prime Minister’s alleged remarks about Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at a weekly cabinet meeting. .
A leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, was arrested from Monikrishna Sen Degree College area of the upazila yesterday morning.The arrested was identified as Mijanur Rahman Raju, 25, general secretary of Kabilpur union Shibir unit and son…
RU Correspondent To mark the ‘World Human Rights Day’ with the slogan of “Our Rights, Our Freedom, Always” the department of Rajshahi University took out a procession
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 45 turtles of rare species from Putkhali border area on Wednesday night.Camp Commander Subedar Krishnapada said being tipped off, a team of BGB-21 battalion conducted drive in border area at…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh arrested an Indian citizen along with 530 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Moktarpur Padmar Char area of Charghat upazila on Wednesday afternoon.The arrestee was identified as General Sheikh, son of Mujibul Sheikh, hailing from…
Joint forces in separate drives from Wednesday night to early Thursday arrested 42 people, including 12 Jamaat-Shibir activists, in different places of the district on various charges. Enamul Haque, sub-inspector of Satkhira district police, said a team comprising members of…
A motorcyclist was killed and his two co-riders were injured as an unknown vehicle crashed into their vehicle at Chaighoria Labsa on the Satkhira-Jessore highway in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Yusuf Hossain, son of Abdus…
Police in a drive seized four hand bombs from Bamondi village under Gangni upazila of the district this morning.Being informed, police rushed to the spot and recovered the bombs from a roadside at about 8am, said Akram Hossain, officer-in-charge of…
A mobile court of Chittagong Port in a drive in the estuary of Karnaphuli river today fined 15 vessels for plying in the river without legal documents, creating obstacles in port channels, Bay crossing permit and overloading.Authorized officer of Chittagong…
The two day long BPO summit ended yesterday with the hope of creating employment opportunities for 2,00,000 people in the next six years.
Court Correspondent The Special Judge Court-3 of Dhaka yesterday (Thursday) fixed December 21 for further hearing in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others.
State Minister for Telecommunications Tarana Halim told the media on Thursday that the government has cleared the decision to unblock the social media site.
Argentina’s outgoing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has made an emotional farewell speech to supporters in Buenos Aires. She urged people to take to the streets if they feel betrayed by the new centre-right government.
Narayanganj–Eight suspected robbers allegedly of an inter-district gang were killed and three others injured in lynching attack in Purindabazar area of Araihazar upazila in Narayanganj early Thursday. A gang of robbers numbering 25-30 reportedly came in the market area in…
Locals at Narayanganj’s Arhaihazar Upazila have beaten to death seven suspected robbers.
New York – Time magazine Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its “Person of the Year 2015,” hailing her leadership during Europe’s debt, refugee and migrant crises, as well as Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.
Human rights in Bangladesh have ‘sunk below zero’, Khaleda Zia has said, expressing her concern. The BNP chairperson urged everyone to unite to ‘restore’ democracy and take the nation out of the current situation. She made this appeal on Wednesday…
By Miriam Wells Nothing unites British people more than contempt for a perceived idiot. And that’s exactly what happened overnight on Tuesday, with an outpouring of scorn, then fury, for US presidential candidate Donald Trump following his latest bigoted comments.…
After a long delay, the Saudi cabinet has approved a law that may pave the way for non-charity organizations to operate legally in the Kingdom. The law – long overdue – is a significant advance for a country where civil…
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights by the UN General Assembly in 1948, a momentous step forward in the recognition of the dignity of all human beings. Human Rights Day this…
Mohammad Zainal Abedin New York – Journalists were amazed to see how some of the American prisons change the behavior of those who were awarded long-term sentences for their crimes and establish them in the society as dignified people. On…
The Election Commission on Wednesday sent letters to 20 political parties, participating in the December-30 municipal election, reminding them of the election code of conduct.
he High Court on Wednesday summoned the Director General of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) and its assistant director to appear before the court on January 5 next to explain contempt of court charges.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said it is micro-savings, not the micro-credit, can develop the fate of the country’s under privileged people.
The death of five-year-old boy Nirob, whose body was recovered from the Buriganga River after he fell into a manhole in the city’s Shyampur area on Tuesday, was caused by drowning, said the autopsy report on Wednesday.
Emphasising that women must create their own fate and personal destiny, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said women can do all outside works maintaining decency as religion Islam gives them that liberty.