Dhaka, Mar 23 (UNB)-The elected leaders of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) took over their respective charges for one year in its first executive meeting held on Saturday. The meeting began around 11:30 am at the hall room on…
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HC revokes sacked AL leader’s bail over polls-time gang rape
Dhaka, Mar 23 (UNB) – The High Court on Saturday revoked its previous order that granted a one-year interim bail to sacked Awami League leader Ruhul Amin in a case over the gang-rape of a woman in Subarnachar upazila of…
Free transport sector from political influence: Dr Kamal
Dhaka, Mar 23 (UNB) – Gono Forum, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, on Saturday demanded that steps be taken to free the transport sector from political influence and laws be properly enforced to ensure safe roads. The party came up…
Dhaka struggling to restore traffic discipline
Dhaka, Mar 20 (UNB) – Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, one of the world’s most densely populated cities, is struggling to bring back discipline on its streets. Violation of traffic rules, reckless driving and evil race on roads by drivers have become…
Protests over university student’s death continue
Dhaka, Mar 20 (UNB)— Protests triggered by the death of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury continued on Wednesday. Students of private universities demonstrated in front of Bashundhara Residential Area’s main gate to force the authorities accept…
World’s Largest Criminal Industry: Modern Slavery
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 2019 (IPS) – Modern slavery and human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries and one of the biggest human rights crises today, United Nations and government officials said. During an event as part of…
Thailand: Structural Flaws Subvert Election – HRW
(New York) – Thailand’s military government has failed to create conditions for a free and fair national election on March 24, 2019, Human Rights Watch said. The process for forming a new government, in which the junta-appointed Senate will have half the…
UN concerned at fresh fighting in Rakhine
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – UN acting Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar Knut Ostby has expressed deep concern over new reports of fighting between the “Arakan Army” and Myanmar security forces causing civilian casualties and displacement of communities in…
Francotte’s show “Being The Other” begins in Dhaka City
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – How do we speak about something we cannot see? Fabienne Francotte show “Being the Other” is concerned with giving this question form. This series maps junctures of shared trauma communicated through wordless intimacies that the…
BD Anti-graft body for staying film move on Jaha Alam
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB)— The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday moved the High Court seeking a stay order on a proposed film on Jaha Alam, who spent three years in jail in place of the real accused in two dozen…
Khaleda unable to eat properly: Fakhrul
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that their chairperson Khaleda Zia neither can eat anything properly nor keep her head straight as her health condition has seriously deteriorated. “She vomited today…
Dhaka issues travel advice for BD nationals in Australia
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – Bangladesh has issued travel advice for its nationals living in Australia and travelling to the country. They are advised to be vigilant at all times, particularly in public places, stay informed of potential risks to…
Students call countrywide class boycott Wednesday
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – The private university students who were demonstrating on Tuesday called for boycotting classes in all the educational institutions across the country on Wednesday to press for their eight-point demand, including maximum punishment of the bus…
Green money without inflation
To what extent can the money created by the central bank be used to finance investments in the environment? This is a question often asked today. The green activists respond with enthusiasm that the central bank—and, in particular, the European…
A 3-trillion-dollar business UNEP wants people to develop
NAIROBI, Mar 12 2019 (IPS) – In the East African region, communities around the continent’s largest water body, Lake Victoria, regard the water hyacinth as a great menace that clogs the lake and hampers their fishing activities. But in Lagos, Nigeria,…
University student’s death on road sparks protests in Dhaka
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – Students of different private universities blocked the road in front of Jamuna Future Park following the death of a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) in a road crash in front of Bashundhara gate…
Asian shares advance under impact of US-China trade talks
Tokyo, Mar 18 (AP/UNB) — Shares rose in Asia on Monday as investors awaited signs the U.S. and China could be making progress in negotiations on resolving the trade war between the two biggest economies. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added…
Next hearing in Gatco graft case against Khaleda April 17
Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNB) – A court here on Monday fixed April 17 for the next hearing in the Gatco corruption case filed against BNP chief Khaleda Zia and others as she could not be produced before the court due…
Students continue demo for DU students union reelection
Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNB) – Students of Dhaka University on Monday demonstrated on the campus demanding reelection to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu). Several hundred students, including activists and followers of the different panels who boycotted the Ducsu polls,…
Two years in jail for fish, fish products adulteration in BD
Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNB) – The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of the Fish and Fish Product (Inspection and Quality Control) Bill, enhancing the maximum punishment to two-year imprisonment for adulterating fish and fish products, and other…
PM unveils ‘Bangla Bhashar Bangabandhu’
Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday unveiled the cover of a book titled ‘Bangla Bhashar Bangabandhu’, which illustrated the contributions of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the Language Movement and Bangla. She uncovered the pictorial…
BD rejects US report on HR, sends protest note
Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNB) – Bangladesh has rejected the US State Department’s 2018 country reports on human rights practices saying many things about Bangladesh mentioned in the report ‘by and large’ more applicable to the US rather than Bangladesh. “I’ve…
Poll official among 7 killed in BD Hill District gun attack
Rangamati, Mar 18 (UNB) – Seven people, including an assistant presiding officer, were killed and an presiding officer among 13 was injured in a gun attack on a vehicle of a motorcade carrying election officials and law enforcers in Baghaichhari…
Never allow anti-liberation forces in power again: PM Hasina
Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the people of the country to remain vigil so that anti-liberation forces, killers, terrorists and militants cannot assume state power again for playing with their fate. She made…
Women take the lead tackling climate change in Bangladesh
LONDON / DHAKA, Mar 15 2019 (IPS) – The stakes are high for women when faced with a warming world – their livelihoods jeopardised by labour markets that tend to put men first, their family responsibilities increasing rapidly in the face…
Hundreds of thousands unite in climate strike for the Planet
ROME, Mar 16 2019 (IPS) – Friday, Mar. 15 saw hundreds of thousands of young people across the world take to the streets to join the climate strike. “We are demonstrating today for our planet and for our future. This is…
Christchurch gun shop sold rifles online to accused shooter
Christchurch, Mar 18 (AP/UNB) — A Christchurch gun shop on Monday acknowledged selling guns online to the 28-year-old white supremacist accused of killing 50 people in mosque shootings that have upturned New Zealand’s reputation as among the world’s most tolerant…
After terror attack, New Zealand leader shows resolve, empathy
Christchurch, Mar 17 (AP/UNB)— The attributes that helped Jacinda Ardern rise to become New Zealand’s leader at age 37 include her optimistic outlook and bright personality. And she became an inspiration to working women around the world last year when…
Lone non-pro govt Ducsu VP-elect Nur again seeks reelection
Dhaka, Mar 17 (UNB) – A day after the meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Ducsu VP-elect Nurul Haq Nur on Sunday evening demanded reelection to all the posts of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union and its hall unions, bringing…
Voting in 116 upazilas begins BD local govt polls phase II
Dhaka, Mar 18 (UNB) – Voters in 16 districts across Bangladesh are exercising their franchise in the second phase of upazila election. Balloting started at 8am on Monday and will end at 4pm in 116 upazilas. A total of 377…