A Thai criminal court’s sentencing of 62 people, including a military general, too long prison terms for their mistreatment of Rohingya migrants is a major step in combatting human trafficking in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today. Thai authorities should…
Doctors in the United States continue to perform medically unnecessary surgeries that can inflict permanent harm on intersex children, Human Rights Watch and interACT said in a report released today. Despite decades of controversy over the procedures, doctors operate on…
Khorsheeda Khatun had been left with nothing — then that too was washed away. The 28-year-old fled her home country of Myanmar in January with her two daughters, escaping the latest outbreak of violence, and was living in the Kutupalang…
The government today withdrew deputy commissioners (DCs) of Barguna and Barishal districts replacing them with two new administrative chiefs of the two southwestern districts. “They have been withdrawn from their current postings in Barisal and Barguna . . . two…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called on the filmmakers to produce quality films by upholding the country’s history, culture and tradition and assured that her government will do whatever is necessary to it. “We want those who make movies in…
Global smartphone demand totalled 347 million units in 2Q17, up four percent year-on-year. This makes it the strongest second quarter on record. Emerging Asia led the demand growth with a 13 percent year-on-year increase, followed by Central and Eastern Europe…
BNP on Monday alleged that though the government often talks about a constitution, it has long been violating it by snatching political parties’ right to holding public rallies.“The constitution has enshrined equal rights of all parties to hold public rallies,…
“When there is a will, there is a way.” This was proven once again by three members of a family from Natore – a mother, her son and her elder cousin who sat this year’s Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC)…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday distributed the National Film Award-2015 among its winners in 25 categories.She handed over the awards at a colourful function of the 40th National Film Award held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC).
Following the collapse of communism, many of us in Central and Eastern Europe had hoped that the region would steadily move toward liberal democracy and that any obstacles en route to that goal could be overcome. But in many former…
Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday he will veto a controversial legislative package that would have given the government more control over the judiciary, in a surprise move that appears to have caught his own allies in the ruling Law…
Older people in the city of Volgograd in Russia are teaching sewing, cooking, and housekeeping to orphaned children. They socialise, play, share knowledge of the history of the country, and encourage the orphans to reach their potential by introducing them…
The High Court on Sunday summoned three people, including the Civil Surgeon of Patuakhali, to appear before it on August 1 to explain the incident of leaving a surgical instrument inside the abdomen of a woman during a cesarian operation.…
The Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) has urged the government not to go for any law that appears as barriers to freedom of expression and freedom of the press. NOAB also demanded immediate annulment of the ‘controversial’ section 57…
The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations were published on Sunday, showing a pass percentage of 68.91. Of these, 66.84 percent passed the HSC examinations while 77.20 percent came out successful in Madrassah Board…
A court here on Sunday quashed the much-talked-about defamation case against UNO Gazi Tariq Salman filed for publishing a ‘distorted photo’ of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the invitation card issued on the occasion of Independence Day.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Bangladesh will be built in such a way where there will be no local and foreign conspiracy and no room for bad governance.”Our aim is very much clear… we want to establish Bangladesh…
The Arab League has warned Israel is “playing with fire” over the “red line” of Jerusalem and its foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday over Israeli-Palestinian violence, according to statements on Sunday.Israel sent extra troops into the…
When President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accords, embraced coal, and stacked his administration from people from fossil-fuel producing states, the environmental movement reacted with near-apocalyptic fear and fury. They would have been better off beginning to understand…
The children who are older than six years are at a greater risk of dengue infection since they spend more time in crowded places like schools and parks, says a new study of icddr,b. Under the study, two household serosurveys…
Condemning the filing of an attempt-to-murder case against the demonstrating students of seven colleges here, BNP on Saturday demanded the government immediately withdraw it. “Police charged batons and fired bullets on the students of seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka University…
An Egyptian court has sentenced 28 people to death for their involvement in the assassination of the country’s prosecutor general in 2015.Saturday’s sentences come after consultation with the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s top religious authority, over preliminary death sentences handed to…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the Muslim Ummah faces a danger and crisis as some people choose the wrong path of militancy. “The whole Muslim Ummah has got trapped in danger due to some people’s move to take…
A student of Dhaka University was killed and three others were injured on Saturday afternoon, as the wave of deadly landslides during the ongoing monsoon visited the usually tranquil surroundings of Himchari.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said facilities like open veranda, emergency exits and fire alarms must be there in the buildings of educational institutions.The Prime Minister also said the alarm system has to be there in the toilets to…
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 111,148 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 16 July, with almost 85 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece, Cyprus and Spain. This compares with…
A woman named Khulood was interrogated yesterday in Riyadh and handed over for prosecution. Her transgression? Wearing “indecent” clothing. But the same night, Saudi authorities released her without charge. A brief Snapchat video of Khulood appeared over the weekend with…
A court on Thursday sentenced a man to 30 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping his 14-year old daughter in Sadar upazila.The convicted man was identified as Hanif Uddin, 42, son of late Abdul Khaleq, resident of Dhopaghat Hodipara village in…
In the old, military-ruled Myanmar, it would not have been a surprising scene: three journalists, bound together in chains, raising shackled hands in unison and speaking out against their repressive government. But this moment, captured on video by a local…
Malaysian Immigration Department has rounded up 3,874 illegal immigrants, including 1,326 Bangladeshis, during its nationwide crackdown on illegal migrants carried out since July 1.Besides, 84 employers were arrested by the Immigration Department during the drive, ‘Ops Mega’, Malaysian sate news…