Category: Femina

The United States has voiced its “strong concern” to China over threats from Beijing to enforce its claims to a set of disputed Pacific islands controlled by Japan but claimed by the People’s Republic.

Agartala: Three tribal militants, who had fled from their hideout in southeastern Bangladesh along with their families, surrendered to security forces in Tripura, police said here Thursday.

Unarguably, Mahatma Gandhi remembered as the “Father of the Nation” took many democratic steps to reach out to the Indian masses and identified himself with them.

Speakers at a roundtable here have stressed for ensuring women rights to gender and reproductive health, eradicating violence and repression for flourishing women leadership in building a developed nation.

More gender-sensitive media reporting has become indispensable to free society from child marriage and gender disparity that needed to establish rights of the women, some working journalists told a meeting here today.

A number of poor women in the rural and urban areas of the district achieved self-reliant by struggling against poverty and engaged themselves in various income generation activities.

Mari Stops Bangladesh under its project Urban Health: strengthening care for poor mothers and new born in Bangladesh, opened a new maternity clinic at Basial (Shaheed Lokman Hossain Road) in Narsingdi town today Tuesday.

Speakers at a function here on Wednesday stressed the need for checking early marriage anyhow to protect children from malnutrition and various types of diseases and its complexities.

The Directorate of Woman & Children affairs and Kishoreganj District Administration join the organised a close dialogue on “Apnora Kemon Asen” held at Kishoreganj collectorate conference on Wednesday.

Speakers at a fair inaugural ceremony have said the charter of changes can be realised for building a medium income digital Bangladesh through ensuring rights of children and women for their development.

A man has been living in Kuwait for 10 years with fake identities to hide his original name. Now he is staying in Bangladesh. He can leave the country any day.

Badarganj will be the first upazila to become free from the social curses of child marriage and dowry through setting up a unique example in near future.

Four men have been found guilty of the fatal gang rape of a student in the Indian capital Delhi last December.

A welfare project entitled “Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition (IMCN)” launched in August, 2011 runs smoothly creating positive impacts to the undernourished mothers and children in the district.

Taking stern action against the drug smuggling, trafficking and addiction has become an urgent need for the sake of protecting the young generation from drug aggression as it is destroying the promising youth forces, speakers at a discussion said.

Speakers at a human chain programme here have asked all for launching vigorous social movement involving people from all walks to bring an end to all sorts of repression and violence against women.

Self-castration, suicide and waves of desperation are byproducts of the denial of sex hormones to inmates yearning to switch genders, advocates say. But outside the walls, debate has been stirred on whether the prison system is the right place to…

By Sinisa Jakov Marusic

Hindus are critical of international pop icon Lady Gaga for what they see as trivialization of revered system of yoga in her new video in which she appears striking yoga postures completely naked.

VANCOUVER—Rumana Monzur can picture a towering mountain or the blue sky on a sunny day. She remembers what the ocean looks like and can still conjure an image of water stretching out to the horizon.

A BRAC Bank Manager was taken on custody and sent to jail for alegedly tourturing  his wife and demanding dawry,

A plaque from President Hamid Karzai sits on Noor Zia Atmar’s desk, congratulating her for her achievements as a lawmaker. The desk is in a shelter for abused women.

A  day-long workshop to form Women Development Forum consisting of elected women representatives in UP and municipality level with a view to increasing awareness and skill was held at Upazila Parishad Auditorium on Wednesday July 03. At 10 am Deputy…

Ensuring economic rights to the married women in their family life is very important to reduce violence and repression against them, speakers at a daylong participatory discussion said here on Saturday.

The mass media has been playing important role in changing the social mindset for women empowerment and flourishing women leadership in every sphere of the society, speakers said this here yesterday afternoon. They were addressing a views-sharing meeting organised by…

Thirty, two-thirds of 45 candidates contesting in 10 seats reserved for female councilors in 30 wards under Barisal City Corporation, introduced themselves as housewifes in profession criteria.

A woman was killed allegedly by her son at Narendrapur village in Kachua upazila on Sunday.

(Staff Reporter) Speakers at a roundtable on Tuesday urged the government to implement Social Assistance Programme for Non-Asseters or ‘SAPNA’ package, a maternity allowance programme, at state level to eradicate poverty from the country and ensure social security. Power and…