Shah Abdul Halim In the recent past on several occasions I have written on the question whether a dayee, caller of Islam, should be a paid whole-timer or he should be a professional. The question is whether one who calls…
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Khelafat Andolon condemns attack on Dinajpur ISKCON Temple
Joint Statement by Secretary General Maulana Muhammad Zafarullah Khan and Minority Affairs Advisor Shree Sanjeeb Chowdhury of Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon (Bangladesh Khelafat Movement We are unequivocally expressing our condemnation of the cowardly attack by miscreants on ISKCON (International Society for…
Rural women behind community climate resilience in Africa
Small farmers – mainly women – produce 80% of the food in Africa on just 14.7% of the agricultural land, and control 80% of the seeds produced and exchanged on small farms. The African Biodiversity Network, Gaia Foundation and African…
Dhaka’s Central Hospital inks pact with India’s BLK Super Speciality Hospital
News Desk Country will have access to world-class infrastructure, medical capabilities of New Delhi based Hospital.
Fragrance of Hajj and national chauvinism
Shah Abdul Halim In my book Hajj: Journey of a Lifetime which I wrote after performing pilgrimage in 2014, I explained about the significance of the various aspects of the hajj. During the hajj strikingly I observed fellow feeling among…
Saudi Arabia elects first female politicians
At least four women elected to municipal councils in Saudi Arabia’s first poll open to female voters and candidates. At least four women have won seats in Saudi Arabia’s municipal polls, the country’s first-ever elections open to female voters and…
Votes counted after historic Saudi poll allowing women
Votes are being counted in Saudi Arabia’s municipal elections, in which women were allowed for the first time to cast their ballots. Officials said about 130,000 women had registered to vote in Saturday’s poll, compared with 1.35 million of men.
Meet Ukraine’s Darth Vader
Darth Vader was bent on galactic domination, but his Ukrainian namesake enjoys more mundane pursuits – local politics, walking the family dog and embroidery.While audiences around the world have had to wait 10 years for the latest film in the…
Marriageable age for girls remains 18
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki on Friday said the government is not going to lower the minimum age of marriage for girls from 18.
Michelle Obama makes rap video
Striding out of the White House in slow motion, sporting oversized sunglasses, Michelle Obama lays down a rap track aimed at raising the star power of math majors and engineering students.”If you wanna fly jets, you should go to college.…
Mother milk project starts
icddr,b, in collaboration with Interfab Shirt Manufacturing Limited (ISML), on Thursday launched ‘Mother’s Milk project’ which will enable women to take home pasteurized breast milk that stays safe for eight hours.
Women can do works maintaining decency: Hasina
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.
E-cigarettes contain harmful chemicals
Three in four e-cigarettes were found to use a flavored liquid that has been linked to severe respiratory disease, US researchers said Tuesday.Electronic cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a nicotine-containing liquid, which is inhaled much like a cigarette.Unlike traditional…
Action movies make people cheaters
If you are a movie buff, better cut down on action films! Researcers have found that watching violent movies or reading books with violent content can make you more likely to lie or cheat, suggests new research.Exposure to human violence…
Women more diverse in sexual response
Exploring sexual identity, sexual attraction and sexual arousal in women, new research shows that heterosexual women have more diverse patterns of sexual response than previously reported.In the first study, women watched short videos, and in the second study, women listened…
Rudeness at work may become a vicious circle
Being subjected to rudeness is a major reason for dissatisfaction at work and unpleasant behaviour spreads if nothing is done about it, a study says.Workplace incivility should be treated with the utmost seriousness. This is the finding of three psychologists…
UNGA adopts Bangladesh resolution on “Culture of Peace”
Dhaka – The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has unanimously adopted a resolution titled “Culture of Peace” proposed by Bangladesh. According to a message received here today, the resolution was adopted at a UNGA meeting on Thursday (Yesterday). As many…
Being a transgender in China
At home her son still calls her daddy, at work she dresses in a masculine style, but this Chinese person has a “little secret” — she was born male, but is not any more.She had long identified as a woman,…
HC asks for arrest of hospital staff for sexual abuse
The High Court on Thursday directed the Gulshan thana police to arrest United Hospital staff (brother) Saiful Islam and produce him before the court on December 7 for ‘sexually harassing’ a female patient. It also issued a rule asking the…
Shia mosque gun attack: 3 on remand
A court here on Saturday placed three people, arrested in connection with the Thursday’s gun attack on a Shia mosque at Haripur village in Shibganj upazila, on remand of different terms.
Demonising Islam
Afzal Ahmad Khan Perhaps, no religion of world permits destruction and violence; instead they all preach for peace and harmony among human beings. However, western countries belonging to a particular color of skin think themselves as superior from others, have…
In Zimbabwe’s scourge of child marriage
Birgit Schwarz At 14, Justine firmly believed that the world was her oyster and the future hers to shape and conquer. She was bright and her mother made enough money as a seamstress to send her to a decent public…
Saudi poet sentenced to death for Apostasy
Reverses Earlier Ruling of 4 Years, 800 Lashes (Beirut) – A Saudi court sentenced a Palestinian man to death for apostasy on November 17, 2015, for alleged blasphemous statements during a discussion group and in a book of his poetry.…
Establish rights of disabled women, seminar told
A National Seminar on “Rights of Disabled Woman and Child 2015” was held on Wednesdayat the Biduyt Bhaban, Bijoy Hall, Abdul Gani Road, Dhaka. The objective of seminar was to focus to promote the focus for making the rights real…
Gun-toting protesters rally against ‘Islamization’ near Texas mosque
By Atoosa Moinzadeh A dozen protesters — some carrying weapons — lined up outside a mosque in Irving, Texas on Saturday to call for an end to “the Islamization of America.” David Wright, a member of a group called the…
Bullies may also have eating disorders
Not just victims, even bullies themselves are at an increased risk for anxiety, depression and eating disorders, a new study says.In this study of 1,420 children, the researchers found that those who bullied others were twice as likely to display…
Teens suffer for too many Facebook friends
Having more than 300 Facebook friends may increase a teenager’s levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, says a new study.”While other important external factors are also responsible, we estimated that the isolated effect of Facebook on cortisol was around eight…
Saudi harsh tradition dilemma
Saudi Arabia’s harsh religious tradition is seen by many outsiders – and some Saudi liberals – as a root cause of the international jihadist threat that has inflamed the Middle East for years and struck in Paris last week.However, while…
1 billion people have no toilet!
Some 2.4 billion people around the world don’t have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers, according to the United Nations.Launching its World Toilet Day campaign…
Guinness records break moulds
From a dog skate-boarding through a tunnel of human legs to a man holding lit candles in his mouth, people around the world have been marking Guinness World Records Day with a range of quirky feats.From the young to the…