The Inspector General of Police (IGP) A K M Shahidul Huq donated Tk 1 lakh to the family members of late journalist of the daily Amar Desh Shamsus Salehin at his Police Headquarters’s office on Thursday. The IGP formally handed…
Category: Society
‘Put global citizenship at centre of post-2015 Dev agenda’
UN, Jun (IPS) – When Denmark hosted the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD) in March 1995, one of the conclusions of that international gathering in Copenhagen was to create a new social contract with “people at the centre of…
Exposing lies, telling the truth
Robert J. Burrowes I have just read Andre Vltchek’s new book ‘Exposing Lies of the Empire’. http://badak-merah.weebly.com/exposing-lies-of-the-empire.html Let me tell you something about this book of 800 pages. Vltchek writes with passion and poetry, describing the true horror experienced by…
Manik Mia Foundation office launched
A foundation named after renowned journalist Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia was launched at a simple ceremony at the Ittefaq Bhaban in the presence of eminent politicians, writers, university teachers, editors of newspapers and journalists. Organisers said its objective should be…
Tension in National Press Club over election
Tension prevailed in the National Press Club Dhaka for the second consecutive day on Saturday as a committee chosen from amongst workers of the pro-Awami League members taking 10 out of 17 seats and a pro-Bnp dissident group taking seven…
Peace lessons: How to reduce violence
Robert J. Burrowes If you are interested in learning more about the meaning of, and the relationships among, direct, structural and cultural violence and how one peace studies scholar suggests we use the integrative power of nonviolence to address violence…
World Press Freedom Day observed in RU
World press freedom day has been observed at Rajshahi University in Bangladesh today by Rajshahi University Journalist Association (RUJA). On the occasion of the day, RUJA brought out a procession on campus in front of the RUJA office at 10:00am…
Why Kim Jong Un cancelled his Russia visit
A widely anticipated event is not happening. As the Russian President’s press secretary stated for the record this week: Marshal Kim Jong Un will not be participating in forthcoming celebrations for VE day in Moscow. This is hardly a surprising…
First the Taliban, then the Army, now hunger
By Ashfaq Yusufzai Peshawar, Mar (IPS) – A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai refugee camp, about 35 km by road from Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.…
5 things one should know about the S’pore, Hong Kong budgets
Jessica Cheam Here’s a look at the Budget measures of Asia’s top two cities from the sustainability perspective. This week, Asia’s top two cities Singapore and Hong Kong unveiled Budgets whose measures signal a growing recognition by their governments on…
Assam journos protest police access to public space
By Nava Thakuria For three days, the journalist fraternity of Assam demonstrated their angers against the police atrocities on various occasions. The media persons expressed apprehension that the police commissionerate, which was introduced in Guwahati city of northeast India since…
The face of Sri Lanka’s former war zone, 6 years on
By Amantha Perera Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Jan (IPS) – In four months’ time, Sri Lanka will mark the sixth anniversary of the end of its bloody civil conflict. Ever since government armed forces declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of…
‘Swammilita Samajik Andolan’ for political solution of crisis
Speakers at a discussion here on Saturday urged the country’s political parties to take the path of peaceful democracy shunning violence. Sammilita Samajik Andolon arranged the discussion at the Liberation War Museum auditorium in the city. The speakers also urged…
Why is near term human extinction inevitable?
Robert J. Burrowes If you hadn’t previously heard the expression ‘near term human extinction’, you have now. And you will get used to hearing it soon unless you insulate yourself from reality with greater effectiveness than you are doing by…
44th Victory Day celebrated Tuesday
The 44th Victory Day commemorating its glorious victory in the nine-month bloody war against the occupation forces in 1971 was celebrated on Tuesday with a pledge to uphold the spirit of the Liberation War. Thousands of people paid rich tributes…
Role of mangrove forests in boosting sustainable livelihoods
Susan Rosemary Fenton The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is committed to addressing both the consequences and the root causes of climate change, as stated in its Strategy 2020, and outlined in its 2013-2016 Plan…
Syed Ashraf tells of fraud of Destiny, 13 other coop societies
The Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited has defrauded the public of Tk 1448 crore 78 lakh 73,952. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam informed Parliament of this on Sunday, replying to a question from ruling party MP M Israfil…
Badsah, Elias new president GS of DRU
Sakhawat Hossain Badsha, special correspondent of the daily Inqilab and Elias Hossain, special correspondent of Independent TV, were elected president and general secretary respectively of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Sunday for the 2015 term. Badsha bagged 366 votes while…
Yunus addresses social enterprise UK celebration
Nobel laureate Professor Yunus addressed as chief guest at the celebration of fourth anniversary of social enterprise UK held at the British parliament building to celebrate the occasion of Social Enterprise Day on November 20. Yunus congratulated the Houses of…
Hijras celebrate being Bangladesh’s ‘Third Gender’
About a thousand Hijras took part in Bangladesh’s first ever “Hijra Pride” in the capital Dhaka last week to celebrate the first anniversary of their recognition as a separate gender by the government. Hijra is a feminine gender identity that…
Jahangir Mohammad Adel laid to rest
Jahangir Mohammad Adel, a former MP of Jatiya Party, was laid to rest at his family graveyard at Sobhanbagh here today. The first namaz-e-janaza was held after Juma prayers at Tara Mosque in Armanitola of Old Dhaka. Begum Rawshan Ershad’s…
BCS job assurance exposes govt’s extreme politicisation: BNP
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that PM’s adviser HT Imam’s reported assurance about arranging government jobs for Chhatra League activists has exposed the government’s extreme politicisation and nepotism. “The government has already politicised the…
South Korea ferry disaster trial: Relatives angry at verdict
A verdict of negligence rather than homicide on three senior officers of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 has angered many victims’ relatives as too lenient. “Do you know how many children are dead?”…
Memorial service for former Australian PM Gough Whitlam
Thousands of Australians have watched a memorial service for the country’s former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, Wednesday following the event on public screens in several locations. He was the country’s leader for less than three years, from 1972 to 1975,…
Alarming rise in number of street children
There are around 1.05 million street children now living in the country. The number will increase up to 1.60 million by the year 2024, said Tahmina Jesmine, executive director of Social and Economic Enhancement Program (SEEP) at a press conference…
US immigrants are too scared to call the police
Amy Braunschweiger For years Claudia lived a clandestine life in Nashville’s Clairmont Apartment complex – a clutch of buildings on the city’s south side that had become home to hundreds of low-income immigrants. Claudia rarely ventured outside the lines of…
BJP has risen like a phoenix from the depths of despair
SouticK Biswas s the leads poured in on Friday morning, it was clear that the party was steaming ahead to India’s biggest election victory in 30 years. This, after two losing two elections in a row – the party was…
Constant arguing ‘increases premature death risk’
Having frequent arguments with partners, friends or relatives can increase the risk of death in middle-age, say Danish researchers. Writing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, they said men and those not in work were most vulnerable. Dealing…
Civil society leaders protest abductions, killings
Eminent citizens on Monday expressed deep concerns at frequent incidents of abduction, disappearance and killing and said that the government had miserably failed to tackle law and order and ensure security of lives and property of the people. They said…
Lack of support in Japanese orphanages
Amy Braunschweiger Masashi Suzuki sat in the quiet upstairs level of the McDonald’s in a Tokyo suburb. The restaurant was bright and cheerful, but Masashi’s expression was somber. His parents abandoned him as a baby, he said slowly, in a…