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.
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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.
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…
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…
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…
Bd Women Chamber chief Selima Ahmad gets int’l award
The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) has announced Selima Ahmad, vice chairperson of Nitol Niloy Group and president of Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI), as the recipient of the TIAW World of Difference Lifetime Achievement Award-2014-2015. The…
Eating ‘on the go’ could make you fat
Dieters who eat while performing other activities such as walking or watching television may increase their food intake later in the day which could lead to weight gain and obesity, says a new study.”Eating on the go may make dieters…
Nearing milestone, Queen Elizabeth shows no sign of stepping aside
After 63 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth next month becomes Britain’s longest-ruling monarch but there is little prospect of her stepping aside, as other ageing European crowned heads have done, in favour of her son, Charles.
Anti sexual harassment forum set up at RU
Seminar entitled “Say No to Sexual Harassment: Case Based Discussion Meeting” under the project of “Building Institutional Capacity of selected four universities to prevent violence against women” held on Monday at the Law department of Rajshahi University (RU) to increase…
Google morphs into Alphabet; investors cheer clarity
Google Inc announced a surprise overhaul of its operating structure on Monday, creating a holding company called Alphabet to pool its many subsidiaries and separate the core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars.The move appeared to be…
Insight: Tesla burns cash, loses more than $4,000 on every car sold It’s crunch time for Tesla Motors.
The Silicon Valley automaker is losing more than $4,000 on every Model S electric sedan it sells, using its reckoning of operating losses, and it burned $359 million in cash last quarter in a bull market for luxury vehicles.The company…
Bolivia is tripling the size of its subway in the sky
Bolivia already has the largest urban cable car system in the world. Now the booming country is tripling the size of the network and will soon have nine lines whizzing above the administrative capital of La Paz.The Andean city of…
Ancient Hindu temple found built on Buddhist shrine in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur
A Hindu temple sits firmly on the remains of a Buddhist shrine in Dinajpur in an awe-inspiring sight that testifies to the conquest by Hindus of Buddhists at Barendra – a region in ancient north Bengal.Buddhist monasteries and Viharas had…
Sherpur woman stripped during arbitration
In an undeliverable incident of humiliation, a young housewife was allegedly stripped naked during arbitration at Shapmari village in Sadar upazila on Friday. Upset at the utter humiliation, the victim filed a case against four people with Sadar Police Station…
Hackers threaten to leak Ashley Madison’s 37 million clients
Hackers claim to have personal details of more than 37 million cheating spouses on dating website Ashley Madison and have threatened to release nude photos and sexual fantasies of the site’s clients unless it is shut down, blog KrebsOnSecurity reported.…
Female bosses make male employees uneasy: Research
Men may feel threatened by female bosses and act more assertively towards them than male supervisors, new research says.The study published in the journal Society for Personality and Social Psychology said that such behaviour by male employees working with female…
JU VC condemn Ershad for his tongue
Jahangirnagar University (JU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam, also the first female VC of Bangladesh, condemned H M Ershad fior his tongue and demanded a formal apology,for calling the responsible women as ‘showpieces’ in Parliament,
‘Mastermind’ held – forensic test prove gang-rape positive
Police have arrested the mastermind of the gang rape of a young woman at her relative’s house in the city’s Rampura area. The arrestee was identified as Nayem, 20, a resident of Rampura area. Tipped off, a team of Rampura…
Bangladesh urged to combat ‘epidemic of child marriage’
Report by Human Rights Watch says government has not acted on pledges to end child marriage made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year Child marriage in Bangladesh is an epidemic and requires the government to act on its promises…
Fitness vacations favour fun, adventure over weight loss
Fitness vacations have ventured far from the fat farm.Today’s fit-focused travellers want to pair exercise with escapades and fitness with fun, whether it’s yoga among the sea turtles, bootcamp on the beach or a zumba cruise.
Stolen first edition copy of Marquez masterpiece retrieved
The Colombian police have announced that a stolen first-edition copy of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most renowned novel, has been recovered.The book, stolen from the International Book Fair of Bogota on May 2,…
Revitalise skin with water, exercise
Stay hydrated, exercise regularly and follow skin care regime religiously to protect skin from getting damaged. Experts from FashionAndYou, a flash website in the fashion and lifestyle space, share tips on how to save your skin this summer:
Study shows measles vaccine thwarts other infectious diseases
The measles vaccine provides benefits beyond merely protecting against that highly contagious viral respiratory disease that remains a leading childhood killer in parts of the world, scientists say.By blocking the measles infection, the vaccine prevents measles-induced immune system damage that…
‘In A Land Far From Home’, English version of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s memoir ‘Deshe Bideshe’, launched
The English translation of celebrated writer Syed Mujtaba Ali’s famous book ‘Deshe Bideshe’ has been launched in Dhaka.It is the only published eyewitness account of Afghanistan’s tumultuous days in the 1920s by a non-Afghan.
Square dancing runs circles around other hobbies for China’s elderly
Chinese-style square dancing is running circles around other hobbies for the elderly, with millions taking to parks and plazas across China, swivelling their hips and rolling their arms – but it’s not to everyone’s liking.Every evening through the year, hundreds…
No woman, no world
By Sean Buchanan London, Apr 27 2015 (IPS) – Almost exactly two years ago, on the morning of Apr. 24, over 3,600 workers – 80 percent of them young women between the ages of 18 and 20 – refused to…
Rare elephant bird egg could fetch more than $70,000 at auction
Believed to be more than 400 years old and nearly 200 times the size of a chicken egg, an extremely rare elephant bird egg will be auctioned in London this week, with an estimated price tag of up to $76,000.
JU students for trial of sexual offenders
Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have demanded exemplary punishment against sexual harassment of a indigenous female student on the ‘Pahela Baishakh’ night. The demand was voiced from programme under the banner ‘Nipironer Birudhe Jahangirnagar’organised in front of the administration building…