India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its 2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Rights Watch said today. The Indian government should file an affidavit with the court to…
Rocco Ritchie, Madonna’s 15-year-old son with British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, is refusing to come home from London to join his mom for the holidays in New York. So Madonna went to court in Manhattan on Wednesday (dressed in a black…
The nation will observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Monday to pay rich tributes to the intellectuals killed by the Pakistan occupation army and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Renowned academics, doctors,…
Mohammad Zainal Abedin New York – Journalists were amazed to see how some of the American prisons change the behavior of those who were awarded long-term sentences for their crimes and establish them in the society as dignified people. On…
Aachen/Berlin/Bonn/New York – For the last few decades, increasing globalization of the world economy and waves of deregulation and privatization have facilitated the emergence and increased the power of private actors, particularly of large transnational corporations. However, it is not…
Dhaka – facebook authorities are set to have talks with the Bangladesh government Sunday on issues of violence against women through the misuse the popular social networking site, official news agency BSS reported quoting state minister for posts and telecommunications…
By Leo Byrne No, not zombies – absence of medical care, standard funeral homes means some are declared dead prematurely I know there are many funeral halls in South Korea. But there were none in my hometown in North Korea.…
Dave Lee Facebook is to add a “dislike” button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said. In a Q+A session held at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old said the button would be a way for…
Leaders of local and international non-government organisations (NGOs) at a seminar in Dhaka on Saturday stressed building partnership based on mutual accountability in relations. ICVA (International Council for Voluntary Associations), local NGOs Bangladesh NGOs For World Humanitarian Summit (BNFWHS) and…
A growing number of developing countries, including Bangladesh, are investing in social safety net programmes to improve the lives and livelihoods vulnerable people, yet around 55 percent of the world’s poor or 773 million people with acute needs still lack…
By Gillian Mohney and John Beck Revelers at Istanbul’s annual gay pride parade were knocked off their feet by water cannons, and hit with rubber bullets and tear gas after Turkish police moved in to disperse the crowd on Sunday.…
Dylann Roof, the suspected gunman in the South Carolina church shooting, had recently been given a weapon as a birthday present, according to a relative. The 21-year-old’s uncle told Reuters that Mr Roof’s father gave him a .45-calibre handgun. Carson…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bangladesh ranked 14th from the bottom in the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2014, two notches worse than last year’s 16th position, showing that the country’s overall corruption scenario has deteriorated compared to the previous year. Executive director of…
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…
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, 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…