Desk Report: A court here on Tuesday convicted two people to life imprisonment for possessing drugs. The convicts are Mithu Islam, son of Rabiul Ilam and Kausar Ali, son of Mobarak Gazi of Chakla village in Jibonnagar upazila.The court also fined each of them Tk 10,000 in default to suffer one year more in rigorous…
PsychologyToday: For years, people have debated whether punishing children works, whether it corrects their behaviors without having any negative long-term consequences. Spanking is one such form of discipline. Does spanking children work? A paper published in the July/August issue of the American Psychologist concludes that physical punishment of children (including spanking) is ineffective, and more importantly,…
Abrar Hussain: Amnesty International has alleged that dozens of migrants working on Qatar’s $45 billion World Cup final city of Lusail have gone unpaid for months, the latest rights accusation against the 2022 tournament host. Mercury MENA “failed to pay its workers thousands of dollars in wages and work benefits, leaving them stranded and penniless”…
Desk Report: A test run of Bangladesh’s first Tier 4 national data centre, comprising the most advanced technology in use around the world, will begin in the first week of October as part of the government’s move to boost the country’s data storage capacity. Commercial operations of the centre, located in the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City…
Desk Report: ‘The money is improving life-saving primary healthcare services and helping build capacity to minimize the spread of disease and the magnitude of its effects in the event of an outbreak’ According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a €1 million grant from the European Union (EU) to the organization has been helping improve…
Syed Rokonuzzaman, Dinajpur: Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md. Mashiur Rahman cleaned water hyacinth and abrogated illegal establishments getting down to slob-water across about two kilometers in the historical Ashura pond of Nawabganj upazila in Dinajpur. Seeing the UNO in the pond, the local people including the political leaders also joined to the cleaning-work. The drive…
Syed Badrul Ahsan: There are certain truths we do not tamper with when it comes to dealing with history. Unlike men like David Irving, we have no reason to question the Holocaust and the reality of six million Jews perishing at the hands of the Nazis. Like so many men and women around the world,…
Hossen Sohel: A South Sudanese doctor who runs an overcrowded hospital with a dimly-lit surgical theatre and no regular supply of general anaesthesia yesterday won the UN refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen award, reports AFP. Evan Atar Adaha’s Maban hospital in the South Sudanese town of Bunj serves more than 144,000 refugees from Blue Nile state…
Desk Report: Ehsan Rafique, the Dhaka University student who was severely beaten by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men in February, has moved to Malaysia due to security concerns, reports Prothom Alo. He will now study at a private university in Malaysia, but the people who the university had suspended for beating Ehsan are still staying…
Utpal Dutta: ‘Bishad Sindhu’, by Mir Mosharraf Hossain an epic narrative retrieved. Entitled ‘Ocean of Melancholy’ is a work of historical fiction translated by Alo Shome was released on 20, September 2018. Placed on the events that led to the battle of Karbala an epic historical novel by Bangladeshi literary colossal Mlr Musharraf Hossain has…