M Humayun Kabir: The European Union (EU) yesterday expressed concern over recent violent scenes in Dhaka and sought investigation into the actions against protesters and journalists to hold perpetrators accountable. “Incidents of unlawful or disproportionate violence or action against protestors, journalists or others need to stop; those that happened must be investigated and perpetrators be…
BSS: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to serve notices on the listed drug peddlers by this month asking them to submit their wealth statements to the commission. “We are about to complete inquiry into assets of some listed drug peddlers and it will start serving notices on them by this month asking them to…
Arafat Hasan: Four workers were killed and nine were missing after an explosion on Monday night at a small coal mine in China’s Guizhou province, according to state-owned Xinhua News. The incident happened at Zimujia coal mine, run by private-owned Pannan Coal Investment Co, in Panzhou city. The coal mine has designed annual capacity of…
Sayeed Muhummad: Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has turned down a statement issued by the US embassy in Dhaka over the attacks on student protesters for road safety, calling it to be unprecedented. The minister made the statement said this while talking to reporters at his Secretariat office in Dhaka yesterday, reports Bangla daily Prothom…
Kabir Humayun: A Dhaka court yesterday extended the bail of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia until September 5 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Acting Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam passed the order as Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 was on leave, reports UNB. The court of Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman, on July 31,…
Desk Report: Indigenous peoples have sought recognition of their identities, way of life and their right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources for years, yet throughout history their rights have always been violated. Indigenous peoples today, are arguably among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world. The international community now…
Hindustan Times: An Army major and three soldiers were killed while foiling an infiltration bid in north Kashmir’s Gurez sector, officials said on yesterday. At least two militants were killed in the operation, they added. The encounter between the patrolling party of the Rashtriya Rifles and the infiltrating group took place at Govind Nallah in…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age : Two million people — Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs — died in the carnage. Fifteen million left their ancestral homes, uprooted by hate ignited by misrepresentations and misinterpretations of faith, to seek new abodes in lands they had never been to before. Seventy one years after the violent division of…
Reuters: Three journalists working for independent news outlets in Belarus have been detained on suspicion of hacking the computers systems of state-run news agency BelTA and stealing its data, authorities said on Tuesday. Investigators said they had opened a criminal case against the two editors from the privately owned independent news website “Tut.by” and one…
Reuters: Three Congo Republic peacekeepers were given sentences of just three years in jail for murdering civilians and are now already free, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, describing the sentences as inadequate and unlikely to discourage future abuse. A court in the Congolese capital Brazzaville sentenced each of the soldiers in April for the…