Abrar Hussain The UNICEF declared on Wednesday that Rohingya children need a political solution to the issue of legal identity and citizenship and in the interim they need to be recognized first and foremost as children, reports Daily Star.At a press briefing in Geneva, Unicef Spokesperson Marixie Mercado said, “The Convention on the Rights of the…
Sayeed Muhammad A Dhaka court has expressed its resentment on BNP chief Khaleda Zia and her lawyer as her late arrival delayed yesterday’s pre-scheduled hearing in the Zia Orphanage Trust case for nearly one hour and a half hour.According to the court sources, the defence lawyers were supposed to start placing closing argument in the graft…
Abrar Hussain Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that $1 billion as well as other properties belonging to the sons of Begum Khaleda Zia ere traced in Belgium, Malaysia, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, reports Bss. “Of them, 750 million dollars were traced in Belgium, 250 million dollars in Malaysia, while houses, markets and other property…
Abrar Hussain Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Wednesday stated that Bangladesh is a safe place for foreigners as the government has taken the necessary measures to ensure security of foreign nationals, reports Bss.He made the comments when newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi called on him at the latter’s office here in…
Suzana Rahman While litigation over Trump’s decision unfolds, US district judge William Alsup rules the Dreamers program must remain in place. The U.S. judge in San Francisco has blocked Donald Trump from ending an Obama-era program that shielded from deportation children brought to the United States illegally by their parents. Former president Barack Obama in…
Suzana Rahman The prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif claimed he had been ‘persecuted’ over the years and ‘pushed towards revolt’ while speaking to lawyers at the Punjab House in Islamabad on January 9. “Sharif drew parallels between what he considers to be his own ‘cornering’ by the state and the events that led to…
Suzana Rahman Ecu-ador says it is considering inviting a third-party mediator to tackle its long-standing disagreement with Britain over the fate of Julian Assange. The situa tion was described as “unsustainable” by the foreign minister. Political asylum claims the Wikileaks founder has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012. He was originally…
Suzana Rahman Police arrest Oyub Titiev, claiming marijuana was found in his car, but activists say he is victim of trumped-up charges. Oyub Titiev, the office director at the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the southern Russian republic, was arrested on January 9. Russian human rights activists said the charges are an attempt to stamp…
Suzana Rahman Fre-nch actress Catherine Deneuve has said that men should be “free to hit on” women. She is one of 100 well-known French women who wrote an open letter, warning about a new “puritanism” sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals. The letter deplores a wave of “denunciations” after claims that US movie mogul Harvey…
Abrar Hussain The World Bank has predicted that the global economy will grow by 3.1% this year, reports the Washington Post.The United States, the world’s largest economy, is expected to receive a boost from the $1.5 trillion tax cut package Congress approved last month.On Tuesday the World Bank upgraded its prediction for 2018 by 0.3…