UNB: Expressing frustration over the low conviction rate and prosecution of traffickers in Bangladesh, trade union leaders, labour lawyers and migrant rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to take measures to protect migrant workers from traffickers. The government has to take tough actions against human traffickers, ensure exemplary punishment for them and justice for…
Channelnewsasia: Polish police have detained at least 10 people since Tuesday over calls on social media for murder and acts of aggression made in the wake of the killing on a public stage of Gdansk’s mayor. Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, a critic of anti-immigrant policies, was stabbed on Sunday evening by a man who rushed the…
Anadolu Agency: Malaysia will not host any events involving Israel in the future, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. “The Cabinet decision is reflective of the firm stand of the Malaysian government,” Saifuddin Abdullah told a news conference following a meeting on Palestine, according to local daily Malay Mail. The cabinet affirmed last week…
Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan writes for DOT : Gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her timely intervention to fix the pay raise fiasco of the Garment workers who have been on the street for the last few days demanding the elimination of disparity related to pay raise. A joint meeting of…
DOT Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir should resign from his party shouldering the responsibility for the failures both in the movement and the election, reports The Daily Star. “As a secretary general he couldn’t carry out a movement for 10 minutes over the last…
Hindustan Times: Four of the five nuns of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation, who supported their colleagues when she levelled rape charges against former bishop of Jalandhar Franco Mullakkal, have been asked to leave the convent in Kuravilangad of Kerala’s Kottayam. “You have chosen in your own individual capacity to support and pursue the legal…
Hossen Sohel of DOT : Veteran journalist Amanullah Kabir passed away at the age of 72, reports bdnews24.com. He breathed his last around 1 am at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday. His journalistic career spanned more than four decades. Kabir joined country’s first online news portal bdnews24.com as a senior editor in 2013….
The Guardian, UK: A court in Montengro has sentenced an investigative journalist to 18 months in prison, on charges that press freedom advocates have described as bogus and intended as a warning to others in the Balkan country. The court in Podgorica handed down the sentence to Jovo Martinović on Monday, finding him guilty of…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Char Jabbar Police Station OC Nizam Uddin has been withdrawn on charge of negligence in his duty on the election day in Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila, reports The Daily Observer. Ilias Sharif, superintendent of Noakhali police, confirmed media about the withdrawal yesterday. Sudharampur Police Station inspector Md Shahed Chowdhury took the charge…
Alberto Salvo, Associate professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore/ Today Online News reports of a study I authored, published in Nature Communications last month, have put the spotlight on how different segments of society may be affected by climate change. What can we infer from…