Rubya Tripty The High Court on Monday has directed the hospitals and clinic to release dead body of poor and destitute people even if the family failed to pay treatments and hospital costs and create a fund to help poor and marginalized people. The high court bench of justice comprising Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and…
Reuters: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could step down if the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos succeeds in overturning his 2016 vice presidential election defeat, Duterte’s spokesman said on Thursday. Duterte’s single term ends in June 2022 and he has spoken often recently about quitting before that. At two separate events on Tuesday he said…
Reuters: Five Kenyan soldiers were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday when their car ran over a homemade bomb in northern Kenya, the military said. A Kenya Defence Forces statement did not say who it believed was responsible for the attack in coastal Lamu County although it referenced “lurking terror elements” in the region. On…
Reporter by: Arifur Rahman Tuhin Written by: Eshan Maitra Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) will be establishing several Industrial Corridors by the important highways routes. PM already approved of this, informed BIDA Chairman Kazi M Aminul Islam in a meeting at their office, on Monday. Even, primary ground surveying are complete and Asian Development Bank…
Farid Hafez/Daily Sabah, Turkey When the Christian-democratic conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) together with the right-wing populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) formed a coalition government last December 2017, a new regulation was announced. The government argued that it would ban the hijab for Muslim pupils from kindergarten to elementary school (until the age of 10). Such…
BSS Taking the burden of her five-member family expenses on her tiny shoulder, 10-year Rokhsana works at a bidi factory in Lalmonirhat leaving her out of education, a basic right of children. Living in Kalmatirpara of Lalmonirhat district, she has been preparing bidi shells with her mother as a child labour since the age of…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT In a significant development, police on Tuesday night arrested the main suspect from Tongi in Gazipur district in a case filed over the murders of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tanoy in 2016, reports UNB. Assadullah, the arrestee, was caught during a raid by the counter-terror police…
Sky News Nearly half of children’s slime toys failed the EU safety limit for the presence of a potentially harmful chemical, research found. The consumer association Which? tested 13 products from a range of high street and online retailers. Five failed the limit for the chemical element boron in toys, while another product classified as…
Abrar Hussain: A South Korean court has sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to an additional eight years in prison yesterday after she was found guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election. Park was already sentenced to 24 years in jail by a lower court in April…
UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday sought cooperation from the country’s Islamic scholars in spreading out a message among people that there is no place for militancy and terrorism in Islam as it is a religion of peace. “I seek your cooperation in establishing the belief among people that there’s no place of…