Newborn’s severed body found in Khulna

    UNB Police here on Thursday recovered the severed body of a newborn boy from a dustbin at Tutpara in the city. Sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station Tipu Sultan said they recovered the body of newborn from the dustbin on Central Road around 11:30 am. The left hand, left leg and left ear of the baby…

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      Rights group in Nicaragua closes office after ‘alarming’ threats

      VOA: The Nicaraguan human rights group that has been keeping the outside world abreast of the government’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters says it has been forced to close its offices. The Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights says it has gotten “threatening phone calls” and “alarming information” that authorities were planning to fabricate criminal charges against…

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        Experimental exams and pressure on students

        Dr. Ajoy Roy, Academic : Discussions regarding the education system have been going on for long. Ensuring quality education, right placement of excellence, whether students passing with high marks are able to perceive merit properly, whether they are going through proper nurture, these sectors are now in high concerns. Amid these issues, irregularities and corruption…

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          Facebook uncovers new meddling before 2018 US elections

          Reuters: Facebook has identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead users and organise rallies ahead of November’s US congressional elections, taking 8 down dozens of fake accounts on its site, the company said. A Russian propaganda arm tried to tamper in the 2016 US election by posting and buying ads on Facebook, according…

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            Can Corbyn’s Labour Party rid itself of anti-Semitism?

            John Lloyd/BDnews24 The British political crisis deepens. This is not a Brexit matter, though that is critical enough. Rather it concerns Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party – which is now, according to a poll last month, four points ahead of the ruling Conservative Party. Though Corbyn isn’t personally popular, he could become…

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              TV channels screen ‘Bhalobasar Bangladesh’

              DOT Desk The campaign ‘Bhalobasar Bangladesh’ has been trending on the social media for years, reports The Daily Observer. The participants had submitted over 9500 one-minute videos and three of the country’s top film-makers have made films based on three of them. The films were screened at the ‘Bhalobasar Bangladesh Film Fest 2018’ and also…

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                1.20 lakh Yaba pills seized in Teknaf

                UNB Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 1.20 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets worth Tk 3.5 crore from Hoangbrang bordering area in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.   Topped off, a team of BGB led by Hila BoP Company Commander Nazrul Islam conducted a drive in the sluice gate area along…

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                  What Trump and Modi have in common

                  UNB It’s so unlikely you have to pinch yourself to believe it. Donald Trump, a property billionaire and reality TV star with no political experience, loud, vulgar and with a preposterous hairstyle, is well on his way to becoming the Republican party’s presidential candidate, reports NDTV.   He’s storming into Super Tuesday, when 11 US…

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