UNHCR.org Nearly 1,500 civilian casualties were reported in Yemen in the period between August to October this year, according to the UNHCR-led Protection Cluster in Yemen. This means an average of 123 civilian deaths and injuries every week during this period. Each new day of the conflict inflicts more suffering on an already battered and…
Police arrested a young man along with one foreign-made pistol, two magazines and three rounds of bullet from Benapole check post area on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Kawser, son of Nur Islam, a resident of Lautali village in Faridganj upazila of Chandpur district. Mafizur Rahman, sub-inspector of Benapole port police station, said…
Desk Report: Ten-year-old Liyon Roy, who put his own life at risk while trying to save a parrot chick, is passing his days in hospital bed amid lack of proper treatment. Liyon, a Class VI student at Sarkarpara Government Primary School in Thakurgaon municipality, is suffering from neurological complications. He has been staying at Thakurgaon…
BSS The law enforcement agencies seized 25 kilograms of smuggled ganja and arrested five persons from different places in Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat districts on Thursday afternoon, police sources said. The arrested persons are: driver of the ambulance Mozaffar Hossain, 40, assistant driver Shafikul Islam, 29, and Sadekul Islam, 20, of different areas under Rangpur Kotwali…
The Atlantic: After all the scandals and hubbub and congressional testimony and mea culpas in Facebook’s nearly 15 years of existence, one would think that its users would have a pretty firm grasp on how the business works. Surely, users know that Facebook uses information about their behaviors and friendships to deduce a constantly updating…
For these seven Muslim-majority countries such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen’s visitors have very weak background screening of their own and it was one of the steps being considered is said by him. President…
Tahmeed Taha Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu invited the owners of television channels of the country to project peace, development and non-communalism before the people. In a meeting of Association of Television Channel Owners’ (ATCO) held in the conference room of the information ministry, he said “Don’t promote linguistic distortion or bad culture”. At the meeting,…
UNDP Fourteen years ago Razia Bewa`s husband passed away, as a 30-year old widow with 4 daughters, she was not prepared for what life had in store for her. Her husband was a landless farmer who worked as a day laborer in other people`s farms and after his death their hand to mouth existence disintegrated….
BBC: Maggie Georgieva is turning a jar of preservative around in her hands. “This is it,” she says. “This is ‘The Hoff’ – the famous yeti crab with a hairy chest,” referring to the object suspended in alcohol. Most of us would be hard pressed to name a recently discovered creature from the deep, and…
M Humayun Kabir: The agitating school and college students did not find license or papers of the jeep of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Naval Police Habib when they checked it after stopping his car on the city street. The high-up of the law enforcing agency was cruising along Karwan Bazar in his black jeep…