UNB The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on the Fifth Periodic Report of Bangladesh has expressed concern over the minimum age of marriage and violence against children. The Committee recommended establishing a Children’s Ombudsperson aiming to ensure rights and justice to children in Bangladesh. In its concluding observation report,…
UNB Four suspected robbers were injured in a reported gunfight with detectives during a robbery incident at a sweater factory at Kadda Islampur in the city early Friday. A gang of robbers, numbering 15-16, entered the factory of ‘Ocean Sweater Limited’ around 2:30 am with the help of Hasan Ali, a security gourd, and looted…
UNB Detectives in a drive arrested three alleged arms traders along with two firearms and some ammunition at Munshi Bagdanga village in Jessore district town early Friday. Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) police raided the house of Shahinur Rahman, 30, son of Golam Sardar, and arrested him around 2:45 am, said DB…
UNB Five members of a family, including two children, sustained life threatening burn injuries when a gas stove went up in flames suddenly at a house in the city’s Uttara area on Friday morning. The injured–Shahnewaz, 50, an employee of American Embassy, his wife Sumaiya, 40, their three sons–Shalil, 15, Zarf, 11, and 14-month-old…
UNB Three schoolboys received stab injuries in an attack by miscreants, reportedly over a previous enmity, at Jamsing Moholla in Savar municipality area early Friday. Police, quoting locals said, a group of miscreants swooped on the three boys–Sagar and Rakib, class VII students of Shukurjan Jinnat Ali High School, and Alamin, a class X student…
UNB, Dhaka Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said trade must be given great importance to expedite economic activities of the countries around the world and implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Finance Minister was attending a discussion titled ‘Financing the SDGs’ at the UN headquarters, New York on Wednesday as part of programmes marking…
UNB, Dhaka Green activists here on Thursday demanded legal action against tannery owners if they fail to relocate their factories from the capital’s Hazaribagh to Savar within March 30 next, the latest deadline set by the government. Addressing a press conference, they asked the authorities concerned to cancel the plots allocated to tannery owners for…
Ahmad-ul Kabir Bangladesh High Commission posted the rules and regulations for illegal Banglaeshi workers to become re-registered in Malaysia on Facebook yesterday. Within 6 hours the post was shared more than 500 times. Over a 100 comments were filled with queries about the post. However, the High Commission did not reply to any comment. Phone…
UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called up on people to help the government to properly and speedily implement development projects in their respective areas. The Prime Minister came up with the call while inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of some 51 projects of various ministries through a videoconferencing from her official…
UNB, Dhaka Singapore has expressed its interest to hire skilled manpower from Bangladesh to meet its growing labour demand. Singapore Manpower Minister LIM Swee Say said this during a meeting with a Bangladesh delegation, led by Expatriates’ Welfare & Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc, in Singapore on Thursday. Swee Say said many foreign workers…