Daily O, India Government legislations are necessary, but things on the ground won’t change unless we as a society overcome our deep-seated transphobia. In a country fighting gender inequality, there is a huge section of people which has been pushed to social isolation because of our shared obsession of putting every human being into neat…
UNB Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) on Monday conducted a drive at DCC Market in the city’s Gulshan-1 area demolishing its extended part raised illegally. During the drive, led by a Rajuk magistrate, other illegal structures, signboards and billboards at the market were also removed. Inspector (investigation) of Gulshan Police Station Salahuddin Maih said the drive…
Reuters: Syrian government forces fired chlorine, a banned chemical weapon, on a rebel-held Damascus suburb and on Idlib province this year, in attacks that constitute war crimes, United Nations human rights investigators said on Wednesday. The three incidents bring to 39 the number of chemical attacks which the Commission of Inquiry on Syria has…
Hossen Sohel: Brazil re-opened its northern border with Venezuela to those fleeing economic and political turmoil there, after briefly closing it. The Supreme Court overturned an earlier order to shut the frontier until Brazil could put in place the right conditions to receive the huge influx of people, reports BBC. Authorities in the state of…
Sofian Khan: The new six dozen prospective parties pledge to register are mostly to be rejected by the Election Commission (EC) in the coming parliamentary election , said some EC officials. “It seems that the conditions for registering new parties have been difficult to meet,” Helaluddin Ahmed, EC Secretary said. “Some of the parties have…
Sofian Khan A decade after he swept to power in the Maldives’ first democratic elections, exiled opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed is again pushing for change by force if necessary as his island homeland spirals into crisis. Nasheed made history in 2008 when he defeated Maumoon Abdul Gayoom then Asia’s longest-serving leader after three decades of…
Forqan Uddin Ahmed 21 February is being observed globally as the International Mother Language Day. The decision was proclaimed at the 30th General Conference of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held from 26 October to 17 November 1999 in Paris. UNESCO considered the threat to linguistic diversity posed by the globalization…
A father is like a God in disguise. A father doesn’t show his love to his children. The person who taught us walks holding our fingers. All his life, he has been working for us. The person who loves us secretly and unconditionally. During the evening, this father was on a walk with his son…
Desk Report: The authorities yesterday suspended 11 Chittagong University students, belonging to Bangladesh Chhatra League, on various charges. Proctor Ali Asgar Chowdhury disclosed the decision at a press conference. Mahmudul Hasan Rupak of English department was suspended for one year for beating a journalist on September 10. Sabbir Hossain and Rajibul Alam of history department…