The Guardian, UK: The number of children put on to local authority care plans because their parents have been accused of emotional abuse has soared over the past decade, research has found, amid warnings that some families are being broken up without justification. Analysis of national care statistics shows that the use of “emotional abuse”…
M Humayun Kabir: The gravity of the UN report on human rights violations in Myanmar warrants the attention of both the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Security Council, said Mark Field, British Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific. “We will discuss options for bringing the report before the Security Council with…
DOT Desk: Housewife Shirina Begum, who set an example of producing bumper crops, especially vegetables, on a small land, has now become a role model for many female growers at her native Maynakuti village in Rangpur Sadar upazila, reports The Daily Star. Seeing her success, around 120 women of the village are now engaged in…
Independent.UK: Watery worlds could be common throughout the universe, scientists have said in a discovery that could have major effects on the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Planets covered in large amounts of water could be far more common than we’d previously realised, according to the new study. By exploring the known masses of…
UNB, Dhaka President Abdul Hamid on Sunday said corruption could be a major obstacle to the socio-economic progress of a country and public awareness can help check it. He made the observation when outgoing Chairman of then Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) M Bodiuzzaman and Commissioner M Shahabuddin made a courtesy call on him at Bangabhaban….
Reported by: Jannatul Ferdous Panna Written by: Eshan Maitra Dudok Chairman Iqbal Mahmud warned every corrupted government-employees that, Dudok intelligence will be invisible deliverer of justice. Dudok has created a separate intelligence and it is already fortified within all the major public service institutions. Including, top public administrations & ministries. These intelligence detectives are geared…
Afrida Ahmed Myanmar will take back only those Rohingyas who escaped to Bangladesh after the violence on Oct 9, 2016 and Aug 25 2017. On Saturday, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali informed the media about his recent to Myanmar and said that a Rohingya repatriation agreement has been signed with the Southeast Asian nation on…
Tech Explorist Monday, December 3rd was a big day for Astrocast. Evening at 7:34 pm Swiss time, Astrocast – a young start-up spun out of EPFL – launched its first demonstration satellite intended to test its Internet-of-Things system. The launch, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, went smoothly. The rocket was carrying…
The Guardian, UK: Women will be forced to quit their jobs to look after ill or ageing relatives if the supply of EU care workers is severed after Brexit, the Department of Health has warned. In a worst-case scenario, there could be 28,000 fewer workers in the care sector in England five years after leaving…