Gautam Bhatia, Advocate in the Supreme Court/Hindustan Times it is questionable whether a punishment based solely on retribution has any place in a society that prides itself on being civilised Last month, in his final judgment before retiring, Supreme Court Justice Kurien Joseph observed that the time had perhaps come to reconsider the place of…
Desk Report At least 15 people were hurt during an attack on an election campaign of opposition Jatiya Oikyafront in Chattogram’s Fatickchhari yesterday, reports The Daily Star. The injured include Oikyafront’s candidate for the constituency Azim Ullah Bahar and his associates, our local staff correspondent reports. Bahar alleged, Chhatra League men known as ‘Tayeb Bahini’…
DOT Desk The government has taken a move to approve a compliance protocol namely ‘escalation protocol’ to bring the readymade garment factories, which are not responding to the remediation process, under regulation, reports The New Age. Earlier, International Labour Organisation drafted an escalation protocol for the factories assessed under national initiative and all the parties…
Banglanews24 Eminent Dhallywood filmmaker Amjad Hossain was laid to eternal rest beside his parents at the central graveyard in his hometown Jamalpur Sunday (Dec 23). A namaj-e-janaja was held on Iqbalpur New High School Field in the town, around 11pm. The ‘Golapi Ekhon Train-e’ famed director breathed his last at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok…
DOT Desk The visiting Grand Mufti of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Mohammed Ahmed Hossain, paid a courtesy call on Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan at the latter’s house in the city on Saturday night, reports The Daily Sun. During the meeting, the Grand Mufti was accompanied by Palestinian Ambassador Yousef SY Ramadan and diplomats and…
Science Alert From the Neolithic to present times, the amount of sunlight we see in a day has had a profound impact on human culture. We are fast approaching the winter solstice for the Northern hemisphere, which takes place on December 21. This is the longest night of the year – once celebrated as “Yule”…
DOT Desk A mentally challenged widow has allegedly been gang raped by miscreants at Kharinchi village of Manirampur upazila, reports The Daily Observer. A case was filed against four local youths with Manirampur Police Station on Friday night over the incident that took place on Wednesday evening. According to the case statement, the victim was…
BDnews24 Bangladesh is “disheartened” by the US State Department’s statement concerning observers for its upcoming general election, the foreign ministry has said. In a statement issued on Sunday, the ministry said, “as one ofthe largest democracies in the world and mutually respectful to others, Bangladesh would “expect and welcome constructive statements towards its democratic process…
DOT Desk The country’s total tree coverage will increase to around 24 percent by 2022 from the existing 22 percent as the government is implementing different programmes to achieve the goal, a top government official said, reports The Daily Sun. “We’ve taken all sorts of steps to expand the total forest land under an initiative…
DOT Desk Narail-2 Awami League candidate Mashrafe Bin Mortaza on Sunday urged all to keep vigilant so that his rivals do not get hurt in anyway….emotionally or physically, reports Observer BD. Mortaza, also the Bangladesh cricket team captain, came up with the request at a view exchange meeting with the lawyers at the hall room…