Tanzim Taqrim Survivors of prison sexual assault wrote Christmas cards to currently incarcerated victims. Family, Friends and volunteers joined from across the U.S. The annual Words of Hope campaign is organized by Just Detention International, a non-profit organization that advocates for incarcerated rape victims. Every year JDI sends 700 inmates a bundle of letters each….
Nusrat Jahan Inspecting 30 years of health studies, Vici Freedman and his colleagues from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, found that 85-year-old men can now hope to have an average of four more years of a generally solid life – more than the average of only two in 1982.What about women? 81 is the…
Reported by: Ismael Hussain Imu Written by : Tanzim Taqrim Arnob AIG (Intelligence and Special Affairs) of Police Moniruzzaman on Wednesday highlighted the position of militancy in Bangladesh and regional context. A regional platform will be developed to curb terrorism and militancy. He said this at a two-day workshop that began in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur…
Hindustan Times, India: Some 3,000 pieces of military equipment including guns, swords and grenades believed to date back to World War II have been found buried at a Tokyo elementary school, officials said Monday. Construction workers found the weapons last month when they excavated the grounds of Tanashi Elementary School in the city of Nishitokyo…
Arafat Hasan: Kim Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in visited the spiritual birthplace of the Korean nation yesterday in a display of unity after their North-South summit gave new momentum to Pyongyang’s negotiations with Washington. The North Korean leader on Wednesday agreed to scrap the Tongchang-ri missile-testing site in presence of international observers, a move…
BBC: A former South Korean governor and one-time presidential contender has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for rape, five months after he was controversially acquitted for the same crime. Ahn Hee-jung was jailed by an appeals court Friday for the rape and assault of Kim Ji-eun, his former assistant, Kim’s…
UNB Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a young man along with 488 pieces of Yaba tablets from Natunhatpara Shishatala village in Sadar upazila on Sunday. In a press release, Rab-5 said on a tip off, a team of the elite force conducted a drive in the area and arrested Humayun, 25, son of…
Abrar Hussain: Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, Member of CPD Board of Trustees, on behalf of CPD gave an opinion on the proposed budget for the Fiscal Year 2018-19 yesterday at a press conference. According to Debapriya, many of the current fundamental policies and economic trends present in previous budgets have been represented in the new budget….
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed writes for DOT All present there are 80 prison cells in Bangladesh. Among them, there are 4 central jails, 30 district prisons, 27 sub-jails and 16 thana jails. About fifty thousand prisoners are accommodated in these jails but in reality the number is over one lac. All prisoners are not guilty…