Syed Manzoorul Islam, Academic and Writer: omestic awareness has to be raised if drug-addicted students are to be brought back to schools and colleges. Offspring should have sound and healthy relationships with their parents. It is a sad reality that corrupt households will have adverse impact on the growth of its children. When the father…
Ovi Moinuddin Popular Bengali dramas and TV serials actress Nazia Haque Orsha was away from acting due to illness and shifting her residence. She was supposed to bring to an end of her self-imposed exile though acting in a TV drama. But there was a problem with Orsha’s schedule. She reacted, “If there is any…
UNB: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the proposed Road Transport Act will bring discipline in the transport sector as the act kept a provision of harsher punishment according to the gravity of accident. “People are dying like birds and flies. Once the act gets passed the sector will come under…
Arab News: Iran’s labor minister was fired on Wednesday as the fall-out grew over the country’s economic meltdown in the face of new US sanctions. Ali Rabiei, a close political ally of President Hassan Rouhani, lost a parliamentary motion calling for his removal from office by 129 votes to 111. The Iranian economy is beset…
Sabah Mannan: A Dhaka court yesterday extended bail for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case till June 28. The order was passed by Dhaka-5 Special Judge Court’s Judge Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman who also withdrew a production warrant issued against Khaleda, reports The Independent. Khaleda’s lawyer Sanaullah Miah said she could not appear…
Daily Sabah: The Türkiye Diyanet Founda tion (TDV), the charity agency of Turkey’s top religious body, will help some 10 million people around the world this Qurban Bayram (known as Eid al-Adha in Arabic) that begins on Aug. 21. Run by the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), the TDV will slaughter sacrificial animals and deliver the…
Dr. Ridwanul Hoque writes for DOT : Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Myanmar should disband its commission of inquiry into abuses in Rakhine state because it is clearly unwilling to seriously investigate alleged grave crimes against ethnic Rohingya. At a news conference on December 12, 2018, Rosario Manalo, chair of the Independent Commission of…
UNB: Knowledge Industry (KI) and Safety and Rights Society (SRS) on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to investigate workplace deaths across the country, and help the victims’ families realise compensation. KI Managing Director Mahamudul Haque and SRS Executive Director Sekendar Ali Mina inked the deal at SRS office in the capital’s Mohammadpur area….
Kabir Humayun: Amid the ongoing student movement demanding safety on roads, a motorcyclist was run over by a bus in city’s Moghbazar area yesterday afternoon. Angered by the accident, a mob torched the killer bus, reports Observer. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam Rana, 23, hailed from Swarupkathi upazila of Pirojpur.Rana worked at Moghbazar…
Sumaiya Kabir The Rampal Power Plant, a proposed coal based power plant dangerously close to the Sunderbans, has been fiercely opposed ever since the agreement to build it was signed in 2012. Although the proposed 1320 megawatt power plant will produce electricity using coal, an affordable and abundant energy source, the consequences of building the…