Reuters: Three Congo Republic peacekeepers were given sentences of just three years in jail for murdering civilians and are now already free, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, describing the sentences as inadequate and unlikely to discourage future abuse. A court in the Congolese capital Brazzaville sentenced each of the soldiers in April for the…
BSS Salma Aktar, a class-five student, was married off at the age of only 12. She became a mother within one year of her marriage with Kamal Mia, a drug addict. Salma’s miseries intensified further when she had an abortion. With a stigma of not giving birth to a child, Salma at last took shelter…
DOT Desk: The inaugural ceremony of the group art exhibition titled, Guru-Shishsho: Shishsho- Guru (Preceptor-Disciple: Disciple-Preceptor) is all set commenced yesterday at 5:30 pm at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, reports The Daily Star BD. Portraits of towering cultural personalities like Tagore, Nazrul, and the contemporary socio-political and cultural features can also be observed…
AP: Another Saudi woman has turned to social media for protection from her father, just days after Canada granted refuge to Rahaf al-Qunun, the 18-year-old Saudi who fled her family. Identified only as Nojoud al-Mandeel on Twitter, her case differs from that of al-Qunun. She has not fled the kingdom, has not revealed her face…
Masable:In the tiny hours of Tuesday morning, SpaceX launched an Indonesian satellite in its 15th flight this year. It’s also the first re-flight of the company’s new, recyclable Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, which had its first launch back in May. Launching at 1:18 a.m. ET, the flight carried communications satellite Merah Putih, which is…
Reported by: Hasan Arif Written by: Eshan Maitra 81% of the revenue from the gas price increase suppose add to the government’s treasury & aid the budget. But, it is halted again for the second time. This is going to be a big bump in implementing the budget, worries Finance Minister Abul Mal Muhit. Bangladesh…
UNB, Dhaka Shougat Nazbin Khan, a young education advocate from Bangladesh, has received the Commonwealth Youth Awards for excellence in development work. She was one of four outstanding young people aged under 30 recognised in the 2016 Commonwealth Youth Awards and named as Commonwealth Young Person of the Year for Asia, Shougat Nazbin told…
M Humayun Kabir: Citizens yesterday formed a human chain in Dhaka demanding the release of noted photographer Shahidul Alam and students who have been detained in connection to student movements for quota reform and safe roads. Family members of the detained students and human rights activists formed the human chain in front of Jatiya Press…
Daily Mail, UK: The US will urge the international community to keep up sanctions pressure against North Korea at a security forum in Singapore this week, as concerns mount that Pyongyang has made little progress towards denuclearisation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his North Korean counterpart will attend the gathering in the city-state where…
Science Alert: You step off the plane, having travelled across the world to the opposite hemisphere. The seasons are all backwards, and when you look up at the full Moon, you realise it’s not even the right way up! Not only is this incredibly weird (mostly because, how did we not realise this before?), but…