AP: A human rights group urged Bangladesh’s government on Monday to abandon plans to relocate Rohingya Muslim refugees to a small, uninhabited island said to be at severe risk of serious flooding. Human Rights Watch said in a report released in Bangkok, Thailand, that international experts have identified six sites near the existing camp housing…
Sayeed Muhammad One worker was killed and her eight colleagues sustained burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded in a cosmetic factory at Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.The deceased is Shefali Akter, 30, wife of Abdul Manna hailing from Polashtoli area in the upazila. However, the injured could not be identified immediately.Sources said the accident took…
Geo TV: Venezuela´s self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido called Sunday for two new protests, in an effort to push the military to turn against leader Nicolas Maduro and back a European ultimatum demanding free elections within the week. In a video posted on Twitter, the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly said the first of the…
AP, Temecula The U.S. Department of Defense says a coalition service member killed Saturday by enemy fire in northern Iraq was a Marine from Southern California. Officials say in a press release Sunday that Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, of Temecula, died March 19 from wounds suffered when his unit was hit by rocket fire….
Jawed Naqvi, Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi/ Dawn, Pakistan INDIAN actor Naseeruddin Shah was trolled and threatened last week for expressing a reasoned view that religious intolerance and growing mob violence posed a mortal threat to the secular state. Naseer’s is a mixed marriage like several other actors and ordinary folk. Like him, his Hindu wife…
AP, Warsaw Poland’s president said Sunday that he had held very good talks with U.S. senators about the security situation in Central and Eastern Europe, before a NATO summit that Poland will host in July. Andrzej Duda said that the five members of the U.S. Senate’s Intelligence Committee were “not interested in” and didn’t…
Written by: Eshan Maitra Outdated House Rent Control Law – 1991, proving to be very much ineffective in protecting consumer rights, believes Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB). Most do not even know about this law exist. Again, there isn’t any rules against the violation of its codes. High Court even instructed to create a commission…
DOT Desk: Newly-appoin- ted finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has asked National Board of Revenue to review the country’s existing income tax rates for corporate and individual taxpayers to make them ‘balanced’ and ‘rationalised’ with a view to boost revenue mobilisation, expand tax net and attract investment, reports The New Age. He also instructed the…
Vincent Dolman/ Scroll.in, India Vincent Dolman spotted the gesture on a visit to India and found it to be delightfully unconventional. A surprising cultural norm prevails in India: Men here like to hold hands. Though masculinity is rigidly defined and homophobia rampant in the country, the practice is so common that it is rarely noticed….
Reported by: Jafar Ahmad Written by: Eshan Maitra Former Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed shared his deep concern & insights about current banking sector. In a recent interview with the Amader Orthoneeti.Dr. Salehuddin criticized the current authorities for giving too many opportunities to save ‘massacred’ banking sector. During his time, only 3-term rescheduling was…