The Guardian, UK Two South African men accused of cannibalism were given life sentences for murder on Wednesday, with the judge saying they were guilty of “the most heinous crime”. Judge Peter Olsen sentenced Nino Mbatha, 33, and Lungisani Magubane, 32, to life in prison for the killing last year of Zanele Hlatshwayo, the Witness…
NextShark A cafe with an all-robot staff controlled by paralyzed people has opened in Tokyo. The cafe, called Dawn ver.β, held its ribbon cutting ceremony on Nov. 26. Ten people with conditions like ALS and other spinal cord injuries are currently employed at Dawn, according to Sankei. From home, they operate the OriHime-D, a 120-centimeter…
Abrar Hussain of DOT Julian Assange has accused his Ecuadorean hosts of spying and feeding information to US authorities, and termed the attempts to block his journalistic work as a more subtle way of silencing than the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Suggesting there were “facts of espionage” inside the embassy, the WikiLeaks co-founder expressed concern…
Barrister Al Amin Rahman writes for DOT Violence against Women is a widespread and dangerous phenomenon in Bangladesh. It remains a main social problem in contemporary Bangladesh. Inhuman attacks on women have become common and widespread across the country. The rate of reported violent acts against women has risen steadily and at an alarming rate….
Raj Abrar of DOT Awami League President Sheikh Hasina urged all citizens to cast vote for her party in order to ensure a hunger and poverty-free Bangladesh. “Every vote is valuable and your one vote will help us form the government for the continuation of the country’s development,” she said while addressing a rally at…
Reuters A near-record number of journalists around the world are behind bars for their work, including two Reuters reporters whose imprisonment in Myanmar has drawn international criticism, according to a report released on Thursday. There were 251 journalists jailed for doing their jobs as of Dec. 1, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in an…
UHossen Sohel of DOT: Like each year, the United Nations General Assembly has unanimously adopted Bangladesh’s flagship resolution on the ‘Culture of Peace’, reports UNB. Chargé d’ Affaires and Deputy Permanent Representative (DPR) of Bangladesh Permanent Mission to UN Tareq Md Ariful Islam floated the proposal yesterday. “Over the years Bangladesh remained committed to the…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT According to quarterly human rights analysis report, published by Human Right Support Society, between July and September of 2018, at least 121 people were extra-judicially killed most of the cases due to anti-drug drive. 117 were killed in the name of ‘crossfire/ gunfights’, 2 tortured to death and 2 died…
CNN : Nine people were killed and nearly 50 injured in Turkey when a high speed train collided with a locomotive and crashed into a station platform and overpass in an Ankara suburb early on Thursday, officials said. Rescuers worked to free people trapped under the mangled wreckage at Marsandiz train station, 8 km (5…
Syed Hasan Imam speaks to DOT The murder of our intellectuals is a permanent scar. The damage that was done to our country on December 14 of 1971 left an eternal void. The Pakistanis thought that by murdering our intellectuals and talented, they would send us back into a dark age. But they couldn’t fulfill…