Adv Zahid Ahmed Hero Maintenance means provisions for fooding, lodging and other essential for the livelihood. Duty to maintain is an obligation under which a person is legally bound to provide fooding, lodging, clothing etc to another person. The advent of Islam has ordained that marriage imposes an obligation on the husband…
Dhaka, UNB Having strongly condemned the terror attacks in Brussels as a brutal assault on democracy and core human values, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on Wednesday called for a wide range of actions to counter the growing global threat of terrorism. In a resolution on peace and international security adopted at the conclusion of the…
Memo: Standing next to a secretive Israeli atomic reactor earlier in the week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to “wipe out” his enemies. In a speech that many will see as the Jewish state breaking its long silence over the possession of nuclear weapons, the Likud leader warned that it has the means to destroy…
CNN: A New Zealand lawmaker made her own way to a hospital to have her baby, covering the kilometers from her suburban home to a maternity ward on a bicycle. The move neatly ties together Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter’s roles as Minister for Woman and Associate Minister for Transport and for Health. Genter,…
Desk Report: Another school student lost her life in a hit-and-run accident in Shakhipur upazila, Tangail Friday morning, reports the Dhaka tribune. Sadia Jahan, 15, was crossing the road at Beltoli Bazar in Shakhipur’s Kalia union around 9:30am when a pick-up truck struck her from behind and ran over her. She was rushed to Shakhipur…
UNB: A five-member team of adolescent girls and boys will take part in the international robotics competition titled ‘First Global Challenge’ to be held in Mexico City, capital of Mexico from August 15 to 18. The team will leave here on Sunday to join the event where adolescents from 182 countries are going to participate….
Michael Hambrick, Founder, The Ate Truths/Thrive Global, California In the blink of an eye… For the second time in three weeks, we’re dealing with a loss in the family. Hopefully this is the last time I have to write about death for a while, but it is, after all, one of the only two things…
Raj Abrar: The Jatiya Sangsad budget session for 2018-19 Fiscal Year will commence on June 5, the last budget of the incumbent Awami League government. The parliament will go into session at 11:00 am on that day with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury in chair. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith is exprected place the budget proposal…
Desk Report: A schoolteacher has been suspended for ‘sexually harassing’ a female student in Panchagarh while a girl ‘gang raped’ in Sherpur and a schoolboy arrested in Sylhet for allegedly violating a schoolgirl, demonstrating that the vulnerabilities of girls are growing across the country. According to reports reaching the UNB news desk, an assistant teacher…
Hossen Sohel: Pakistan’s military is using fear and intimidation to stifle the media and undermine press freedom even as overall violence against reporters has fallen, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said yesterday.The press freedom group said the military had established “lines of control” to pressure the media and journalists who pushed back or were…