Kabir Humayun: A second-grader girl was violated by a septuagenarian in Gojanagar area in Nabinagar municipality of Brahmanbaria district on Friday. Kulsuma Begum, victim’s mother, filed a case with Nabinagar Police Station on the day of the incident, reports UNB. Till Sunday, police had still failed to arrest the main accused although they have detained…
Sofian Khan The US House of Representatives joined the Senate on Tuesday seeking to over US economic aid to Pakistan while the Trump administration has already suspended military aid.A bill introduced in the House said that non-defence aid to Pakistan should also end and the money set aside for this purpose should be invested in…
Hossen Sohel: The outgoing UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said Myanmar’s de-facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, should have resigned over the military’s violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. He told the BBC that the Nobel Peace prize winner’s attemps to excuse it were “deeply regrettable”. Hussein made the…
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-narcotics drive arrested 46 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs, reports Financial Express. A special team of DMP, comprising Detective Branch (DB) of police and other law officials, launched the drives in different places of the capital and seized 2,914 pieces…
Hindustan Times: Being a woman is tough in China — at least if you go by how men and women spend their day. Chinese women on average spend 2.1 hours a day on housework, roughly three times that of men, according to a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics conducted last year and published…
Sayeed Muhammad: A sports utility vehicle carrying Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal was hit by a city bus that was being driven by a helper at Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area. A bus of New Vision Paribahan hit the car in front of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in the area around 8.45pm on Friday, said…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized six kilograms of gunpowder from bordering Wahedpur area of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj yesterday morning. But no arrests was made in this connection. Lt Col Sajjad Sarwar, commanding officer of BGB-53 battalion of the paramilitary force, said a patrol team of the paramilitary force conducted…
DOT Desk: The government had evolved a tracker in order to monitor and analyse the statistical data and information related to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals and ensuring balanced allocation of its limited resources. The Access to Information programme under the Prime Minister’s Office had developed this tracker which will also be used for measuring…
AFP: A Belarusian model who sparked global intrigue after claiming she had evidence of Russian efforts to help Donald Trump win office pleaded not guilty Monday (Aug 20) to charges of running an illegal “sex training” class in Thailand. Anastasia Vashukevich, better known by her pen name Nastya Rybka, has been detained in Thailand since…
Kabir Humayun: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is facing “a direct existential threat” and must rapidly shift from dependence on fossil fuels by 2020 to prevent “runaway climate change.” The UN chief called the crisis urgent and decried the lack of global leadership to address global warming, Reports AP. “Climate change is…