Philippa Lysaght/UNICEF The role of water in conflicts around the world. When you think of the ways in which wars and conflicts are fought, water wouldn’t immediately come to mind, but in many conflicts, restricting or controlling the access to water can be used as a weapon. It has happened throughout history, across the globe….
Hossen Sohel of DOT A High Court bench yesterday refused to hear a writ petition challenging the legality of the schedule for the 11th parliamentary election slated for December 30, reports The Daily Star. The bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice Razik-Al Jalil also dropped the petition from the hearing list saying that…
UNB It took an 18-year-old local academy graduate making his professional debut as a late injury replacement to spare Manchester United from potential humiliation in the Europa League on Thursday.Many inside Old Trafford will have known little, if anything, about Marcus Rashford when the striker was called up against FC Midtjylland on Thursday after Anthony…
Utpal Dutta, Editorial Assistant, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : Enforced disappearance the other name of abduction without any evidences, traces predominantly persists from beginning this year. An atrocious activities, dreadful violation of human rights and even an international crime creates shocking scenario returns like previous years. In recent years, occurrences of enforced disappearance…
Ramzy Baroud/ Middle East Monitor The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran should pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful expulsion of Jews from Arab countries during the late 1940s. The events that Israel cites allegedly occurred at a time…
UNB An accused in a murder case was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Yearpur in Ashulia early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Babul Mia, 27, son of Babar Ali Munshi of Teknimunshipara in Sonatala upazila in Bagura district. He is an accused in garment worker Mehedi Hasan killing cases. Tipped off,…
A regional outlawed party leader was hacked to death by miscreants in Bhinnogram area of Santhia upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Al Amin Hossain, 35, son of Fazlal Miah, a resident of the area and a regional leader of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML- Lal Pataka). Abdur Razzak, officer-in-charge of Ataikula…
Md. Taqi Yasir On February 4th, the Higher Secondary Education Directorate announced a new order to penalize the teachers and students who will be on narcotics. This may actually create many imbalances in the check and balance system due to the lack of proper monitoring in the filtering process according to many experts. The reasons…