Syed Mahfujul Haque Marjan, Faculty Member of Criminology, University of Dhaka: The Criminal Justice system controls and prevents crime. It enforces penalty for not obeying the law. It includes courts, law enforcement and correction system. If a person commits crime, he or she has to go through these stages. Violation of the natural process of…
M Humayun Kabir: Rejecting the government’s decision to raise their minimum monthly wage to Tk 8,000, the workers of ready-made garment factories staged demonstration in Dhaka yesterday. During the demo, they demanded a minimum monthly wage Tk 16,000 instead of Tk 8,000 for the 4.4 million garment workers. Several hundred workers led by Garments Sramik…
Desk Report: As traffic police continue to check fitness certificates of vehicles and other documents, many bus owners still refrain from running their vehicles on the streets in the capital, causing immense sufferings for the commuters, reports Daily Sun. Besides, CNG-run auto-rickshaws drivers are charging passengers extra fares, cashing in on the shortage of vehicles…
DOT Desk: Although Mayda Government Primary School under Amragachhia union in Mirzaganj upazila was established in 1940, the institution is facing serious student crisis, reports The Daily Star. During a visit to the school on January 12 this correspondent found only three students were present in the school, but the school head teacher Farida Yesmin…
AFP: Kenya and Tanzania tomorrow mark 20 years since the devastating US embassy bombings that thrust Al-Qaeda onto the global stage and went on to shape how a generation thinks about personal security. It was mid-morning on August 7, 1998, when the first massive blast hit the US embassy in downtown Nairobi, followed minutes later by…
Samiul Bashar Samin These days, it’s really difficult to find managers and players who are in it for the passion of the game rather than the huge amount of money involved. No matter which team you support, it is impossible for you to not love Jurgen Klopp. The charismatic manager took over the Barclays Premiere…
AFP: Japan Friday launched an unprecedented probe into gender discrimination at all the nation’s medical universities after a Tokyo medical school admitted altering the entrance test results of female applicants to exclude them. The education ministry has asked all 81 private and public medical schools to check their admission procedures for possible discrimination against female…
Hossen Sohel: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wanted to produce a “big outcome” as he began three days of summit talks yesterday with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in aimed at rekindling stalled nuclear diplomacy, reports Reuters. The two leaders began official talks on Tuesday afternoon, after parading down the streets of Pyongyang…
Redwan Ahmed CNG-run auto-rickshaw owner and workers’ unions of Dhaka and Chittagong have called a strike to pressurize the policy makers to comply with their eight-point demands that include imposing ban on app-based ride services like Uber and Pathao.The auto-rickshaw drivers, locally known as “CNG drivers”, will hold the strike on 27 and 28 November…
DOT Desk: The country’s manpower export may experience further fall in the coming years due to poor demand for less-skilled workers in major markets, experts and sector insiders have predicted, calling for urgent measures to develop skilled manpower, reports The Financial Express. They suggested formulating a long-term policy with restructuring the education and training systems…