UNB: Branding the Digital Security Bill 2018’ as an ‘evil spirit of Baksal’, BNP yesterday alleged that the government has enacted the law to hide its ‘massive corruption’ and gag the media and people’s voice. Speaking at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi also called…
Daily Our Time is presenting below two case studies of sexual abuse of two boys, one aged 10 years and the other is of 9 years old. Both of them are from rural areas. In both the incidents, the perpetrator is same and the incidents describe how the victims have been abused by a so…
M Humayun Kabir: Aid workers rushed to vaccinate Rohingya refugees against measles earlier this year. Soon after the initiative, rumours swirled through the overcrowded camps in Bangladesh that the injections would make women sterile and convert children into Christians, reports Reuters. In response, humanitarians are trying innovative projects to counter rumours – translated as “flying…
Independent, UK: China is installing QR codes on the homes of the Uighur Muslim community in order to get instant access to the personal details of people living there, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The development comes as part of a mass security crackdown on minorities in Xinjiang province, the charity…
Sejuti Mourin: Supreme Court (SC) yesterday upheld the stay order against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail in two cases of vandalism and murder filed in Cumilla. The SC also directed the state to appeal regularly. The Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, fixed June 24 for the next hearing. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam…
Desk Report: Good news for the fans of popular band Miles. The band members have resolved their differences as its lead vocal and bass guitarist Shafin Ahmed has returned to the troupe. The band will be seen with the same lineup as it was before in future. The band is all set to start practice…
Abrar Hussain: UN High Commis-sioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein yesterday urged Bangladesh for greater engagement with respect to human rights, reports The Daily Star. “I encourage greater engagement, particularly with respect to concerns about the shrinking space for civil society, and allegations of extrajudicial actions by the security forces,” he said during…
Last Thursday, a video was posted in a twitter account which was faint of heart. A maid, woman was hanging from a window on seventh floor of a building was in a short clip. Instead of helping her, the woman was filming as the viewer watched. A news service in Kuwait said that that post…
Sofian Khan: Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has announced of a new abortion law which will be in place by the end of 2018. It is followed by a landslide vote in favour of repealing the Republic of Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion. With the new law in place, abortions during the first 12 weeks…
DOT Desk Farmers are deflated by the drop in paddy prices, which will leave them with hardly any profit from the current bumper aman harvests. Aman is the second biggest crop out of the three rice crops produced by growers in a year, accounting roughly for 38 percent of the total production, reports the Daily…