World Drowning Prevention Day today
World Drowning Prevention Day is going to be observed today in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world...
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Popular Life wins prize for drug abuse prevention initiatives
Popular Life Insurance Company Limited on Thursday won the first prize for its initiatives against drug abuse, said a press release...
SEB hosts awareness prog on money laundering prevention
Southeast Bank PLC recently organised an awareness programme on 鈥楻egulatory Framework for Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing鈥� at the bank鈥檚 training institute in Dhaka, said a press release...
MetLife hosts training on money laundering prevention
MetLife Bangladesh has recently organised a daylong training workshop on 鈥楶revention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing鈥� for branch managers and unit managers of MetLife鈥檚 Chattogram region, said a press release...
21 sued for beating girls on launch in Munshiganj
The police on Sunday filed a case against 21 people with Munshiganj Sadar police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act allegedly for beating two girls in a launch anchored at Munshiganj launch terminal on Friday...
Solution or just another law?
FOR a country where land is not only a resource but also is a source of legal disputes or social conflicts, a law to address the conflicts or to bring order to this chaotic landscape is necessary. It is a popular idea that land law is considered a branch of civil law. Gradually this idea is changing to address the disputes and crimes related to lands. However, a new law...
MBPLC hosts training on money laundering prevention
Mercantile Bank PLC has organised a training programme on 鈥楶revention of money laundering and combating financing against terrorism鈥� for officials of Chattaogram, Feni, Noakhali and Cumilla regions, said a press release...
Four charged with Magura girl rape, murder
The Magura Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on Wednesday framed charges against four individuals accused of the death of an 8-year-old girl after rape in the district in early March this year...
Early and effective dengue prevention a must
A SIGNIFICANT number of hospital admission for dengue fever,聽a mosquito-borne viral infection, in three months warrants that the government should step up its effort to prevent an outbreak. The death toll from the disease has increased to 14 and the number of cases 1,954 since January. In 2024, dengue left 22 people dead and 1,747 others were admitted to in the...
Rights bodies for widening rape definition
The Rape Law Reform Coalition, a combine of 17 legal and rights organisations, on Wednesday suggested that amendments to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act-2000 should introduce a broader legal definition of rape to include all individuals to curb incidents of rape and violence against women...
Suspended SP assaults journalists on Natore court premises
Suspended superintendent of police SM Fazlul Haque assaulted several video journalists on the premises of a Natore court on Tuesday...
Selection that search committee makes should be transparent
A MAJOR reason that holds back the Anti-Corruption Commission from functioning independently, as stakeholders think, is the appointment of the top three officials 鈥� the chair and two commissioners 鈥� often picked up from among retired bureaucrats, close to the ruling quarters, who mostly protect partisan interests. Bureaucrats in service are also appointed on deputation to the positions of the commission鈥檚...
Comprehensive, scientific dengue prevention plan needed
THE dengue outbreak, with at least 82,120 cases of hospital admission and 422 deaths from dengue, is worsening by the day as the government is yet to develop an effective mechanism to trace source vector mosquitoes and prevent further spread of the virus. Entomologists and virologists consider source detection, the spots from where the...
Two arrested over rape of Marma girl in Bandarban
Two men were arrested early Friday in a case filed over raping a 15-year-old girl from the Marma community of Baishari union under Naikhyangchari upazila in...
Ex-minister Narayan sued for abduction
A case was filed recently against former land minister Narayan Chandra Chanda for abducting two women in Khulna...
Effective dengue prevention steps demanded
The Socialist Party of Bangladesh on Thursday submitted a memorandum with seven demands, including effective measures for dengue prevention, to the administrator of the Dhaka South City Corporation...
Govt should dive into dengue prevention job without delay
THE average daily hospital admission of patients with dengue, which in the first six days in September doubled the number in the corresponding days of August, suggests a potentially threatening outbreak of the disease and a general failure of the health and local government authorities concerned to control the dengue vector during the...
Trial of Prof Yunus in graft case deferred to August 5
Dhaka Special Judge鈥檚 Court-4 on Monday deferred recording the testimony of prosecution witnesses till August 5th in a case filed against Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and 13 others under the Money Laundering Prevention Act...
MIU holds seminar on child rights, prevention of sexual abuse
A seminar on child rights, sexual abuse, trafficking and protection was held at the conference room of the Manarat International University in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan on Sunday...
Special public fund for cancer prevention, treatment sought
Public health activists and physicians at a conference on Friday urged the government to create a special fund for cancer prevention and treatment to help poor people to fight the disease...
HC bans PP from courts for defaming magistrate
The High Court on Tuesday banned a government law officer from appearing in courts for 20 days for making contemptuous remarks on social media against a judicial officer following an altercation in courtroom...
Implementing dengue prevention plan
IT IS possible to get the desired results only if we can find out the real reasons behind the spread of dengue in the past decades. A plan must be formulated, considering as many risk factors as there are...
Sexual harassment cases must be resolved early
SURVIVORS of sexual harassment on the University of Dhaka campus during Pahela Boishakh celebrations in 2016 still await justice as the case remains stuck in legal bureaucracy. On January 31, a Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Tribunal had to...
Sexual assault survivors see no end in 9 yrs鈥� wait for justice
The survivors of sexual assault during the Pahela Baishaikh celebration on the Dhaka University Campus nine years ago still wait for justice as the case against a lone accused over the sexual assault remains pending with...
Court finds no flaws in probe
A Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal said that multiple investigation agencies properly and extensively investigated the case filed on the charges of rape and murder of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia...