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15 journalists win UNICEF Meena Media Awards
Fifteen Bangladeshi journalists have won the UNICEF Meena Media Awards 2023 for their outstanding reporting on children’s rights...
HC asks govt, NHRC to frame guidelines
The High Court on Monday asked the government authorities to explain in four weeks why Section 19 (b) of the Guardian and Ward Act, 1890 that allows the father only as the guardian of a minor child would not be declared as unconstitutional being ‘discriminatory’...
Increasingly hot European summers harming health: report
Heat stress in Europe is increasingly threatening people’s health as global warming makes summers there hotter and deadlier, two leading climate monitors warned on Monday...
Iran, Israel appear to pull back from brink of war
Iran has dismissed as akin to child’s play the reported Israeli retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides on Saturday appeared to...
North Korea tests ‘super-large warhead’, says state media
North Korea has tested a ‘super-large warhead’ designed for a strategic cruise missile, state media said on Saturday, the most recent test since UN sanctions monitoring against the nuclear-armed nation was upended last month by Russia............
Palestinian woman with dead niece image wins World Press Photo award
A haunting image of a grieving Palestinian woman embracing her little niece, killed in an Israeli strike in war-torn Gaza, won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award Thursday...
Caught in a quagmire
EVEN in the post-Covid period, the Bangladeshi economy was going to take a turn-around, with macroeconomic indicators posting positive signals. However, the Russia-Ukraine war began to cast a gloom by disrupting...
Govt should recognise April 10 as republic day
THE demand for April 10 to be recognised and observed as republic day merits a serious government consideration. Almost all political parties in the opposition, many civic groups, historians and intellectuals have on different occasions..
Liberation DocFest Bangladesh begins
A five-day film festival, titled 12th Liberation DocFest Bangladesh, featuring works by local and foreign filmmakers began at the Liberation War Museum in...
Palestinian woman with dead niece image wins World Press Photo award
A haunting image of a grieving Palestinian woman embracing her little niece, killed in an Israeli strike in war-torn Gaza, won the 2024 World Press Photo of the...
Monowarul Hoque dies
Md Monowarul Hoque, a founding director of ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·, died at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday...
Two dozen killed in Darfur town as war spreads
Clashes between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary have killed at least 25 civilians in the North Darfur town of El-Fasher, a pro-democracy lawyers committee said on Tuesday...
Declaring April 10 as Republic Day demanded
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD on Wednesday placed six demands, including declaring April 10 as Republic Day since Bangladesh’s Proclamation of Independence was adopted on this day in 1971, to run the country in the spirit of liberation war...
Secret agreements
WHILE the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood even as it denies supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with...
Syrian ex-general faces war crimes charges in Swedish court
The highest-ranking Syrian military official to be tried in Europe will appear in a Stockholm court on Monday for his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 during civil war in Syria. ...
US war against Yemen heats up
THE US war against Yemen is slowly but surely heating up. With more and bigger bombs the US is doing the only thing it knows how when what it is doing isn’t working, something even Genocide Joe Biden has admitted...
The real target is China
THE occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and British counterparts. Official statements about the AUKUS security pact between...
Bangladesh’s multi-layered roots of state
THE Bangladesh state in 1971 is complex in its functional identity as it was a state in occupation fighting for liberation. The state formation process followed unorthodox routes, incorporating both formal and informal realities in separate and...
Dying rivers in independent Bangladesh
DURING the liberation war, people of this land chanted, ‘[The River] Padma, Meghna, Jamuna is our destiny (Padma, Meghna, Jamnuna, tomar amar thikana’). Bangladesh — the birth of the nation...
50 years should be given for probe if needed: LM
Law Minister Anisul Huq said on Thursday that a probe should be granted 50 years, if necessary, in order to identify the perpetrators in the case filed over the killings of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012...
Israel’s war on aid workers in Gaza
EULOGIES should rarely be taken at face value. Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute into golden virtues. But there was little in the way...
Owners ignore regulations, RAJUK is an infirm institution
A total of 46 persons were killed in a fire that raged through a building on Bailey Road. Could this accident have been avoided?