Reuters Government and rebel forces in South Sudan abducted hundreds of women and girls this year and many have been raped and forced into sexual slavery, the U.N. mission to the country said on Tuesday. Other young people were forced to become child soldiers, according to ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader Yesterday described the seven-point demand of newly formed Jatiya Oikyafront as ‘seven conspiracies’ to thwart the forthcoming parliamentary election. “Oikyafront’s seven demands are seven conspir ...বিস্তারিত
AP An Afghan official says hundreds of villagers have blocked a major highway in eastern Nangarhar province to denounce the killings of civilians during an ongoing military operation against militants there. Wednesday’s rally is taking place on the road linking the provi ...বিস্তারিত
AFP The size and shape of women's birth canals vary depending on what part of the world they live in but most medical textbooks are based on a European body type, scientists said Wednesday, warning of health risks. Differences in the depth and width of the pelvic canal det ...বিস্তারিত
NDTV Rebecca Witzofsky, a 20-year-old deaf student at Gallaudet University in Washington, and her hearing friend Nikolas Carapellatti wanted to get a coffee. But on Tuesday, Witzofsky finally didn't have to struggle to make her order understood. US coffee giant Starbucks ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT A Japanese freelance journalist held hostage by militants in northern Syria for three years has been released and has confirmed he is safe and well and may be brought back home soon. In a video sent from the Turkish border, Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-o ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters Bulgaria’s government survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday brought by the opposition Socialists who accused it of failing to overhaul the ailing healthcare sector. The Socialists said the government, which has been in office since May 2017, had not tackled ...বিস্তারিত
MEMO Iraq’s Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr today rejected a secret vote in parliament on the new cabinet lineup. “The people want to reform the system through an honest government with independent technocrats supervised by the prime minister-designate without pressure fro ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the neighbouring countries to come forward to curb various maritime crimes, as it is not possible to do that by a single country, reports UNB. "It’s not possible to curb these crimes by a single country... ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk At least 255 people have so far been killed in the countrywide ongoing anti-drug drives in the last five months, with law enforcers still busting drug gangs and recovering huge amount of narcotics, particularly Yaba, almost every day, reports New Age. Physicians, ...বিস্তারিত
