Taqbir Huda writes for NYT/DOT : From uncovered manholes to overhanging electric wires to negligent doctors, reckless drivers and callous employers- Bangladesh seems to be teeming with cases of negligence yet the law of tort remains alarmingly underdeveloped. This natura ...বিস্তারিত
Bdnews24 The Anti-Corruption Commission, or ACC, has questioned Transcom Group Chairman and CEO Latifur Rahman for two hours over allegations of amassing wealth beyond known sources of income and laundering money abroad. He was summoned to the commission’s Segun Bagicha ...বিস্তারিত
Arafat Hasan of DOT The party of Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate, seeking to build goodwill, is apparently willing to accept congressional leaders from centrist parties. Jair Bolsonaro won 46 percent of votes on October 7, forcing him into an October 28 run-off ...বিস্তারিত
Abrar Hussain of DOT United Nations agencies made a global call yesterday for eradicating virginity testing, which is medically unnecessary & often painful. Virginity testing, a gynaecological examination conducted with the belief that it determines whether a woman or ...বিস্তারিত
AFP Five Czech soldiers have been injured in an attack in Afghanistan only two months after three others were killed, the Czech defense ministry said on Thursday. “The attack on the Czech patrol occurred on day before yesterday around 1220 GMT near the Bagram base in the ...বিস্তারিত
Kabir Humayun of DOT President M Abdul Hamid has expressed deep shock at the death of Ayub Bacchu, one of the country’s top rock musicians and founder of popular band LRB. The rock star died of a cardiac arrest at his Magbazar residence here yesterday. He was 56. In a c ...বিস্তারিত
Abrar Hussain of DOT The United Nations Human Rights Watch (HRW) has revealed in a new report that female students in Senegal – some as young as 16 – are coerced by their teachers into having sexual intercourse in exchange for better grades. In the report titled ‘It' ...বিস্তারিত
Abrar Hussain of DOT South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Pope Francis yesterday while the Blue House revealed that he had relayed an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the pope to visit. Moon, a Catholic, relayed the invitation verbally, Yonhap news age ...বিস্তারিত
BBC The Brussels summit is over and Theresa May and her EU counterparts have agreed on something - to keep talking about Brexit. But for how long? Downing Street is refusing to rule out extending the transition period after leaving the EU (due to happen next March) for a ye ...বিস্তারিত
The Guardian, UK Weapons of war have been used to indiscriminately kill and injure anti-government protesters in Nicaragua, as part of the ongoing violent crackdown ordered by the upper echelons of government, according to an Amnesty International investigation. At least 3 ...বিস্তারিত