44 domestic helps tortured in 2020: Bangladesh
Forty-four domestic helps in the country faced workplace torture in 2020.Of them, 16 were killed, 12 were raped, and 12 more suffered serious physical torture...
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China finance official executed in bribery case
AP :The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company was executed Friday on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for...
KY Steel’s former director embezzled Tk 600 crore
Staff Reporter :A high official of KY Steel, a sister concern of Chattogram-based business conglomerate KDS Group, has allegedly embezzled Tk 600 crore.The Group filed...
India cuts off internet near Delhi as farmers begin hunger strike
Reuters :India blocked mobile internet services in several areas surrounding New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week...
Covid vaccines Those that work-and the others to come
Mass vaccination campaigns are under way in the fight back against the coronavirus.A range of vaccines, designed in completely different ways, are being used to...
Daughter-in-law shot at UP chairman’s home in Noakhali
Our Correspondent :The daughter-in-law of Noakhali’s Begumganj Upazila Parishad chairman Shahnaz Begum was injured after being shot at her residence on Saturday afternoon.Subarna Haque is...
Another 1464 Rohingyas reach Bhasan Char
BSS :A total of 1,464 Rohingyas on Saturday reached Bhasan Char from Patenga Boat Club in Chattogram in the fourth batch under the supervision of...
Indian premier likely to visit Tungipara: Officials
BSS, New Delhi :Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Tungipara to pay homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
Human rights violators to be brought to justice: Anisul
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Saturday reiterated the government’s stance on protecting rights of the people, saying if anybody violates human...
Couple found dead in Sherpur
UNB, Sherpur :Police recovered the bodies of a man and woman from Nakla upazila of Sherpur on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Samedul Islam Helal,...
Bangladeshi food is a rarity around New York helps fill the void
The New York Times :One Monday afternoon in December, Nur-E Gulshan Rahman was perched on a hot-pink step stool, her body hunched over a boti,...
Risky roads, risky trips Death processions getting longer
Syed Shemul Parvez :Death procession is increasing in the capital and one after another accident is taking place which is appalling the dwellers every day....