Dhaka University dormitory expels three students for spreading anti-government propaganda: VC
He came out with his explanation hours after the allegation of harassing students in the name of investigating the reported abuses of quota protesters. “Three students of Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall guilty of spreading misinformation have been handed over to their guardians,” said Akhtaruzzaman, backing the hall authorities’ expulsion order. “They have done the right thing.”The students have been forced out of their dormitory in the middle of Thursday night. Later, the DU authorities withdrew the expulsion order claiming that the probe panel found no evidence of Isha’s involvement in assaults on her fellow students. Moreover, the university authorities summoned the guardians of some students in the middle of the night, further angering the protesters.
Source:bd News24
April 20, 2018 10:30 UTC
Schoolteacher hacked to death in Bogura
The teacher has been identified as 53-year old Abdur Rashid, a resident of Dumuria village of the same upazila. Police arrested two suspects -- Abdur Razzak and his wife Afroza Begum, both residents of the same village. “Rashid had an extramarital affair with Afroza. For this, as much as Tk 100,000 was realised from him in a village arbitration,” said Wahiduzzaman. Police believe the extramarital affair may have led to the killing.
Source:bd News24
April 20, 2018 10:07 UTC
Insurgents south of Syrian capital surrender, says state TV
Air strikes and shelling hit the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp and al-Hajar al-Aswad area, part of a small enclave divided between warring jihadists and other rebels south of the capital. The live state television footage of the area showed a plume of dark smoke billowing across one district as guns boom in the distance. DISPLACEMENTRebels on Thursday began pulling out of Dumayr, an enclave northeast of Damascus, under a surrender deal with the government. Insurgents in another enclave nearby - Eastern Qalamoun - said they had also agreed to withdraw. Jihadist shelling of an adjoining neighbourhood injured five people, Damascus police were cited as saying early on Friday by state television.
Source:bd News24
April 20, 2018 09:56 UTC
Diarrhoea patients on the rise at icddr,b
The number of diarrhoea patients have been increasing at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). As of April 8, around 2000 patients were admitted there. AKM Tariful Islam Khan, media manager of icddr,b said he has never seen such huge amounts of patients getting admitted in the last three years. Those who are admitted at icddr,b, are generally very poor. The hospital authorities are trying their best to provide the best treatments to their patients, they said.
Source:Dhaka Tribune
April 20, 2018 09:11 UTC
Perversion increasing at the same rate as rape
Humanitarian activists are concerned about the way rapists are not only committing rape, but also mutilating and then cruelly murdering children. Psychologists think that rape is not a sexual perversion, rather it denotes a deterioration of their moral values. When a rapist uses rape as a tool for revenge, the chances for perversion increase. “Dr Bilkis added that such experiences at a young age would cast negativity throughout a child’s whole life. Rape is not a result of mental perversion, it is a result of moral deficiency.”She continued: “Rapists have personality disorders.
Source:Dhaka Tribune
April 20, 2018 09:00 UTC
Cambodian man kills ex-wife then commits suicide live on Facebook
Nearly a third of the country's 15.8 million people are Facebook users and the network is a major source of information, particularly for young people. It was the first case," police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told Reuters, referring to the broadcast of the suicide. Reuters was able to access videos of the suicide on Friday shared by Facebook users. A spokesman for Facebook later said the company was "deeply saddened by this tragedy" and that it had removed the video. "We don't allow the promotion of violence or suicide on Facebook and have removed the video," the spokesman said in an email to Reuters.
Source:bd News24
April 20, 2018 09:00 UTC
Thai police arrest German after bomb threat to flight to Bangkok
Thai police on Friday arrested a German man accused of making a bomb threat on a Nok Airlines plane bound for Bangkok, the airline said. The man, who was not named, was arrested after he claimed he was carrying an explosive device in his carry-on baggage on the plane from Loei province in the northeast to Bangkok. The man made the claim before the plane took off, the airline said in a statement. Police have not confirmed whether the bomb threat was fake or real. Budget carrier Nok Air, a subsidiary of Thai Airways, said Flight DD 9705 carrying 83 passengers and five crew members took off as scheduled after the man was arrested.
Source:Dhaka Tribune
April 20, 2018 08:37 UTC
Indian Supreme Court directs government to seize Dawood Ibrahim’s property
The prime properties in Mumbai's Nagpada belonged to Dawood but his mother and sister, both dead, had taken possession of them. Dawood's mother and sister had challenged the takeover after the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai in which 257 were killed. Amina Kaskar and Hasina Parkar had moved the Supreme Court after the tribunal and the Delhi High Court dismissed their challenge to the takeover order in July 1998. They both reportedly had seven residential properties worth millions in their names which were allegedly acquired with Dawood's illegal wealth. Dawood Ibrahim is the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Source:bd News24
April 20, 2018 07:52 UTC
A murky, risky aftermath
The murkiness continues on wider Russia policy too, with the White House debunking earlier talk by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, about plans for a new round of sanctions against Moscow. In striking Syria, Washington demonstrated that it still remains the dominant military force in the Mediterranean — at least when it chooses to ramp up its forces. Last week saw Moscow reportedly blocking GPS signals over parts of Syria, thereby interfering with the activities of US drones. Still, it’s difficult not to conclude that the idiosyncratic nature of the Trump presidency may make managing this more difficult. To an extent, the weekend Syria strikes were little more than highly ritualized theatre, a largely bloodless exercise in the US enforcing red lines and standing up to Russian intimidation.
Source:Dhaka Tribune
April 20, 2018 07:52 UTC
When the air kills
When a report finds that 95% of Earth’s population is inhaling unsafe air, we should all be worried. The report, filed by Boston-based Health Effects Institute (HEI), also concluded that most of that percentage live in underdeveloped countries. Diseases related to air pollution cause over 122,000 deaths in Bangladesh each year, according to the HEI report. Make no mistake: Air pollution is a public health hazard. It is hard to think of a worthier goal than cleaning up the air that we, and our future generations, will breathe.
Source:Dhaka Tribune
April 20, 2018 07:52 UTC
Dying 700-year-old banyan tree put on a saline drip in India
The Telangana forest department is administering saline treatment to the tree to save its life from termite infestation. Located on the outskirts of Mahbubnagar, the tree is claimed by the state forest authorities to be the second largest banyan tree in the world that spreads over three acres drawing large number of tourists every year. It is locally called ‘Pillalamarri’ or children’s banyan tree. It was then the authority decided to inject diluted insecticide into the tree like a saline drip and hung hundreds of saline bottles filled with insecticide every two metres. They are able to grow so large as roots dropped from their branches function as false trunks, providing extra support to the tree.
Source:bd News24
April 20, 2018 07:30 UTC
Breaking the myths about nutrition
Eating well is more than just having enough food on your plate; it’s also about having a good mix of nutrient-dense food. Eating well is more than just having enough food on your plate; it’s also about having a good mix of nutrient-dense food. Poor households struggle with bothThe second mythNutrition is about children: Nutrition is as much about women as it is about children. Therefore, improving women empowerment, changing social norms, and addressing inter and intra-household power dynamics in terms of how a pregnant or lactating mother is treated within the community and within her home are critical. These new fruits and vegetables increase the nutrition in their own diets, as well as the diets of the markets they serve.
Source:Dhaka Tribune
April 20, 2018 07:18 UTC
Gazipur, Khulna polls: EC forms panel to check campaign spending
>> A Gazipur mayoral candidate’s election campaign expenditure must not cross Tk 3 million and the individual spending, including food and fuel costs, is limited to Tk 150,000. >> A Khulna mayoral candidate’s election campaign expenditure must not exceed Tk 1.5 million and the individual expenditure limit is Tk 75,000. However, there are allegations that the commission does not monitor the campaign expenditure properly. Soon after Dhaka and Chattogram city corporation polls in 2015, Transparency International Bangladesh said many candidates breached the election campaign spending limits. Dhaka regional election officer Rakibuddin Mandol has been made the returning officer for Gazipur city elections and Khulna regional election officer Md Yunus Ali for Khulna city elections.
Source:bd News24
April 20, 2018 07:07 UTC
Teachers statewide vote to strike next Thursday; vote in Flagstaff is 81 percent
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