The people of Bangladesh have created an opportunity for themselves by way of a mass intervention in order to oust the rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and as a result, she has fled the country after resigning from her position. The people were mostly led by students and independent movements of people rather than any traditional political parties. This uprising is a product of long years of suffering of the people under the regime of Hasina. Local and international human rights organisations have repeatedly commented on and protested against the large-scale violence unleashed by her regime on all persons who expressed any form of criticism or any independent views on affairs relating to Bangladesh. Heavy levels of censorship prevailed on all for...
In Bangladesh, weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs turned into a broad uprising that forced the prime minister to flee the country and resign.
The demonstrations began peacefully last month and were primarily led by students frustrated with the system that they said f
avored those with connections to the ruling party.
But it...
On Monday, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reacted as she had so many other times when faced with anti-government resistance: She
vowed to use a heavy hand, undeterred by the officials who
Ashik Chowdhury, a professional skydiver, is all set to jump from 41,000 feet holding aloft the Bangladesh flag in an endeavor to set a new Guinness World Record. United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) will be sponsoring the skydiver in this attempt.
It was revealed during a press conference organized by the skydiver himself at the Economic Reporters Forum-ERF on 21 May 2024. Ashik Chowdhury spoke at the press conference.
As shared during the press conference, themed as “
The highest ever skydive with a flag” the jumping event will be...
Sir Frank Peters
The chief justice of India, Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, has issued a stern warning against the ill effects of corporal punishment from personal experience as a victim. Speaking at a seminar in Kathmandu last Saturday, he recalled when he was caned at school. The incident occurred when he was a Class 5 pupil. The eminent jurist is now 65.
That time-lapse alone speaks volumes about its evil. Corporal punishment is never forgotten, only pushed...
Sir Frank Peters
TODAY (Tuesday, April 30) is International End Corporal Punishment Day, which is a day set aside to grip every country by its green-edged borders that has not already banned the horrific practice, give it a good ‘wake-up’ shake into reality, and awaken it to the colossal harm it’s doing to its children.
Sometimes it takes more than one vigorous shake for governments in semi-permanent hibernation, to wake up to the cruel reality and hypocrisy of their claim tha...
