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Stop pornography in social media: HC

The High Court today (Sunday) directed the government to stop uploading and sending pornography, vulgar picture and video by service providers through mobile phones and social media including Facebook and Tweeter in seven days. say_no_to_pornIn response to a writ petition, the court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why its inaction to stop such activities in the social media should not be declared illegal. Chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and secretary to the M...

Over 1,500 Bangladesh civil servants to get training in India

Over 1,500 Bangladesh civil services officers are likely to be trained in the next three years in different Indian institutions, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said here today. Interacting with visiting Bangladeshi Minister Begum Ismat Ara Sadique, who had called upon him here, the Minister expressed satisfaction over growth in bilateral relations between the two nations. bd-indiaReferring to traditional ties between India and Bangladesh, Singh said that it was a matter of great satisfaction that in recent times the bilateral relations had grown further at...

India-Bangladesh boundary bill passed

The Lok Sabha today passed the constitution amendment bill to implement the historic land boundary agreement with Bangladesh, completing the stamp of approval by Indian parliament to settle the more than four-decade-old land boundary and exchange of enclaves issues. bd-indiaThe bill was unanimously passed by Rajya Sabha yesterday. The same bill was okayed by Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, around 6:10pm (Indian time). Moving the 119th Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha earlier in the day, which w...

‘Ban told Hasina to find political way forward’

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh during his conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday. Ban ki Moon"The Secretary-General, I think, expressed his opinion in the way we've been expressing it here, which is to call to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh," said the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General at a daily press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York yesterday. He made the remarks when a questioner wan...

Death, life top penalties for rape, killing

Both death and life term can be awarded as highest punishment for rape and killing, the Supreme Court ruled today. The judgement upheld a High Court verdict that scrapped the provision of single punishment in the concerned law – which was death. supreme court_0Now, Section 6(2) of Women and Children Repression Prevention (Special) Act 1995 will become void. The amendment made later in 2000 which offers life sentence as alternative punishment along with the death penalty will take effect. On March 2, 2010, High Court ann...

Indian agents in city to discuss regional terrorism

A team of agents from the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has landed in Dhaka on Monday. NIA agents previously visited Dhaka after the bomb explosion in Bardhaman of India. This time a high-level three member team of national-investigating-agencyNIA led by its Inspector General Sanjib Kumar Singh came over to Dhaka on Monday just two days after the South Asian Al-Qaeda acknowledged its responsibility over the Avijit Roy murder. Joint Commissioner of Bangladesh Police Detective Branch, Mo...
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