- 42,000 Bangladeshi expats seek voter registration abroad
- Global art market slumps as Chinese auction sales plummet: data
- Netanyahu cares only about his political survival: Captive’s father
- ICT gets complaint over enforced disappearance of Chowdhury Alam
- 40,000 Palestinians uprooted by Israel’s West Bank raids: UN
- US President Donald Trump 'unpredictable': Greenland PM
- EC does not want to miss national election timeline in Dec
- Iran rejects claims of any involvement in Syria violence
- Tarique Rahman cleared of sedition charges
- China urges all parties to 'immediately stop' clashes in Syria
- CA's Special Assistant Prof M Aminul Islam resigns
- Fire at Liberation War Museum; doused quickly
- Morning ghee drink: skin and gut cure or just hype?
- China moves closer to flying car mass production
- Women’s participation in banking sector surges significantly
- HC issues 9 directives for online business platforms
- Brook withdraws from IPL to 'recharge' and focus on England
- EC invites applications for new political party registration
- Commission wants to reach a consensus shortly to formulate 'National Charter’: Ali Riaz
- Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance
US immigration agents arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia
U.S. immigration agents have arrested a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New Yorks Columbia University, the student workers labor union said on Sunday, reports Reuters. The student, Mahmoud Khalil, who studies at the universitys School...
Japan, UNICEF ink $3.3m deal to strengthen support for Rohingya children
The government of Japan has allocated approximately USD 3.3 million (JPY 500 million) to support UNICEFs response to the humanitarian needs of Rohingya refugees. Through this grant, 65,000 Rohingya refugees, including 41,000 children, will receive access to education, WASH, health, and nutrition...
UNICEF calls for ending criminalization of children
UNICEF has said it seeks a justice system fit for children that ends their criminalization, reports UNB. Rather than treating children as threats, ensure they understand their accountability, recognize them as rights holders in need of care, protection, and rehabilitation, said the UN agency....
UNICEF calls UN report shocking
UNICEF has described the UN Human Rights Office report on the tragic events that took place in Bangladesh in July and August 2024 as shocking and heartbreaking. Among the 1,400 people the report estimates were killed between July 1 and August 15, more than a hundred of them were children, Rana...
Malnutrition causing severe health hazards for children
Lack of awareness and economic hardship are contributing to malnutrition of new born babies causing their abnormal growth, short stature and disabilities, reports BSS. The media report cites doctors as saying: Early-life malnutrition is an important risk factor for later-life adult diseases and...
UNICEF official decries the ‘brutalisation’ of children in Gaza
UNICEF communications specialist Rosalia Bollen says its absolutely appalling that children continue to be killed every day in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera. While attacks are concentrated on the north, families are killed here in the centre and southern parts of Gaza as well, she told the media from...