report in Prothom Alo, 13 Aug 2023Sohel Tanjim, a physician of a private medical college hospital in Sirajganj, had been missing along with his wife Mayesha Islam since 26 July. Their family lodged a general diary with the local police station, seeking assistance to trace them. The police arrested Mayesha from a militant den in a deserted area of Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar on Saturday, but her husband Sohel managed to escape. The counter terrorism…
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by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Jun 18, 2023In mid-June, a worried couple in their mid-forties visited the Koteshwar-based Narcotics Control Bureau with a problem. The couple came from a well-off family in Bhaisepati, Lalitpur and were concerned about the abnormal habits of their only, 20-year-old, son. Over the past few weeks, their son came home late at night, his eyes red. Curiously, however, he didn’t reek of alcohol or cigarettes. He would easily…
report in Daily Mirror online, 28 April 2023at 03:00 pmWhile expressing surprise on the US decision to blacklist him and his family from entering US, North Western Province Governor Wasantha Karannagoda yesterday said that there is ‘something else’ behind the move. “I have some doubts about the move and believed that there is something else behind this,” the former Navy Commander Karannagoda said adding that, “It was a surprise to me that 14 years after…
by Dipankar Roy in The Daily Star, Mar 22, 2023Waking up before dawn, Dipali Mondal takes a three-km walk every day to collect drinking water from a pond for her five-member family in Channirchak village of Khulna’s Dakop upazila. She needs to walk through a bumpy road to the pond. “I have to cross a big canal on the way to fetch pond water. On a sunny day, I cannot walk much at a stretch.…
by Bharat Jargha Magar in The Kathmandu Post,Feb 2, 2023Forty-eight-year-old Shankar Sadaya lives in Shobhapur, a Musahar settlement in Lahan Municipality-18, Siraha. Most people in the settlement, including his family of five, have been deprived of basic government services for the lack of citizenship certificate. “All five members of my family are above 16 years of age but we haven’t been able to acquire citizenship certificates,” said Shankar. “Because of that, my children were deprived…
by Inam Ul Haque in The Express Tribune, Jan 26, 2023.The writer is a retired major generalHe is a senior retired civilian officer from defence establishment with deep family links to the armed forces. A friend for life, and a relatively level-headed amongst many; so, it was strangely weird to hear him complain about the moorings of this country, and his innate desire to emigrate elsewhere even in these twilight years of life. For being…
AP | Jan 12, 2023, 11.19 AM ISTKABUL: Noura’s determination to play sports was so great that she defied her family’s opposition for years. Beatings from her mother and jeers from her neighbors never stopped her from the sports she loved. But the 20-year-old Afghan woman could not defy her country’s Taliban rulers. They have not just banned all sports for women and girls, they have actively intimidated and harassed those who once played, often…
by S Dilip Roy in The Daily Star, Jan 7, 2023It has been 12 years since Felani, a Bangladeshi teenager, was shot dead by a member of India’s Border Security Force and left hanging from the barbed fence of the border along Kurigram, but her family is still waiting for justice. Felani’s murder case is pending with the Supreme Court of India. It has not yet been included in the judicial list. On the dawn…
report in Daily Mirror online, 26 Dec 2022 at 03:27 pmFormer President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and four of his family members left for the United States this morning, airport sources said. They said the former president’s spouse Ioma Rajapaksa, daughter-in-law Sevvandi Rajapaksa, his son Manoj Rajapaksa and grandchild were among those who left for the USA at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) this morning.https://www.dailymirror.lk/top_story/GR-and-wife-leave-for-USA/155-251054