Dhaka, July 3 (IANS) As Bangladesh grapples with growing concerns over women’s rights and campus safety, a dispute recently erupted at Dhaka University after female students were allegedly harassed while attempting to watch a football World Cup match on a giant screen, a report has stated.Despite desperate attempts by Islami Chhatra Shibir – the student wing of radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami – to rebrand itself as a “women-friendly” organisation ahead of the Dhaka University Central Stud…
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New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum, which was set to document the mass uprising of Bangladesh during July 2024, has been hit by a recruitment scandal, said a news report citing a string of irregularities even before the structure takes shape.The irregularities pertain to recruitments undertaken for building the museum and also point to a potential conflict of interest involving former cultural affairs adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.The findings, based on an investig…
Dhaka, Jan 6 (IANS) The surge in mob violence across Bangladesh has emerged as a dreaded new form of killing, described by many as a “murderous monster” that ceases only with the victim’s death. The rage of the mob resembles a runaway locomotive that destroys everything in its path, a report said on Tuesday. Writing for ‘Times of Bangladesh’, Dhaka-based author and senior journalist Shahnoor Wahid said, “Murder or homicide has become a favourite sport in Bangladesh. Yes, I prefer to call it a …