Goal to Eliminate Child Labor Running out of Steam

The International Labor Organization says progress toward eliminating the worst forms of child labor is slowing down.  To mark the World Day Against Child Labor, the ILO is urging countries to do more to end this abhorrent practice.
This year’s World Day Against Child Labor coincides with the World Cup in South [...]

Nimtali Tragedy- Death counts swell to 117

The death counts from Thusday night’s roaring blaze at Old Dhaka’s Nimtali has swelled to 117.
Dhaka’s district commissioner Muhibul Haque said magistrates overseeing search operations gave the counts.
Firefighters are still looking for bodies underneath the debris.
He said 18 of them had yet to be identified. Most of the dead were women and children.
At 5am on [...]

Judgment hailed as ‘landmark’

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a High Court verdict that handed down the death sentence to 12 former army officers in the Bangabandhu murder case, sealing the gruelling and long-disrupted proceedings of 21 years.
People of all walks hailed it as a landmark verdict, delivering justice more than three decades after the killing of independence [...]