Monday, September 28th, 2009 A leader of Pirojpur district unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has lured a class X student to a love trap, raped her and recorded it in cellphone.The video footage has reached local youths through cellphone, flash drives and CDs and is also on sale in video stores.Ahsan Kabir Mamun alias Mamun Hawlader, information and research secretary of district unit BCL, student front of ruling Awami League, admitted the rape but pinned the blame on political and business rivals for the video.Talking to The Daily Star over phone from a hideout on Saturday, Mamun said in an emotionless voice the rape ...
(read more) Friday, August 21st, 2009 Child pornography is on the rise in Bangladesh as 80 percent of the under eighteen-year-old girls involved in sex trade are forced to do so due to poverty, deception, trapping and torturing, said a seminar yesterday in the capital.Manusher Jonno Foundation organised the seminar to share their studies titled "Child in sex trade, a situation analysis" and "Child pornography, an exploratory study at Dhaka" at Jatiya Press Club.The findings revealed a major portion of both school going and out-of-school children are exposed to porno pictures in the form of poster and picture card and porn CDs.They are getting involved ...
(read more) Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Around 3,000 participants from 125 countries Tuesday joined the World Congress on fight against sexual exploitation of Children (WCIII) in Rio de Janeiro of Brazil to share lessons and amplify the efforts in the fight against sexual exploitation of children across the globe.Over 137 different government delegations from all regions of the world and 300 children and adolescents are participating in the WCIII that started on the evening of November 25 with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva inaugurating the event. This is the first time the event is taking place in a developing country.The three-day WCIII ...
(read more) Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 A GMG Airlines aircraft heading for Dhaka from Kuala Lumpur made an emergency landing at a Thai airport after a "mentally disturbed" passenger was seen cutting an apple with a 10-inch-long knife.After a three-hour drama at Don Muang Airport in Bangkok, flight Z5-042 finally made it to Zia International Airport around 2:30pm.The aircraft took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at 7:45 Bangladesh Standard Time (BST). The pilot of the flight asked for an emergency landing permission around 9:45 BST from Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok after a stewardess saw passenger Harun-ar-Rashid having an apple cut with a long ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday urged the Imams (religious leaders) to play a leading role in establishing real democracy and leadership of competent and honest people in the country."This is imperative to realise the nation's dream of a justice-based enlightened society free from black money and corruption", he said while inaugurating the human resource development related National Imam Conference 2007 in the capital.Against the backdrop of incidents of violence in the past, the head of the caretaker government also urged them to always remain vigilant against terrorism, bomb attacks and extreme militancy.He hoped that the Imams and ...
(read more) Friday, February 16th, 2007 The army-led joint forces arrested the elder brother of detained former BNP lawmaker Abdul Wadood Bhuiyan yesterday. As part of their ongoing countrywide drive, they also arrested 1,449 others on various charges in the last 24 hours preceding 6:00am yesterday.Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel arrested eight top BNP leaders of Khagrachhari including Belayet Hossen Bhuiyan alias Saheb, elder brother of Wadood Bhuiyan, in separate raids early yesterday, our Khagrachhari correspondent reports.Belayet, chairman of Ramgour municipality and also the president of Ramgour upazila BNP, was arrested at his house.The other arrestees are Ramgour upazila BNP Secretary and Union Parishad (UP) Chairman Nurul ...
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