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Hosting 1.1m Rohingyas a big burden Says PM 

 

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Mentioning that hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas is a big burden for Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it wants to resolve the Rohingya crisis through discussions with Myanmar.
"Giving shelter to such a large number of Rohingyas is a big burden for us ... we want to resolve the issue through discussions," she said during a meeting with Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on Monday evening (London time).
PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told UNB over phone from London that Lord Ahmad, also British PM's Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, assured her of all possible support over the Rohingya issue, saying that new British PM Boris Johnson was aware of it. About combating terrorism, Hasina and Lord Ahmad said Islam is a religion of peace and it does not support terrorism. Hasina said her government created mass awareness involving the cross- section of people to fight terrorism. She also talked about the existing communal harmony in Bangladesh, saying that people of all faiths are exercising their respective religions freely. Hasina informed Lord Ahmad that the government was establishing Islamic research centres across the country to uphold the true spirit of Islam.



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BHRC & IHRC Human Rights Report on August 2019 in Bangladesh

Total 160 persons killed in

August 2019

Human Rights Report:

The documentation section of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) and International Human Rights Commission-IHRC jointly furnished this human rights survey report on the basis of daily newspapers and information received from its district, sub-district and municipal branches. As per survey it appears that 160 peoples were killed in August, 2019 in all over the country. It proves that the law and order situation is not satisfactory. Bangladesh Human Rights Commissions extremely anxious about this situation. In the month of August, 2019 average 5 people were killed in each day.
The Law enforcing agencies and related Govt. departments should be more responsible so that percentage of killing May be brought down to zero level. To institutionalize the democracy and to build human rights based society the rule of law and order must be established everywhere. Through enforcing rule of law only such violation against human rights can be minimized.
It appears from documentation division of BHRC:
Total 160 persons killed in August, 2019
Killing for dowry 4, killing by family violence 32, Killed due to social discrepancy 47, Killed by Law enforcing authority 33, Killed due to doctor negligence 2, Abduction 5, Assassination 5, Mysterious death 30, Women & Chilled killed due to rape 6, Killed by Acid throwing 1
Killed by several accidents:
Killed by road accident 301, B. Suicide 20
Besides victims of torture:
Rape 41, Sexual Harassment 50, Torture for Dowry 4, Journalist torture 5, Acid throwing 1.



 

University's Role as the Locus of Knowledge Creation 
S. M. Rayhanul Islam

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Among the total educational institutes of a country, universities play the crucial role in producing skilled human resources. Besides the mission of teaching-learning, the modern universities now have a new identity as the locus of knowledge creation through research in meeting the diverse challenges of the society. A quick check reveals that most of the best universities in the world are research universities; because a research university typically attracts best researchers and scholars, most research funds and has the best reputation globally. A research university is an institute in which original research and scholarship are an integral and major part of the university's mission. The faculty members in a research university are not simply teachers, but rather are active contributors to what is taught, thought, and practiced.
In the book "The Research University in Today's Society", scientist, investor and philanthropist Dr. Gerald Chan examines the role of philanthropy in the rapidly changing university education environment. The book is mainly the outcome of a lecture by the author delivered at the University College London (UCL). Dr Chan's thought-provoking lecture ranges from pre-Enlightenment beliefs to the invention by Steve Jobs of the first Apple Macs, to demonstrate the vital role of universities to humanity. He proposes that society will be short-changed if the purpose of universities is seen as human resource rather than humanity. There is no doubt that university research is now the most powerful impulse for human progress. If the research function of the university produced innovations, it is the educational function of the university that produces the human talent that will sustain innovation as well as transform innovations into substantial benefits for the wider society.
The modern universities are confronted with a tension: offering a liberal education versus professional training. Dr. Gerald Chan believes that our society and our economy are best served by people who are both civilised by being liberally educated and empowered by being professionally trained. He also draws our attention towards two conditions necessary for a university teaching and research.
First, a university must be a place of inclusiveness and tolerance. The faculty should be protected by academic freedom.

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In images, the life and times of a history maker

 

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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman remains, in that very heightened sense of historical perception, the Bengali window to the world. It is a niche he earned long ago, years before the forces of conspiracy, which were but a combination of the local and the international, succeeded in their macabre intention to put an end to his life. And what followed for a long period of twenty one years once that sinister conspiracy came to pass was the effort by successive dictatorial and anti-meeting with Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on Monday evening (London time).
PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told UNB over phone from London that Lord Ahmad, also British PM's Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, assured her of all possible support over the Rohingya issue, saying that new British PM Boris Johnson was aware of it. About combating terrorism, Hasina and Lord Ahmad said Islam is a religion of peace and it does not support terrorism. Hasina said her government created mass awareness involving the cross- section of people to fight terrorism. She also talked about the existing communal harmony in Bangladesh, saying that people of all faiths are exercising their respective religions freely. Hasina informed Lord Ahmad that the government was establishing Islamic research centres across the country to uphold the true spirit of Islam.
historical regimes holding sway over Bangladesh to try to airbrush him and his ideals out of history. The effort did not succeed, for Bangabandhu towered above his enemies and indeed had become synonymous with the heritage and history of Bangladesh.
In the years since the detractors of the Father of the Nation were sent packing through the restoration of political decency and historical truth in 1996, much has been written on his life, career and ideals. That was as it ought to have been, for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman remains emblematic of all the good and all the promise that have been associated with this country. It is the persona of this man of history, of this moving force behind the emergence of new history in our part of the world which Enayetullah Khan brings to bear in his defining work, Bangabandhu: Epitome of a Nation. To be sure, Khan is reiterating what we have always known about the nation's founding father.



 
 

No impunity for HR violations in Rakhine: UK   

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British Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field has said the gravity of the UN report on human rights violations in Myanmar warrants the attention of both the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Security Council. He said there cannot and must not be impunity for such acts, which the Mission has concluded warrants "the investigation and prosecution of senior officials in the Tatmadaw chain of command, so that a competent court can determine their liability for genocide in relation to the situation in Rakhine State. "We will discuss options for bringing the report before the Security Council with other members once the Fact-Finding Mission have made their final presentation to the Human Rights Council in September," he said in a statement. The British Minister said they commend the Fact-Finding Mission for its work and look forward to seeing the full report.
Mark Field said, the UN Fact-Finding Mission's conclusions on human rights violations in Myanmar since 2011, in particular the truly horrific violence from August last year in Rakhine, come as no surprise.
"Anyone like myself who has been engaged directly in this terrible crisis, or has spoken to Rohingya refugees, knows the Burmese military is primarily to blame for such appalling human rights violations as the widespread rape and murder of the Rohingya people," he said.
The Fact-Finding Mission provides yet more damning evidence of their culpability, according to the statement UNB received from the FCO. There also remains an urgent need for domestic acceptance and accountability in Myanmar, he said.
"It's now essential the Burmese government sets out how its Commission of Inquiry will be able to investigate these crimes with full impartiality and how it will be linked to a judicial process to hold those responsible to account," he added. Meanwhile, British Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development Alistair Burt will visit Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar district on Wednesday morning.

 
 

Police investigate after man says he found baby in freezer
 

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A St. Louis man says a box that had been in his mother's freezer for decades contained the mummified remains of a newborn baby, which he discovered while cleaning out her home after she died.
Adam Smith told St. Louis media outlets that he opened the cardboard box Sunday expecting to find something like the top of his mother's first wedding cake or money because she never had a bank account. Instead, he says he found an infant's body and a pink blanket.
St. Louis police confirmed that they are investigating a "suspicious death" involving an "unknown infant" found inside the home and that autopsy results were pending. However, police would not answer questions Tuesday beyond an incident summary released Monday. That summary said that police were called to the home just before 1 a.m. on Sunday and did not say where in the home the remains were found.
Smith said police questioned him for two hours and that he provided investigators with a DNA sample.
Smith said his mother took the box with her as she moved to four different apartments in St. Louis but that she wouldn't answer her children's questions about it. He said he remembers asking his mother when he was 7 or 8 years old why she seemed sad. "All I can remember is that she told me, 'My oldest child would have been 21 today,'" he recalled. "And that her name was 'Jennifer.'"

 

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