President Abdul Hamid presenting gold medals among the meritorious graduate students in the 5th convocation of Jahangirnagar University in Savar on Thursday.

6 Feb 2015, 12:00 am0

We don`t need sleeping Human Rights Commission

THE High Court in a full verdict about a writ petition relating to torture of domestic help Khadiza, 12, by her employer in 2013 said on Wednesday that the law made the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) a ‘toothless tiger’ to some extent. The court also said that the law enforcing agencies, RAB and police in particular, were allegedly the main violators of human rights, as alleged in the press. The Human Rights Commission is helpless like many other institutions,...

26 Jun 2020, 12:00 am