Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:16, Jun 11,2021
Concerned Civil Society holds a discussion on proposed national budget at Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital auditorium in Dhaka on Thursday. New Age photo
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his proposed national budget for 2021-22 financial year has deprived the common people of their rightful share by allocating a tiny amount for their welfare, observed a group of politicians, economists and professionals at a discussion on Thursday.
The discussion on the proposed budget was organised by Concerned Civil Society, a platform of various political parties, NGOs, rights organisations and memorial societies, at Gonoshasthya Nagar Hospital auditorium in Dhaka.
Protesters want return of missing kin, end to crime of enforced disappearance
Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:08, May 29,2021 | Updated: 04:46, May 29,2021
Family members of the victims of enforced disappearance stage a demonstration, demanding measures to find out the people, in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. Sony Ramany
Victim families of enforced disappearance call the government to either find their relatives alive or locate their remains alleging that the country’s security and law enforcement agencies were behind the abductions of their family members mostly belonging to the opposition political parties and represented the voices of dissent.
Mothers, sisters, children, spouses and their sympathisers holding photos, banners and placards or portraits of their missing relatives, in a rally in front of the National Press Club, also vowed that they would be waiting for justice and to bring