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BAN Toxics Lauds FDA and QCHD for Swift Action Against Shops Selling Mercury-Added Skin Lightening Products
Toxic watchdog BAN Toxics today commended the Quezon City Health Department (QCHD) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its recent operation against the sale of mercury-added skin whitening creams in one of the city’s established malls. On June 14,…
FM Hasan Mahmud’s Riyadh Visit for Injecting a Strong Impetus into KSA-Bangladesh Diplomacy
by Ozair Islam From July 1–3, Bangladeshi FM Hasan Mahmud is in Riyadh on an official visit to cement the official diplomacy between Bangladesh and the KSA. There are two main reasons why this visit is really important. First, following…
PPFA Bats for a Correct NRC with the 1951 Base Year
Guwahati: Expressing distress over the recent debates about the voting pattern of Bangladesh-origin Muslims in favor of a particular political party in the General Elections 2024 and a steady increase in aggression over the original inhabitants despite enjoying development benefits…
From coexistence to community
Celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Five Principles of Nonviolent Coexistence Seven decades ago, the “Five Principles of Nonviolent Coexistence” were coined. Zhou Enlai, then Premier of the young People’s Republic of China, first proposed them at the Bangdu…
Groups Champion Children’s Environmental Rights amid the Triple Planetary Crisis
28 June 2024, Quezon City, Philippines. As the effects of the triple planetary crisis of climate emergency, collapse of biodiversity and pervasive pollution are brought to light, civil society groups called on duty-bearers, governments and industries in particular, to take…
Oppenheimer’s Apology to A-Bomb Survivors Revealed in New Footage
June 20, Hiroshima — NHK has uncovered newly found video footage in Hiroshima City, revealing that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the development of the atomic bomb, apologized to survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 60…
Bangladesh’s reaction to Mamata’s stance on water sharing
One letter, many questions. Bangladesh is shocked by the statement that has come up in this letter! West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written this letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There is nothing wrong in writing letters, in…
BAN Toxics Joins Poison Prevention Week Awareness Activity, Highlights Need to Protect Children
“Poison prevention should start at home and in the community.” This was the main message of environmental NGO BAN Toxics as they joined the East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) Toxicology Referral and Training Center’s lecture forum in celebration of National…
Why Bengal CM Mamata Mustn’t Harm the Emerging Bangladesh-India Good Neighborhood Ties?
by Ozair Islam In a regretful tone, Prime Minister Modi said, “Mamata is ruining Bangladesh-India relations,” at an election campaign stop in Barrackpore, North 24 Parganas district, on May 12. It seems clear now that Modi is entirely correct in…
Indian Journalist Stabbed to Death, PEC Demands Probe
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock over the murder of an Indian journalist based in Bihar on Tuesday evening and demands a fair probe into the incident to identify the culprits for necessary…
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