July2016

Burma’s Government’s first 100 days fail to impress on human rights

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: Despite encouraging steps, Burma’s new government failed to impress in key human rights areas during its first 100 days in office, FIDH and its member organization ALTSEAN-Burma said today. The two organizations called on...
Madonna moved to tears by case of child rape in Kenya

by News Hour Correspondent - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: Pop star Madonna was reduced to tears during a trip to Kenya as she listened to a man describe how his five-year-old daughter had been recently raped by a neighbor in Nairobi’s Kibera slum,...
E-monitoring school system in Bangladesh

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: Shishuder Jonno program of Save the Children in Bangladesh has been working in partnership with the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) to strengthen the government school monitoring system with an aim to have an...
Promoting and achieving law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children in Bangladesh

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: Child Protection sector of Save the Children in Bangladesh organized a workshop titled ‘Promoting and Achieving Law Reform to Prohibit All Corporal Punishment of Children in Bangladesh’ during 7-9 June, 2016 at the country...
Sultan declared unbelievable mainstream experience by film fraternity

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: Yash Raj Films’ latest and much awaited flick Sultan, starring Salman Khan has left the Indian film fraternity gushing for more, reports Bollyspice. Bollywood celebrities, including Karan Johar, Riteish Deshmukh, Huma Qureshi and Dia...
Japan’s Eisai weighs legal action in UK cancer drug row

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: Japan’s Eisai said on Friday it would consider all options, including possible legal action, to fight delays in Britain’s healthcare system that prevent patients from accessing one of its drugs to treat a rare...
U.S. Democrats pressure Republicans for bipartisan Zika funding

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: The White House and congressional Democrats pressured Republicans on Thursday for bipartisan Zika-funding legislation, saying the public health battle against the mosquito-borne virus is being undercut by efforts to ram through a bill with...
Reverse image search often yields wrong diagnosis for skin disease

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: Google’s reverse image search tool isn’t designed to diagnose skin conditions, researchers say, and people who try to use it this way are likely to get a wrong result. But in a test using...
Juno cancer study halted after patient deaths, shares slide 30 pct

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: A Juno Therapeutics Inc trial of its experimental cancer therapy, known as JCAR015, was put on hold by U.S. regulators after the deaths last week of two leukemia patients, the company said on Thursday....
Low heart risk in middle age tied to less disability in later years

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jul 10, 2016

News Hour: People with few or no heart disease risk factors when they’re in their 40s are less likely to have trouble with activities of daily living in old age, a recent study suggests. Some of...