PURBACHAL PLOT IRREGULARITIES: Ex-Rajuk chair, Partex director arrested
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday arrested former Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha chairman Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury and Partex Group director Shawkat Aziz in a case over plot forgery.
SAGAR-RUNI MURDER RAB fails to detect killers in 5 years
The Rapid Action Battalion investigators failed to identify the suspected killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi into five years of the murders in their bedroom, in the capital. Frustrated family members said they are being deprived of justice.
Polls boycott again to make BNP irrelevant : Quader
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday warned that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party may become irrelevant in politics if it repeats the mistake by boycotting the next polls as it did in the 10th parliamentary elections.
New CEC talking like ‘ruling party spokesman’: BNP
Criticising the chief election commissioner-designate KM Nurul Huda for his reported remark that the parliamentary elections should be held under an elected government, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday alleged that he is talking like the ‘ruling party spokesman’.
Jeff Sessions confirmed to be the next attorney general
The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama as the next attorney general, surviving a vocal push by Democrats to derail his nomination.
India says its economy will bounce back from cash crisis
India expects its economy will recover rapidly from a slowdown caused by last year's self-inflicted cash crisis.
Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened
Another high-profile Trump administration official has made statements about a terror attack that never occurred.
Trump: I wanted month delay before travel ban, was told no
President Donald Trump -- even as he blasted lawyers contesting his immigration executive order -- detailed for the first time Wednesday his own hesitations about the controversial plan before it was signed.
FAILURE TO SIGN TEESTA, FENI DEALS Deals on six rivers put on hold
The government has put on hold negotiations on reaching agreements on sharing of waters of six transboundary rivers as Bangladesh and India have failed to sign an agreement on sharing of waters of Teesta and Feni rivers in spite of formal commitments from two successive Indian prime ministers in the past six years.
PM seeks co-op of all to combat extremism
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has sought more cooperation from all including armed forces in combating militancy and terrorism to keep undisrupted the country’s ongoing development process.
