Search committee likely this week
The president, Abdul Hamid, is likely to form a search committee in a couple of days to reconstitute the Election Commission, which would conduct the next parliamentary election.
BERC limps with one member, no chair
The five-member Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, the country’s independent watchdog for energy sector, is running with only one member and without the chairman for more than one month.
Netrokona war crimes suspect dies at DMCH
A detained war crimes suspect from Netrokona died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday morning.
Arafat Sunny denied bail, sent to jail
A Dhaka court on Tuesday denied bail to Bangladesh national cricketer Arafat Sunny and ordered him to be sent to prison after completion of his remand in a case filed under Information and Communication Technology Act 2006.
Trump's TPP withdrawal: 5 things to know
President Donald Trump has begun carrying out his campaign pledges to undo America's trade ties -- starting Monday with executive action to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Senate committee approves Tillerson for secretary of state
Former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson won the backing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday to be secretary of state when it voted 11-10 to send his nomination to the full Senate.
China's new two-child policy sparks increase in births
The number of babies born in China in 2016 jumped 7.9% from the previous year, according to government figures, a jump attributable to China's shift to a two-child policy.
What we learned at Sean Spicer's first briefing
White House press secretary Sean Spicer met the press for his first official briefing Monday, engaging in a wide-ranging give-and-take for well over an hour.
BCSIR misfires for decades
The country’s leading multidisciplinary public research institute, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has only a few original researches to its credit in its lifetime spanning over six decades.
Police want revocation of anti-torture law
A field-level police official in an annual gathering of police in Dhaka on Monday demanded revocation of the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013.
