Ward councillor Ekramul killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’
Teknaf ward councillor Ekramul Haque, also a Awami Juba League leader, was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion during the ongoing anti-drug drive at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar early Sunday.
Delhi keeps Dhaka waiting
Lack of interest of successive Indian governments has held back Bangladesh from taking up major water sector development plans with support from other international quarters.
PM flies to Kolkata today
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka in the morning today on a two-day visit to West Bengal at the invitation of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. She will inaugurate ‘Bangladesh Bhaban jointly with Narendra Modi at Visva Bharati and hold a meeting with him there.
Priyanka urges world to stick by Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Bollywood superstar and UNICEF international goodwill ambassador Priyanka Chopra on Thursday urged the global community to be compassionate and to donate money, time and energy to help the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Rohingya women and children living a miserable life in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
India stalls water sharing talks for eight years
India has kept talks on sharing of water of common rivers with Bangladesh stalled for over eight years holding back the signing of interim agreements on Teesta and Feni rivers and making negotiations on five more rivers uncertain.
Teesta unlikely to get priority
Signing of an interim agreement on sharing of Teesta River waters is unlikely go get prominence in the talks between Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her India counterpart Narendra Modi at Shantiniketan of West Bengal on Friday.
Eight more ‘drug peddlers’ killed
Eight more suspected drug peddlers were killed in reported incidents of ‘gunfight’ in Rangpur, Kushtia, Comilla, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Thakurgaon and Jamalpur early Wednesday as law enforcement agencies continued crackdown on drugs.
Khaleda now falls sick from insect bites in jail: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday claimed that the party’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia had fallen sick again, this time from insect bites in her prison cell.
Draft of maiden gold policy okayed
The cabinet committee on economic affairs on Wednesday okayed the draft of the first-ever gold policy aiming at streamlining the local market and easing the import and export of the precious metal.
Five more ‘drug peddlers’ killed in ‘gunfights’
As the nationwide drive against drugs continues, five more suspected drug peddlers were killed in ‘gunfights’ in Comilla, Jamalpur, Kushtia and Gaibandha on Wednesday.
