PM to attend Riyadh counter-terrorism summit today

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to attend a summit in Riyadh on countering terrorism and containing extremism today.

AL SPECIAL EXTENDED MEETING MPs blamed for creating distance with grassroots

Ruling Awami League’s district committee leaders on Saturday complained that the party MPs distanced themselves from dedicated workers at the grassroots.

Govt urged to cancel water-body leases in hoar belt

Eminent citizens on Saturday urged the government to cancel all the leases of water-bodies in the country’s haor belt and to provide sufficient relief for affected people so that they could overcome huge loses they counted from flashflood.

Kushner called Lockheed CEO about $100B Saudi arms deal

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and utility diplomat, Jared Kushner, shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and asked if she would cut the price of a sophisticated missile detection system, according to a source with knowledge of the call.

PM invited to visit Qatar

Qatari prime minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani has invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to visit the Gulf state.

Take out ‘No Parking’ signs from roads: Annisul

Dhaka north city mayor Annisul Huq on Friday called on the private organisations and firms to take out ‘No Parking’ signs that were put up occupying city roads.

BNP wants success of CJ’s efforts: Moudud

Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Moudud Ahmed on Friday claimed that chief justice SK Sinha was ‘truly trying to establish independence of judiciary’.

AL’s election preparations to begin from today’s meeting: Quader

Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said his party will begin its preparations for the next parliament election from today’s extended meeting to be chaired by party chief Sheikh Hasina.

Land minister’s son among 11 arrested for vandalism

Police arrested Sirhan Sharif Tamal, son of land minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, and 10 others on early Friday in a case of vandalising a house and assaulting an elderly woman the previous evening at Shaheed Aminpara under Ishwardi upazila in Pabna.

Sharia court sentences gay men to public lashing in Indonesia

A Sharia court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province sentenced two gay men to a public caning Wednesday.