Nahid accuses media of publishing ‘partial comment’ on bribery

Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Wednesday accused the media of publishing his comment on bribery partially triggering misunderstanding among the masses.

DITF-2018 looking to break new ground

Around 589 pavilions, mini pavilions and stalls, including Bangabandhu Pavilion, will be set up in the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair -2018 scheduled to start on January 1, 2018.

ROHINGYA REPATRIATION Govt prepares to submit list

The government is preparing to submit a list of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to start their repatriation to the country. A process is underway to sign a specific bilateral instrument in ‘a speedy manner’ on a physical arrangement with developing a mechanism for verification of Rohingyas

Four killed in Bogra road accident

At least four people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured in a road accident at Mokamtala of Shibganj in Bogra early Wednesday.

Haley touts reduced UN budget

(CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Sunday touted a quarter billion dollar cut to the UN's annual budget, capping off a contentious year between the Trump administration and the international body

Big league 2018 goal: Trump hopes for bipartisan infrastructure deal

West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, looking ahead to a critical election year where his record will be on the ballot alongside Republican lawmakers, plans a major push on infrastructure in January, aides said this week.

Medical evacuations begin from rebel-held Damascus suburb

(CNN)Evacuations of the first critical medical cases from a rebel-held region east of Damascus have begun, aid agencies say.The Syrian Red Crescent and International Committee of the Red Cross announced, on their official Twitter accounts Tuesday, that the first patients were to be taken out of the rebel-controlled area of Eastern Ghouta.

British tourist gets 3-year sentence in Egypt on drug smuggling charge

(CNN)A British woman who says she was carrying painkillers for her ailing partner was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and fined the equivalent of $5,611 by an Egyptian court.

Even for a place that gets a ton of snow, this was a record-breaking two days for Erie

(CNN)There's White Christmas. And then there's Whiteout Christmas. Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced the latter on Monday, when a total of 34 inches of snow fell on Christmas Day, blanketing the city and shattering the city's previous records for snowfall in a single day

Defence argument continuing in Zia orphanage graft case

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s defence lawyer is placing his closing arguments before a court in Dhaka on Tuesday for the fourth day in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.