No polls under Hasina: Khaleda
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday asked the Election Commission to take steps for holding the next general election under a non-party neutral government, deploying army with magistracy and without using electronic voting machine.
Rohingya crisis: 22 per cent lost both parents
Twenty-two per cent of Rohingya orphans have lost both of their parents and are now struggling to survive with the humanitarian assistance they are getting at Cox’s Bazar shelter centres.
People left to suffer as buses go off roads
Thousands of people suffered throughout Sunday as most of buses and other transports in Dhaka city and adjacent districts were taken off the roads ahead of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s rally in the capital.
Judiciary freed of burden: AG
‘The judiciary is now free from a burden’, attorney general Mahbubey Alam said Sunday when reporters asked for his reaction about Chief Justice SK Sinha’s resignation from abroad.
Putin and I had ‘good discussions’ at Apec summit: Trump
US president Donald Trump said he had ‘good discussions’ with Russian leader Vladimir Putin when they met briefly at an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam.
Trump says North Korea's Kim insulted him by calling him ‘old’
US president Donald Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had insulted him by calling him ‘old’ and said he would never call Kim ‘short and fat’. Trump made the comment after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in
Trump sides with US intelligence agencies on Russian meddling
US president Donald Trump said on Sunday he sided with US intelligence agencies, under their current leadership, when it came to Russian meddling in last year's US election.
CJ Sinha resigns
Chief Justice SK Sinha, now in Canada, resigned on Friday at the end of his 39-day leave. His resignation letter, sent through the Bangladesh High Commissioner in Singapore, an hour before flying to Toronto, reached the President Saturday, a senior foreign ministry official told New Age.
Space crunch slows shifting Rohingyas to mega camp
About 46 per cent Rohingyas are yet to be shifted to the government-designated mega camp for them inside two months of its launch because of inadequate space and continued arrival of Myanmar ethnic minorities.
RANGPUR CLASH, ARSON 2,000 sued in two cases
Police on Saturday filed two cases against around 2,000 people, including 73 named, for Friday’s arson and vandalism of houses and temples of Hindus in village Thakurpara under Rangpur Sadar. In the cases, filed with Kotwali and Gangachara police stations, 48 people, mostly local leaders and activists of Jamaat, were arrested for their suspected involvement in the attacks.
