Bureaucratic hurdles to be streamlined for foreign investors: FM
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said that the foreign affairs ministry would remain engaged to facilitate win-win proposals and help streamline bureaucratic hurdles for foreign companies which were keen to invest in Bangladesh.
May urges Imran Khan to take action on terrorist groups
British prime minister Theresa May emphasised the importance of Pakistan taking action against all terrorist groups in a call with prime minister Imran Khan on Sunday, May’s office said.
Health catastrophe in the making
Amit Kar, 26, of Shalikha in Magura, was admitted to the intensive care unit at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University with unconsciousness and convulsion on November 18, 2018. He sustained injuries in the head and chest in a traffic accident two days before his admission to the university hospital.
Obaidul Quader in critical condition
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader was in a critical condition at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital where he was admitted Sunday morning with cardiac complication.
Chemical merchants resist utility snapping drive, confine taskforce officials
Chemical merchants and their workers confined taskforce personnel inside a chemical warehouse on Raj Narayan Datta Road in old Dhaka for about two hours on Sunday after they arrived there to snap utility services of buildings housing chemical concerns.
Stay alert to face internal, external threats, PM asks army
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed members of Bangladesh Army to keep a constant vigil to face any ‘internal and external threats’ for safeguarding the country’s constitution and sovereignty.
Gowher Rizvi criticised for doubting disappearance
Families of the victims of enforced disappearance and rights activists criticised prime minister’s international affairs adviser Gowher Rizvi for doubting reported cases of disappearance in Bangladesh.
Quader falls sick, admitted to BSMMU
Road, transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University as he fell sick on Sunday morning.
Seven more killed in Indo-Pak shelling
Tensions between India and Pakistan raged Saturday as heavy firing by their armies killed at least seven people on either side of their fiercely disputed Kashmir border.
SAARC suffers for members’ indolence
Sluggishness creeps into the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation with no political impetus from top leaders of all eight member countries as they collectively failed to meet in the last five years in violation of a commitment the countries jointly made in 2014 to hold summit ‘every two years or earlier’.
