Erdogan greets Hasina
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has congratulated prime minister Sheikh Hasina on her re-appointment as the prime minister of Bangladesh.
Cases to be filed over Bangladesh Bank stolen reserve by Jan
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday said that Bangladesh Bank will file cases in New York by January for recovering remaining Bangladesh’s stolen reserve ahead of the deadline of February 3.
Coaching centres to remain shut during SSC exams
The education ministry has decided to keep coaching centres across Bangladesh for a month from January 27 to prevent leak of question papers during the Secondary School Certificate examinations.
Another woman raped at home in Noakhali
A 29-year-old mother of three children was raped at her home in Kabirhat, Noakhali by a local Awami League man and his associates early Saturday as her husband has been in jail custody since December 23 in a fabricated case, called ‘Gayebi Mamla’ lodged with Kabirhat police station. On Saturday afternoon,
Trump offers 'compromise' to end government shutdown
US president Donald Trump proposed an immigration deal on Saturday in a bid to end a 29-day partial government shutdown, including temporary protections for ‘Dreamers’ and other immigrants, but Democrats immediately dismissed it.
Free country from corruption, drug abuse, extremism: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked home ministry to pay attention to rooting out drug abuse, terrorism, militancy and corruption from the country as that was the necessity of the time.
Gulshan café attack accused extremist held
A team of Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a charge-sheeted accused of the case filed over Gulshan Holey Artisan Bakery attack in 20016.
PM pledges to establish political rights of citizens
Prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina on Saturday pledged to establish political rights of all citizens.
Govt, int’l community urged to put pressure on Mynamar
Academics and lawyers at a symposium in Dhaka on Saturday called on the international community to focus on the need for the compensation for state-sponsored violence forcing Rohingyas to flee their home in Rakhine in Myanmar to Bangladesh.
UNSG finds Bangladesh polls ‘not perfect’
The United Nations secretary general, Antonio Guterres, on Friday said the 11th parliamentary election in Bangladesh was ‘not perfect’ and called for meaningful dialogue among the political parties in Bangladesh.
