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.
1,433 seek AL nomination for 43 reserved JS seats for women
Ruling Awami League on Friday concluded the four-day sale of nomination forms for election to the reserved seats for women in the 11th parliament.
Fast track projects on slow lane
The implementation rates of most of the 10 fast track projects are poor despite special focus and monitoring by a special committee of the Prime Minister’s Office while economists think that delayed implementations cause cost overruns and lower expected benefits from them.
Dhaka seeks int’l community’s support on Rohingya crisis
The government on Thursday requested the international communities for their constructive role in extending cooperation for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis by sending people of the community to Myanmar from Bangladesh.
