Govt urged to cancel water-body leases in hoar belt
Eminent citizens on Saturday urged the government to cancel all the leases of water-bodies in the country’s haor belt and to provide sufficient relief for affected people so that they could overcome huge loses they counted from flashflood.
Kushner called Lockheed CEO about $100B Saudi arms deal
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and utility diplomat, Jared Kushner, shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and asked if she would cut the price of a sophisticated missile detection system, according to a source with knowledge of the call.
PM invited to visit Qatar
Qatari prime minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani has invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to visit the Gulf state.
Take out ‘No Parking’ signs from roads: Annisul
Dhaka north city mayor Annisul Huq on Friday called on the private organisations and firms to take out ‘No Parking’ signs that were put up occupying city roads.
BNP wants success of CJ’s efforts: Moudud
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Moudud Ahmed on Friday claimed that chief justice SK Sinha was ‘truly trying to establish independence of judiciary’.
AL’s election preparations to begin from today’s meeting: Quader
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said his party will begin its preparations for the next parliament election from today’s extended meeting to be chaired by party chief Sheikh Hasina.
Land minister’s son among 11 arrested for vandalism
Police arrested Sirhan Sharif Tamal, son of land minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, and 10 others on early Friday in a case of vandalising a house and assaulting an elderly woman the previous evening at Shaheed Aminpara under Ishwardi upazila in Pabna.
Sharia court sentences gay men to public lashing in Indonesia
A Sharia court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province sentenced two gay men to a public caning Wednesday.
Chikungunya spreading
Mosquito-borne viral disease Chikungunya is spreading afresh in the capital with early rainfalls this year after a break of about five years.
23 to die for killing 4 AL activists
A Narayanganj court on Wednesday handed death sentence to 23 people including the then Araihazar thana unit BNP vice-president, now a local Awami League leader Abul Bashar Kashu for killing four AL activists of Jalakandi, Araihazar, Narayanganj on March 12, 2001.
