Hasina sells country: Khaleda
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia alleged Saturday evening that prime minister Sheikh Hasina had sold the country for clinging to power.
Mercy pleas of Mufti Hannan, two others rejected
The president has rejected petitions for clemency filed by banned Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and its two activists, clearing the way of their executions any time for killing three people and injuring former UK high commissioner Anwar Choudhury in a grenade attack in 2004.
Defence deal tops agenda
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are set for official talks in New Delhi today, with the signing of a deal on defence cooperation framework and over 30 other agreements on the plate, according to officials.
No defence deal without solving pressing issues: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday claimed that only any defence deal or memorandum of understanding between Bangladesh and India without settlement of the pressing problems of Bangladesh would not be acceptable to people.
Medical wastes on roads, water bodies raise concerns
Unabated biomedical waste dumping on roads, waste bins, drains, water bodies and open spaces in the capital and elsewhere in the country raised serious public health and environmental concern.
Sushma calls on PM
Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj paid a courtesy call on prime minister Sheikh Hasina at Rashtrapati Bhaban here on Friday.
PM hopeful about Teesta
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her firm optimism about solution of Teesta water sharing issue and signing of a deal with India in this regard.
Trump meets Xi: What's at stake
It's a blind date with global ramifications.President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping meet for the first time Thursday and will seek to forge a connection and to stabilize the world's most important diplomatic relationship,
Suu Kyi denies Rohingya ethnic cleansing
Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports of abuses.
Bangladesh moves up in Human Dev Index
Bangladesh moved up three spots and ranked 139th out of 188 countries in the latest global human development ratings of the United Nations Development Programme.
