Here's what Europe would think if Trump goes easy on Putin

President Donald Trump's hints about easing sanctions on Russia have been met with a clear European response -- please don't.

Bureaucracy reforms Govt move on the backburner

The government seems to have forgotten its election pledge that it would reform the bureaucracy to free it from the clutches of influence of the party in power and make it more service oriented. An objective of the pledged reform was to make merit rather than patronage as the bedrock for the nation’s civil service.

PM blasts anti-Rampal Power Plant campaigners again

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina once again came down heavily on the campaigners against the Rampal Power Plant, saying that they never visited the power plant site to ascertain its impact on the Sunderbans.

Search committee seeks five names from 31 parties each

The six-member search committee on Election Commission reconstitution on Saturday sought five names as potential election commissioners from each of the 31 political parties that held discussion with president Abdul Hamid on the much talked-about issue.

Dhaka won’t bow to outside pressures, says Menon

Workers Party of Bangladesh on Saturday said the country is not in a position that it would bow to the illicit interference by others into its domestic affairs.

Torture not to deter us from anti-Rampal movement: Anu

Member secretary of National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas, Mineral Resources and Power-Port Anu Muhammad on Saturday said the government would not be able to stop their movement against the Rampal power project through resorting to torture.

Trump signs executive order to keep out 'radical Islamic terrorists'

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that indefinitely suspends admissions for Syrian refugees and limits the flow of other refugees into the United States by instituting what the President has called "extreme vetting" of immigrants.

Trump says he might not like Putin once he gets to know him

President Donald Trump said Friday it was "too early" to start discussing lifting sanctions on Russia, whose leader he will speak with Saturday, though he indicated his interest in warmer ties.

Donald Trump and Theresa May: Another 'special relationship'?

Reagan and Thatcher. Bush and Blair. Obama and Cameron. And now? Trump and May.

PM takes rickshaw-van ride in Tungipara

The residents of Tungipara in Gopalganj saw a rare as well as unprecedented scenario in the late morning of the day when prime minister Sheikh Hasina on a local rickshaw-van along with her family members had a round-about visit at her ancestral village to see for herself the condition of the villagers side by side enjoying the natural beauty.