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.
BNP says partisan, AL claims neutral
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said that the ‘controversial’ search committee could never form a neutral Election Commission while the ruling Awami League urged its key political opponent to keep confidence in the president.
Pvt univs unmoved amid deadlines
Most of the private universities display complete disregard for the law requiring them to have permanent campuses in seven
No case recorded against cops
No case was filed till Friday night against police officials for torturing two journalists of private television channel ATN News on Thursday when they were filming cops’ action against protesters against Rampal power plant project during general strike.
BNP accuses govt of giving ‘bond’ to India over Rampal project
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the government was desperate to implement the Rampal power plant project near the Sunderbans as it gave India a ‘bond’ to execute it.
