Trump signs executive order on Obamacare; enacts regulatory freeze
Within hours of taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump on Friday night signed an executive order aimed at trying to fulfill one of his most impassioned campaign promises: Rolling back Obamacare.
Trump puts freeze on new regulations
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus issued a memorandum Friday night to all executive departments and agencies to freeze new or pending regulations -- giving the new administration time to review them.
Hillary Clinton's gut-wrenching day
It was not the Inauguration Day that Hillary Clinton imagined.
Reports: ISIS destroys facade of Roman theater in Syrian city of Palmyra
ISIS fighters have destroyed part of the historic Roman amphitheater in the ancient city of Palmyra.
President to sit with VCs soon
President Abdul Hamid will sit with vice-chancellors of all public universities soon as part of an initiative to introduce a unified admission test system for all universities.
PM leaves Zurich for home
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina left Zurich for Dhaka on Friday wrapping up her five-day official visit to Switzerland where she attended the 47th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.
HRW repeats call to disband RAB
New York-based rights organisation Human Rights Watch on Friday reiterated its call on Bangladesh government to disband the Rapid Action Battalion and replace it with a ‘rights respecting force.’
BNP to wage movement if partisan EC formed
Bangladesh Nationalist Party is preparing for taking to the streets fearing that a ‘unilateral’ Election Commission might be constituted as per the desire of the ruling Awami League, party leaders said.
Ongoing refugee influx forces authorities to extend census
The large number of Rohingya refugees who recently entered Bangladesh fleeing ethnic persecution in their home country Myanmar has forced the authorities to extend its ongoing census of the refugees.
Obama's parting words: 'We're going to be OK'
Barack Obama used his departing words as President Wednesday to offer an assured -- if not entirely optimistic -- outlook for a country governed by Donald Trump.
