Anti-Duterte senator removed from committee investigating killings
A longtime critic of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been ousted as the head of a committee investigating hundreds of extrajudicial killings during Duterte's ongoing war on drugs.
National security moves to the top of 2016 campaign
Six days before the crucial first presidential debate, Donald Trump is using a spate of bombings and stabbings to build an interlocking argument on two issues where he thinks tough talk gives him a winning hand -- immigration and terrorism.
PM for unhindered global movement of all factors of production
Mentioning five aspects of migration governance, including securing rights of migrants in all situations irrespective of their status, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said goods, services and all factors of production needed to move unhindered in a connected world.
Members of anti-militancy committees harassing BNP activists: Nazrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Monday alleged that the ‘administrative committees’, formed by the government with ruling party men, to resist militancy are harassing opposition leaders and activists.
It’s next to impossible to make politicians, influentials obey law: OQ
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said that it was next to impossible to make politicians and influential people go by law.
BB reserve theft: PH court orders return of $15.25m to B’desh
A Philippine court on Monday ordered Philippine central bank – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas – to return to the Bangladesh Bank $15.25 million recovered so far out of $81 million stolen from the latter’s reserve account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February.
MP Rana shifted to Kashimpur jail
Ruling Awami League lawmaker for Tangail 3 constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana was shifted to Kashimpur jail in Gazipur on Monday.
PM reaches NY to join UN General Assembly
The prime minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in New York from Montreal, Canada to attend 71st UN General Assembly.
Eight killed in road accidents
At least eight people including three women were killed while 51 others injured in separate road accidents in Munshiganj, Bogra and Magura on Monday.
New York bombing: Investigators search for suspects, motive
A day after a bombing injured 29 people in a New York City neighborhood, surveillance videos show the same man near the site of the explosion and another location where a pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away, multiple local and federal law enforcement sources told CNN.
