PM pays homage to Sheikh Mujib on Mujibnagar Day
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday paid tributes to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of Bangladesh, on the occasion of historic Mujibnagar Day.
Inside Changi Airport Singapore's new 'Jewel,' home to world's tallest indoor waterfall
Following four years of construction and nonstop media coverage, Singapore's long-awaited Jewel Changi Airport is officially open.
Trump anticipates Mueller's vindication but aides fret about his temper
In President Donald Trump's mind, the release this week of Robert Mueller's findings is a moment to mark his long-proclaimed innocence. In the minds of some current and former White House officials, the moment isn't quite as rosy.
The ordeal of Julian Assange
THE scenes of six Metropolitan police officers dragging Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London as he was clutching a copy of History of the National Security State by Gore Vidal have sent shockwaves of horror and an avalanche of condemnation from all around the world.
Cloud of accountability in Sri Lanka
THE cloud of accountability that has dogged Sri Lanka since the end of the war has begun to spread. There was warning of this reality when the UN human rights commissioner in her March 2019 report on Sri Lanka made a recommendation that the international community should use the
Diarrhoea cases surge in capital
There has been an unusual surge in the number of diarrhoea patients in and around Bangladesh capital Dhaka at the very outset of this summer.
River route workers agree to join work after daylong strike
Bangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation on early Wednesday postponed for 45 days work abstention of waterway workers that caused sufferings to hundreds of passengers and business people and hampered export and import through sea ports on Tuesday.
Eminent citizens ask govt to bring ex-OC Moazzem to book
Eminent citizens of the country have demanded immediate government actions against former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi police station Moazzem Hossain of Feni for his alleged breach of job rules and committing criminal offences over the case on sexual assault and fire attack on the deceased madrassah girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi.
BNP trashes reports on Khaleda’s release on parole
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday termed ‘baseless’ different media reports on their chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release on parole saying that there had been no decision yet in this regard.
Actor Ferdous to return to Bangladesh as India revokes visa
Bangladeshi film actor Ferdous Ahmed’s visa has been revoked by the Indian authorities allegedly for campaigning for the Trinamool Congress for the upcoming Loko Shabha election, scheduled on April 18.
