BNP, allies to launch movement to free Khaleda
The leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance decided to launch a movement with all the parties forging separate programmes to demand the release of the jailed BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Parks in Beijing want to blacklist 'uncivilized' visitors
Tourism authorities in Beijing said they are considering creating a blacklist of "uncivilized visitors" in order to curb bad behavior by visitors, as the city is inundated with tourists for Tomb Sweeping Festival.
Trump says DHS Secretary Nielsen leaving
Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security who has become a face of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration push, is leaving the administration, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Sunday afternoon.
INDIA’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN Modi, Mamata trade fire
A war of words erupted between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Mamata Banerjee during campaigning in north Bengal on the last Sunday before the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Bengal on April 11, reports Hindustan Times.
A challenging text: on the Congress manifesto
MANIFESTOS are generally acts of defiance and hope, which combine wishful thinking with critique. Manifestos have created world views and lived on as political and literary classics.
Rohingya youths might be exploited by vested quarters: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday feared that vested quarters might exploit the frustrated Rohingya youths to materialise their ill motive.
7 hurt on CU campus as BCL activists clash with cops
At least seven were injured including police during a clash between the ruling party’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra League and police at Chittagong University campus on Sunday morning.
CUMILLA ARSON CASE AD upholds Khaleda’s bail
The Appellate Division on Sunday dismissed a government’s petition seeking stay on the bail granted to former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case of arson attack on a bus at Chauddagram, Cumilla in February 2015.
Kamal refutes US security alert for Bangladesh
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday refuted the US security alert saying Bangladesh does not pose any security risk to anyone.
Deadlock continues at Barishal Univ
Barishal University students on Sunday denied withdrawing their agitation programmes without written assurance from the authorities concerned about the decisions, including sending vice-chancellor on leave, taken in a tripartite meeting on Saturday afternoon.
