India's Rahul Gandhi takes on the Modi juggernaut
He is the heir apparent to India's most powerful political dynasty. But over the next few months, Rahul Gandhi will face an uphill battle in the country's general election campaign.
Bangladesh salutes heroes
The nation celebrates the 49th Independence Day today with patriotic fervour and paying homage to the freedom fighters who made supreme sacrifice for the independence and sovereignty of the country.
AL, rebels bag most upazilas amid low turnout
Candidates of the ruling Awami League secured the chairman posts in 83 upazilas in the third phase of the upazila parishad elections while independent candidates including AL rebels were elected chairman at 38 upazilas and a Jatiya Party candidate was elected at one upazila.
Coaching centres to remain shut April 1-May 6
All coaching centres across the country will remain closed for over a month starting from April 1, as the Higher Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations is slated to begin on that day.
Bangladesh observes Genocide Day
Many parts of Bangladesh went dark for a minute from 9:00pm on Monday as the nations observed the Genocide Day, recalling the beginning of the genocide that the Pakistan military committed
Mueller report marks Trump’s political victory
US special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between president Donald Trump’s election team and Russia in the 2016 election but left unresolved the question of whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice by undermining investigations that have dogged his presidency.
Royal commission inquiry into Christchurch attack: NZ PM
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday a royal commission inquiry into the events leading up to a March 15 attack on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 people, including into the country’s intelligence services.
DEATH OF SAU STUDENT Students continue protests in Sylhet, boycott class, exam
Sylhet Agricultural University students on Sunday continued protests in Sylhet city and announced boycott of academic activities for three days from Sunday protesting at killing of their fellow Md Wasim Afnan pushing off a bus by its staff on Saturday.
Bangladesh recalls today horror of March 25
The nation will stage a one-minute blackout tonight marking the Genocide Day recalling the horror of one of the worst genocide in modern history committed by the Pakistan occupation army against unarmed people of Bangladesh on the night of March 25, 1971 and afterwards.
Teachers outside MPO coverage postpone protests for a month
After holding nonstop sit-in for four days to press the demand for getting monthly pay order, better known as MPO, under which the government pays salaries and other benefits, hundreds of teachers and employees of non-government schools, colleges, technical institutions and
