Editors’ Council warns protests to continue if talks fail
Editors’ Council has postponed its human chain, scheduled for Saturday protesting against the passage of the Digital Security Bill, accepting information minister Hasanul Haq Inu’s request for talks on Sunday.
PM receives two international awards for hosting Rohingyas
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has received two international awards — the IPS International Achievement Award and the 2018 Special Distinction Award for Leadership — for her humanitarian and responsible policy in hosting the Rohingyas and for her farsighted leadership over the Rohingya issue respectively.
Vladimir Putin is not invincible
Russian President Vladimir Putin may stride confidently on the world stage. But not all looks rosy for him at home.
Heads of state, int’l agencies expect Hasina to win next election: FS
Heads of state and different international agencies hoped that prime minister Sheikh Hasina would form the government again winning the next general election for the continuity of development and democracy.
Kavanaugh denies two additional accusations to Senate Judiciary Committee
Republican investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two new allegations against him, according to a transcript of a conference call released by the committee.
Trump says China is interfering in midterm elections
President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that China is working to interfere in November's midterm elections with the aim of damaging him politically.
PM seeks peacekeeping reform to make it more fit for purpose
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the importance of UN peacekeeping reform with adequate authorisation of peacekeepers and making them better equipped as they are facing growing unconventional threats from non-state actors.
WB for peaceful general election
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said that the World Bank wanted the next general election to be held peacefully so that its relation with Bangladesh was not disturbed.
BNP to announce next course of action from Sept 29 rally: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the party’s future course of actions would be disclosed in its rally in Dhaka on September 29.
Iran can afford to play a waiting game with Donald Trump
Not long after the rest of the world had openly laughed at his boss as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, US National Security Advisor John Bolton mustered his best Jacobean menace on Tuesday.
