PM flies to Kolkata today
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka in the morning today on a two-day visit to West Bengal at the invitation of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. She will inaugurate ‘Bangladesh Bhaban jointly with Narendra Modi at Visva Bharati and hold a meeting with him there.
Priyanka urges world to stick by Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Bollywood superstar and UNICEF international goodwill ambassador Priyanka Chopra on Thursday urged the global community to be compassionate and to donate money, time and energy to help the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Rohingya women and children living a miserable life in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
North Korea warns of nuclear showdown, calls Pence 'political dummy'
A North Korean official has lashed out at US Vice President Mike Pence and said Pyongyang is ready for a nuclear showdown if dialogue with the United States fails.
Trump administration wants more high-level talks with North Korea before summit
The Trump administration wants additional high-level talks with North Korea and assurances from Kim Jong Un that he is committed to giving up his nuclear program before next month's planned historic summit in order for the meeting to go ahead, a senior administration official involved in planning for the talks told CNN.
Kushner's security clearance restored, met with Mueller team a second time
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, had his White House security clearance restored Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter said, after months of uncertainty stemming in part from his role in the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
China 'disinvited' from major US military exercise over South China Sea
The US has withdrawn an invitation to China to participate in what has been described as the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
India stalls water sharing talks for eight years
India has kept talks on sharing of water of common rivers with Bangladesh stalled for over eight years holding back the signing of interim agreements on Teesta and Feni rivers and making negotiations on five more rivers uncertain.
Teesta unlikely to get priority
Signing of an interim agreement on sharing of Teesta River waters is unlikely go get prominence in the talks between Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her India counterpart Narendra Modi at Shantiniketan of West Bengal on Friday.
Eight more ‘drug peddlers’ killed
Eight more suspected drug peddlers were killed in reported incidents of ‘gunfight’ in Rangpur, Kushtia, Comilla, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Thakurgaon and Jamalpur early Wednesday as law enforcement agencies continued crackdown on drugs.
Khaleda now falls sick from insect bites in jail: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday claimed that the party’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia had fallen sick again, this time from insect bites in her prison cell.
