Quota for FFs, their children, grandchildren to stay: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the quota system in government jobs for freedom fighters, their children and grandchildren will continue.
Justice comes late, after 31 years
Now fifty five years old, with his beard gone all grey, poor farmer Abdul Kader, whose case involving smuggling remained buried in piles of pending cases for 31 years, was acquitted by the High Court on Wednesday
Move to bring Dhaka buses under six cos stalls
An initiative to rationalise the bus routes and bring all public buses and minibuses under few companies has remained stalled since the death of Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Annisul Huq who had taken up the move.
Mark Zuckerberg has regrets: 'I'm really sorry that this happened'
Mark Zuckerberg has regrets. "I'm really sorry that this happened," the Facebook (FB) CEO told CNN's Laurie Segall in an exclusive TV interview on Wednesday.
Trump furious over leak of warning to not congratulate Putin
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly instructed by his national security advisers in briefing materials not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent election victory during their call Tuesday morning
Why Trump's tariffs on China are a big deal
Main Street and Wall Street are bracing as the United States prepares to levy more tariffs on China.President Trump is expected to announce more taxes, or tariffs, on Chinese goods coming into the United States. He is expected to announce the tariffs on China Thursday, according to an administration official.
What we know about the Austin serial bomber
(CNN)Mark Anthony Conditt's family said they home-schooled him and worked hard to raise him right. But authorities said he was a "very challenged young man," who confessed to building and setting off a series of bombs that terrorized central Texas for three weeks.
Police: Austin bomber left 25-minute confession video on phone
Austin, Texas (CNN)As the Austin bomber sensed that authorities were closing in on him on Tuesday night, he took out his cell phone and recorded a 25-minute video confessing to building the explosive devices
ACC to appeal for increasing Khaleda’s jail term
The Anti-Corruption Commission said Tuesday that it would appeal in the High Court Division to increase the jail term of former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust case.
BNP hires British lawyer Carlile for Khaleda
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has appointed British lawyer Lord Carlile for providing legal assistance to the lawyers of party chairperson Khaleda Zia in all cases. At a briefing at the party’s central office on Tuesday, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said
