AL’s election preparations to begin from today’s meeting: Quader
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said his party will begin its preparations for the next parliament election from today’s extended meeting to be chaired by party chief Sheikh Hasina.
Land minister’s son among 11 arrested for vandalism
Police arrested Sirhan Sharif Tamal, son of land minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, and 10 others on early Friday in a case of vandalising a house and assaulting an elderly woman the previous evening at Shaheed Aminpara under Ishwardi upazila in Pabna.
Special counsel appointed in Russia probe
The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including potential collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign associates and Russian officials.
Putin offers transcript of Trump meeting with Lavrov
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to provide a transcript of a controversial Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, raising the stakes in an affair that has sent the White House into a tailspin.
Sharia court sentences gay men to public lashing in Indonesia
A Sharia court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province sentenced two gay men to a public caning Wednesday.
This is what Obama told his friend about Donald Trump
While President Donald Trump is embroiled in controversy -- with regularity -- Barack and Michelle Obama are enjoying a less-harried lifestyle these days, at least according to the cover story in the new issue of People magazine.
Chikungunya spreading
Mosquito-borne viral disease Chikungunya is spreading afresh in the capital with early rainfalls this year after a break of about five years.
23 to die for killing 4 AL activists
A Narayanganj court on Wednesday handed death sentence to 23 people including the then Araihazar thana unit BNP vice-president, now a local Awami League leader Abul Bashar Kashu for killing four AL activists of Jalakandi, Araihazar, Narayanganj on March 12, 2001.
RAPE IN BANANI HOTEL Another suspect Nayem Ashraf arrested
The police arrested accused of rape of two university students in Raintree hotel at Banani in Dhaka Nayem Ashraf alias Hasan Mohammad Halim at Lauhajang in Munshiganj on Wednesday evening.
People in no region would remain neglected: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said her government has been working with an aim to give opportunity for every people irrespective of their creed, colour and caste and none would remain neglected because of topographic feature of any area.
