Quader terms BNP’s Vision 2030 ‘a farce’
The ruling Awami League on Wednesday rejected the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Vision 2030 which was announced earlier on the day by its chairperson Khaleda Zia in a city hotel.
South Korea votes to choose replacement for impeached Park
South Koreans head to the polls to choose a new president Tuesday amid concerns about the economy, corruption and their relationship with North Korea.
Sally Yates says she warned White House that Flynn was a blackmail risk
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said Monday that she alerted the White House earlier this year that former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn could be "essentially blackmailed by the Russians."
Wife of American detained in North Korea pleads for his release
On Saturday, Kim Mi-ok waited in a Chinese border city for her husband to step off the train from North Korea.
Erdogan slams treatment of Palestinians; Israel issues angry response
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday lashed out at Israel and urged more Muslims to visit the Temple Mount, or Noble Sanctuary, site in Jerusalem.
Family control over private banks to widen
The cabinet on Monday approved a draft bill seeking amendment to the Bank Companies Act 1991 to allow four from a family to be bank directors which, according to experts, would widen family control on private commercial banks.
PM swipes at CJ for his remarks about judiciary, rule of law
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday criticised chief justice SK Sinha for his claim that there is no rule of law in the country and that the judiciary is not independent.
ZIA ORPHANAGE TRUST CASE Khaleda’s self-defence hearing deferred to May 15
A special court here on Monday deferred till May 15 the hearing on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s self defence statement in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
LOWER COURT JUDGES’ DISCIPLINARY RULES SC extends deadline further
The government on Monday got time for one more week to publish the disciplinary rules for the lower court judges in the official gazette.
HAVOC IN HAOR Another face of ‘development’
IT HAS been more than one month that the haor areas are under water. Incessant rain coupled with surge of water from the hills in the bordering areas of the greater Sylhet region caused a flash flood.
