NDTV: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday announced what promises to be the party's big pitch in the coming general election -- a guaranteed minimum income for the poor across the country, much like the system of social security in the US. The Congress announcement comes ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News: Billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said in a TV interview that he is looking into running against Donald Trump in 2020 as an independent presidential candidate. “I am seriously thinking of running for president,” Schultz told the CBS news show ...বিস্তারিত
BBC: At least 15 people were killed when a landslide crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in south-eastern Peru, officials say. The impact of the mud and rocks forced the building's walls and roof to cave in while guests were inside dancing. Twenty-nine people ...বিস্তারিত
Sky News: The search for survivors after a dam collapsed at a mine in Brazil has resumed after a second dam was ruled safe. Rescue crews were held off for several hours over fears the adjacent dam might also be breached. Residents have been allowed back into the town of Br ...বিস্তারিত
Hossain Sohel of DOT The Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples’ Network on Climate Change and Biodiversity (BIPNet-CCBD) has called upon the authorities concerned to step forward for the protection and development of all the country’s languages. BIPNet held a press conference ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: President Donald Trump expressed skepticism that U.S. lawmakers seeking to avoid another government shutdown could reach a deal on border security that he would accept, as he renewed his vow to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico. In an intervi ...বিস্তারিত
Raj Ahmed of DOT The High Court summoned the Director (law) of Anti-Corruption Commission and three other government officials to explain why one Jahlam was in jail custody for the last three years in place of the original accused in 33 cases, reported The Daily Star. They ...বিস্তারিত
Arafat Hasan of DOT A Dhaka court has sentenced two convicts to jail after they surrendered before it in connection with a case filed over the August 21 grenade attack 15 years ago, reported The Daily Star. The two convicts, then deputy commissioner (East) of Dhaka Metropo ...বিস্তারিত
Metro, UK: Plans to introduce a martial law to prevent unrest in the event of a chaotic no-deal Brexit are being looked at by the country’s top planners. The civil service are ‘prepping’ for all possibilities including putting troops on the streets of UK cities to stop ...বিস্তারিত
Straits Times: The trial of two women accused of murdering the North Korean leader's half-brother Kim Jong Nam was adjourned on Monday (Jan 28) until March, and the case will now drag on until at least mid-2019. Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from V ...বিস্তারিত