Dr. Salahuddin Ahmed, Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank : There is no need to create a ruckus on whether GDP is growing. Whether or not the government does anything, the people will definitely do something about it. Besides, everyone has not yet become self-reliant. The pove ...বিস্তারিত
The Guardian, UK: Emmanuel Macron has appealed to his fellow European leaders to maintain their tough approach to Brexit in response to Theresa May’s demand for compromise and accusations that the French president wants to make Britain suffer. Macron, who is f ...বিস্তারিত
BSS: The State-Owned Manufacturing Industries Workers (Conditions of Service) Bill, 2018 was passed in the parliament with a view to implementing the recommendations placed by the National Wage and Productivity Commission (NWPC). State Minister for Labour and ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: A Dhaka court yesterday placed BNP Joint Secretary General Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel on a five-day remand in connection with a case filed over attacking a prison van near High Court area and snatching accused in January this year, reports the daily star. Dhaka Me ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: More than a quarter of a million people will vote on Sunday for the next leader of the tropical Maldives in an election criticized internationally for a lack of transparency and suppression of government critics. President Abdulla Yameen is seeking a second five-ye ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Police in Malaysia are investigating a case of alcohol poisoning that killed at least 21 people, with dozens more hospitalised, most of them citizens of Asian nations, officials said on Wednesday. Cheap, homemade liquor is popular among poor, migrant work ...বিস্তারিত
The Guardian, UK: Women’s associations fear legal changes by Italy’s populist government could have severe consequences for victims of domestic abuse. The overriding worry is a proposal in the joint contract of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and far-rig ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Texas cattle rancher Bill Martin is a lifelong Republican who owns more than 20 firearms and has been shooting guns since the age of 6. He is now considering the once-unthinkable: voting for a Democratic Senate candidate who wants tougher gun laws. Martin, 72, has ...বিস্তারিত
AP: One of Europe’s main solutions to migration — Greece’s overcrowded, unsanitary Moria migrant camp — has suicidal children and conditions that a psychiatrist compared to “an old-fashioned mental asylum.” In another heavily criticized solution to immigration, ...বিস্তারিত
The Guardian, UK: Bobi Wine, the Ugandan pop star turned opposition politician whose beating by soldiers last month prompted mass protests, has said he will return home on Thursday to prove that the “power of the people is greater than the people in power”. Wine, whose ...বিস্তারিত