Early Thursday, immigration attorneys in Los Angeles started getting calls from clients across the city. Some callers reported being picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at their homes. Others were caught at their workplaces, including one man…
(CNN)North Korea says it has successfully completed the launch of a new ballistic missile, according to state media. The Pukguksong-2, previously unpublicized part of its arsenal which North Korean state media described as a medium long-range ballistic missile, was test…
Geneva, (Kanaga Raja) — The Trade and Development Board of UNCTAD on Monday held a discussion on the Least Developed Countries Report 2016 which amongst others had argued that graduation of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is “not the winning…
Dhaka, Feb 12 – Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar is likely to be here on February 23 to discuss issues of mutual interest with special focus on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s next visit to New Delhi.
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has started working to find out reasons behind the downturn in the inflow of remittances, said governor Fazle Kabir. “Two research teams of the central bank will soon visit Malaysia and Middle Eastern countries to find out…
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq today called upon all who got victimized by the false allegation of graft in Padma Bridge Project to file case against the World Bank. “After the recent verdict of Canadian court, it…
Bangladesh and India have finalised dozens of draft documents — deals and MoUs — to take into consideration for signing during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s expected bilateral visit to New Delhi to strengthen ties between the two countries in key…
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korea’s military says, in the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president.
Dhaka, Feb 11 – Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday alleged that BNP is trying to make the new Election Commission (EC) controversial apprehending a debacle in the next general election like Narayanganj city polls.
Manila, Feb 11 (XINHUA) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rattled a southern Philippine city on Friday night has risen to at least 15, an official said on Saturday.
Dhaka, Feb 10 – The British, Canadian and Australian high commissioners in Dhaka have been left shaken by harrowing tales of violence and suffering they heard from Rohingya refugees in a registered camp in Kutupalong of Cox’s Bazaar.
A statue of five young children, gathered around their suitcases and looking a little lost, sits outside London’s Liverpool Street Station. It’s a gift to the people of Britain on behalf of the children of Kindertransport, the rescue effort that…
Kurigram, Feb 10 – A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Datbhanga border in Roumari upazila early Friday.
Federal appeals court unanimously votes against reinstatement of immigration ban Keegan Hamilton on Feb 9, 2017 A federal appeals court declined to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries on Thursday, potentially setting the stage for…
Abu Raihan MuammedKhalid This is a story of the most unfortunate people of our time. Their own country rejects them. The country they came in denies them. This is a story of the Rohingya refugees living in Kutupalong Refugee Camp…
Dhaka – IslandLife was good to Barack Obama.Before returning to Washington, the former president dove into an aquatic and athletic challenge with his friend, Virgin Group founder and billionaire Richard Branson, while vacationing on the British Virgin Islands with former…
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat on Thursday said they need to know a lot more details about government’s proposal to relocate Rohingyas to Hatiya. “We asked lot of questions about the proposal because we are asked to support the…
The Bangladeshi government should immediately drop its plan to transfer Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited, undeveloped coastal island, Human Rights Watch said today. Relocating the refugees from the Cox’s Bazar area to Thengar Char island would deprive them of their…
More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported.
Usage of highly effective, long-lasting birth control has jumped after Donald Trump’s victory in the November presidential election, as American women consider what a Republican effort to reverse the Affordable Care Act could mean for access to intrauterine devices (IUDs)…
Bangladesh has “strongly” protested the Myanmar border police’s firing on a fishing boat in the Naf river that killed one fisherman and injured another.The foreign ministry on Wednesday said they protested the “act of aggression” in a diplomatic note sent…
Noting that terrorism is the greatest enemy of mankind and civilisation, President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday called upon the leaders of Asia Pacific Region to build a united resistance against it for attaining continued peace, prosperity and development. “Extremism and…
Al-Shabab fighters stormed a hotel in the capital of the semi-autonomous Puntland region killing four guards, while two of the attackers also died, a senior Somali official said. The attack occurred in the port city of Bosasso early on Wednesday,…
(CNN)Days after a raid on an al Qaeda compound in Yemen led to the first US military combat death under Donald Trump, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released an audio message taunting the new American President.
An appeals court has questioned whether President Donald Trump’s travel ban discriminates against Muslims. The executive order temporarily banned entry for all refugees and visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries, until it was halted last week.
Dhaka, Feb 7 – Voicing frustration over the ‘quick’ formation of the Election Commission (EC) from the search body’s proposed names, BNP on Tuesday night said the Prime Minister’s choice has been reflected in it. Speaking at a press conference,…
Dhaka — A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his car and in his monastery, police said Tuesday. Officer Maung Maung Yin said the monk was stopped Sunday as…
Foreign Minister Mr. A H Mahmood Ali, MP, briefed the members of the diplomatic community on the situation of Myanmar refugees and undocumented Myanmar nationals at the State Guest House Padma today. About 60 (sixty) Ambassadors/High Commissioners / Heads of…
The United Nations’ Mideast envoy on Tuesday said a new Israeli law legalizing dozens of unlawful West Bank settler outposts crossed a “very thick red line,” while Israeli rights groups said they would fight to overturn the measure in the…
Bangladesh has urged Bimstec member states to conclude the Bimstec Free Trade Area (FTA) negotiations as early as possible. Bangladesh conveyed its position at the seventeenth session of the Bimstec Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) held on Tuesday in Kathmandu, Nepal…