Minister Fumio Kishida is likely to arrive here on Friday on a three-day visit to hold talks for promoting bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Kishida plans to hold talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood…
Head of Delegation of European Union (EU) to Bangladesh Ambassador William Hanna has visited Sylhet division to see the progress of a number of EU-funded projects in the region. The three-day visit, from March 17, covered an array of projects…
While in the West World War II turned into the Cold War in the late 1940s and history ended after 1991, across the iron curtain in the Soviet block the period of the Cold War was more akin to an…
Frustration with the search for missing flight MH370 boiled over into chaotic scenes as Chinese relatives were dragged away from journalists.
Ukraine’s breakaway region of Crimea will ask Tatars to vacate part of the land where they now live in exchange for new territory elsewhere in the region, a top Crimean government official said Tuesday.
Pro-Russian activists, some of them armed, have stormed the headquarters of the Ukrainian navy in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Russian flags have been seen flying from buildings and several Ukrainian servicemen were seen leaving the base. It comes a…
Norway wants to sign an agreement with Bangladesh to send back illegal Bangladeshi nationals who seek political asylum in that country, Law Minister Anisul Haq said on Tuesday. The subject was raised by Norwegian Ambassador in Dhaka Merete Lundemo during…
President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea have signed a bill to absorb the peninsula into Russia.
A bill was placed in Parliament on Tuesday with a proposal to provide judges of the Supreme Court monthly special allowances. Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Anisul Huq placed the bill titled Supreme Court Judges (Remuneration and Privileges)…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree recognising Crimea as a sovereign state, paving the way for it to be absorbed into Russia. The decree said it had taken into account Sunday’s referendum in Crimea, in which officials said…
China has started searching its territory within the northern corridor for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, state media report. The international search for the plane has extended into two vast air corridors, north and south of the plane’s last known…
The 94th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed across the country on Monday as the National Children’s Day. The day was a public holiday. On March 17, 1920, the architect of the nation was born at Tungipara…
Echoing Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Monday said elections to all the local bodies should be held on partisan basis like that of parliament. “No non-partisan election is held in the…
Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Monday observed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is not still safe. “Sheikh Hasina is always gripped by fear of death. The anti-liberation forces have always been engaged in a plot to kill Sheikh Hasina…
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the aircraft’s crew were involved in its disappearance.
The moves follow Sunday’s referendum in Crimea, in which officials say 97% of voters backed breaking away from Ukraine and joining Russia.
Some 25 countries are now involved in a vast search operation for the missing airliner that disappeared over a week ago, Malaysian officials say.
Crimea is voting on whether to rejoin Russia or stay with Ukraine but with more autonomy. The referendum has been condemned as “illegal” by Kiev and the West but is backed by Moscow. Since the fall of Ukraine’s pro-Moscow President…
In an interview to the ‘Telegraph’, Kolkata’s leading English daily, Khaleda has asked India to stop supporting the ‘illegal government’ of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “India, which has a long and proud history of democracy, should stand on the side…
Jhenaidah – Ain O Shalish Kendra executive director, ex advisor to the caretaker government Advocate Sultana Kamal has said, “extrajudicial killings widely known as crossfire to the law enforcing ageniies are one of the most formidable barriers to the establishment…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called for united efforts at making the country economically self-reliant in fulfilling the dream of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She made the appeal while delivering her speech at a seminar titled ‘Speech of March…
Two frigates and two maritime patrol aircraft of Bangladesh Navy have been deployed in the Bay of Bengal and its adjoining areas as part of search operation for the missing Malaysian aircraft. The move came at the directive of the…
Thousands of people are attending a rally in the Russian capital Moscow to oppose its intervention in Ukraine a day before the region of Crimea votes to secede in favour of joining Russia.
Six Egyptian soldiers have been killed by gunmen at a checkpoint in the northern Cairo suburb of Shubra al-Khayma, state media reports.
The communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has said. According to satellite and radar evidence, he said, the plane then changed course and could have continued flying for a further…
President Abdul Hamid on Friday called upon people from all walks of life to actively cooperate with the government in a bid to ensure country’s overall development. “Development is an ongoing process. The government’s responsibility is to ensure a development-friendly…
Bangladesh is going to assist the international community in tracing the Malaysian missing aircraft from Saturday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday directed the authorities concerned to assist the international community in the search operation for the missing Malaysian plane,…
US Secretary of State John Kerry is holding talks on Ukraine with his Russian counterpart in London, in an attempt to defuse tensions two days before a disputed referendum in Crimea.
The US has sent surveillance teams to the Indian Ocean to help search for the missing Malaysian plane, after claims emerged that it may have flown for longer than investigators had thought. Unnamed officials said the plane sent signals to…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has collected some information on money laundering by some former ministers of the BNP-Jamaat led government, says Commissioner M Sahabuddin Chuppu. “The commission has received specific information on money laundering by about four or five BNP…