Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited Jatiya Oikyafront senior leaders to exchange greetings at Ganobhaban over tea on February 2. Separate invitation cards were sent to all the steering committee members of the alliance from…
CARACAS, Jan 25 2019 (IPS) – Venezuela entered a new and astonishing arena of political confrontation, with two presidents, Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó, leading the forces vying for power, while Venezuelans once again are taking to the streets to…
By Emma Ockerman Jan 26, 2019President Donald Trump went on national television, walked out of a meeting with key Congressional leaders, and incessantly tweeted, all to insist he wouldn’t reopen the government until he received $5.7 billion in funding for…
Washington, Jan 25 (AP/UNB) — Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in the special counsel’s Russia investigation in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home on Friday and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing…
Dhaka, Jan 25 – Terming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s address to the nation deceptive, BNP on Friday turned down her call for taking oath by MPs of the party to join the 11th parliament. “People’s verdict was not reflected in…
Dhaka, Jan 25 (UNB) – Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member Tofail Ahmed on Friday gave emphasis on holding elections to the students union of all the universities and colleges of the country. Tofail, a former vice-president of Dhaka University…
Dhaka, Jan 25 (UNB) – Stressing the need for a national unity forgetting all the differences to take the country forward, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said her government will root out corruption from the country through strict enforcement…
Gazipur, Jan 25 (UNB) – Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday urged the registered political parties to join all the upcoming elections including the upazila-level one. The Minister came up with the call while talking to reporters…
Dhaka, Jan 25 (UNB) – BNP has decided not to participate in the upcoming upazila election and the by-polls to the vacant mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed the decision…
From Danielle Nierenberg Greetings from Washington, D.C.! In the United States, this week marks the second missed paycheck for furloughed federal workers. Now on its 34th day, the shutdown’s effects are permeating beyond the lives of federal workers, as farmers,…
Dhaka, Jan 24 – Election Commission (EC) has appointed its observers and monitoring persons to closely oversee the parliamentary polls of Gaibandha-3 constituency scheduled on January 27. EC sources said the Commission on Wednesday appoint seven of its senior election…
Mymensingh, Jan 24 – The ruling party’s student organization Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) face allegation of seat business in the residential halls in the campus. Extreme seat crisis has arisen among the halls and the…
Dhaka, Jan 24 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation on Friday evening following the formation of her new government through the December-30 general election. State-owned Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television will simultaneously broadcast the Prime Minister’s…
Dhaka, Jan 24 – The government has no intention to spilt BNP as the party will face it due to its internal feud, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said after observing a signing ceremony to upgrade 190-km long…
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the government is conspiring to split their party. “Many plots are now going on to weaken BNP and split it. They (govt) also tried to do so in the…
Despite political instability being part of its DNA, Italy is still the ninth biggest economy in the world. Since 1946, when the first republican government took power, there have been 65 administrations over 72 years, or about one government every…
Dhaka, Jan 23 – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the lower court concerned to dispose of by February 4 the bail petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in Cumilla arson attack case that…
Sixty years ago, the sociologist WG Runciman published an influential study of attitudes to ’relative deprivation’ in 20th century England. Runciman sought to explain why at crucial periods in the past century, notably after the first world war and in…
According to a recent poll of aid agencies by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the most under-reported crisis of 2018 was the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, commented that, ‘the…
“I’ve never known a time when it was as bad as it is now,” says Beata Balogova, the Vice-Chair of the International Press Institute (IPI) and Editor in Chief of the Slovak Spectator Sme. “In terms of what’s going on…
The long-pending elections to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) and its hall unions will be held on March 11. Dhaka University (DU) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman announced the Ducsu election date on Wednesday. According to a…
Accusing Awami League of destroying the country’s election system, BNP on Wednesday urged opposition parties to forge a greater unity to force the government to hold a fresh election under a non-party administration. “Awami League has become the mass enemy…
The High Court on Wednesday asked the lower court concerned to dispose of the petition filed seeking bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia by February 4 in a case filed over killing of eight people in an arson attack on…
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq on Wednesday said a law will have to be formulated so that children of Jamaat leaders do not get government jobs. “Not only banning Jamaat organisationally, but also assets of its leaders will…
A royal decree for Thailand’s general election was issued on Wednesday to be followed by the announcement of the election date within the next five days.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said their government is not a party to movements of Rohingyas mentioning that it is aware of media reports of alleged movement into Bangladesh by some such persons.
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said his BNP counterpart Mirza Fakhrul has been talking deliriously since his party’s shameful defeat in the December-30 national election.
A writ has been filed challenging legality of the 17th amendment to the Constitution which extended the tenure of 50 parliamentary seats reserved exclusively for women for 25 years more.
The European left is going through a crisis. In an insightful article, ‘What happened to Europe’s left?’, Jan Rovny explains that the various political defeats of social-democratic parties—in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, the Czech Republic and Greece—stem from shifting their…
Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury on Tuesday told the BNP that the people of the country were expecting the party to act.