PM asks BGB to stay alert
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the BGB personnel to remain alert so that incident like the 2009 BDR mutiny would not recur in the future.
Teachers’ role important to end corporal punishment
A former adviser to a caretaker government Rashida K Chowdhury has said teachers’ positive role is important to reduce corporal punishment of schoolchildren.
BB relaxes banks’ capital market investment rules
Bangladesh Bank on Sunday relaxed the provision for scheduled banks’ investment in the capital market by excluding their equity investment in subsidiary companies in calculating the banks’ capital market exposure.
Alumni assoc of BSMMU’s endocrinology dept formed
Former students of endocrinology department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University formed an alumni association with Dr AKM Aminul Islam as its president and Dr Sharmin Jahan as general secretary.
Skills training for ethnic minorities for employment stressed
Rights activists on Sunday said that members of national minority communities, the female members of the communities in particular, living in the hills and the plains needed occupational skills training for employment.
First on CNN: Newly discovered hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration
A major breach at computer network company Juniper Networks has U.S. officials worried that hackers working for a foreign government were able to spy on the encrypted communications of the U.S. government and private companies for the past three years.
China complains about U.S. plane straying into disputed airspace
China is once again complaining that the United States violated its sovereign territory by coming near artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Donald Trump lavishes praise on 'leader' Putin
Donald Trump on Friday praised Vladimir Putin and appeared to defend the autocratic Russian president when pressed about his alleged killing of journalists and political opponents critical of his rule.
All schools shut down in Augusta County, Virginia, over Islam homework
After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.
Minor convicted in heinous Delhi gang rape to be freed
Outside the Delhi High Court on Friday, there were few clues that a momentous decision was underway in India's watershed gang rape case. Besides a small band of lawyers and journalists,
