Hong Kong extradition law: What happens next?
Hong Kong's government has blinked. The city's leader Carrie Lam announced Saturday she was suspending a controversial extradition bill after mass protests and sustained opposition from multiple sectors of society.
New York Times: US ramping up cyber attacks on Russia
The US is escalating cyber attacks on Russia's electric power grid and has placed potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Is US on a major about-turn on Iran?
IN MAY 2018, more than a year ago, when the US threw the hard-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran out of the window of the Oval office, it did not come as a surprise, for Donald Trump was only
Sunderbans’ ecology, status under threat
International Union for Conservation of Nature known as IUCN, the official advisor on natural world heritage to UNESCO, has recommended for inclusion of Sunderbans on UNESCO’s ‘world heritage in danger’ list.
Rain brings misery to Ctg residents
Rain brought misery to the residents of Chattogram city on the first day of monsoon on Saturday with light showers of thirty minutes and thunderbolts.
Nothing negative in proposed budget: Obaidul
Terming the proposed budget for 2019-20 fiscal year a pro-people and positive one, ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said that there was nothing negative in it.
Looters would enjoy extra facilities amid less accountability
Gono Samhati Andolan on Saturday said that looters have been given various facilities in the proposed budget as the structure of the government itself was non-accountable.
Border killings ‘unfortunate deaths’: BSF
The Indian border guard’s new director general Rajni Kant Mishra called the killings along the Bangladesh-India border as ‘unfortunate deaths’ inside India during ‘skirmishes’ between miscreants and the border force.
I didn’t hack anything : Assange
The full extradition hearing to decide whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be sent to the United States to face accusations including spying charges will take place in February next year, a London court ruled on Friday.
Bangladesh elected ECOSOC member
Bangladesh has been elected a member of the prestigious Economic and Social Council of the United Nations for the term 2020-2022 from the Asia-Pacific region by securing 181 votes out of 191.
