All but BCL boycott DUCSU polls, call strike for Tuesday
All the student organisations at Dhaka University, except Bangladesh Chhatra League, announce boycott of Dhaka University Central Students' Union elections midway terming it a farce.
Hasina, Modi jointly inaugurate four projects in Bangladesh
The prime ministers of Bangladesh and India on Monday jointly inaugurated four projects in Bangladesh, including the supply of 1,100 buses and trucks to Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation.
India to go to polls from April 11
India will hold a general election in seven stages starting on April 11, the election commission said on Sunday, in what will be the world’s biggest democratic exercise with prime minister Narendra Modi likely to benefit from tension with Pakistan.
Long wait for DUCSU polls ends today
The much-awaited elections to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union and hall students’ unions are going to be held today after a gap of 28 years.
Dhaka signed no deal with Riyadh for troop deployment: FM
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday informed the parliament that Bangladesh did not sign any agreement with Saudi Arabia over troop deployment as it had only inked a memorandum of understand on defence cooperation.
Ethiopian Airlines flight crashes with 157 aboard
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed Sunday morning en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi with 149 passengers and eight crew believed to be on board, Ethiopian Airlines said, as Ethiopia’s prime minister offered condolences to victims’ families.
Khaleda declines to get admitted to BSMMU
Although all preparations were taken, Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia was not taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Sunday for treatment as she expressed her unwillingness to go there.
UZ Polls: Voting suspended at three centres, two officials held
Voting in three polling centres of Sirajganj and Habiganj was suspended on Sunday over allegations of irregularities and snatching of ballot papers.
Obaidul talking normally: physician
Ailing road, transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader is now talking normally to family members and physicians as his condition is improving gradually. /
Monarchy, democracy, oligarchy, mafia… or authoritarianism
GIVEN increasingly serious accusations against President Trump, Americans have been mystified by the reluctance of the Democrats now in control of the House, to initiate impeachment
