MPs bash govt for price hike, water-logging
Opposition lawmakers in parliament on Sunday flayed the government for failing to control the price hike of rice and other essential commodities and address water logging in Dhaka and Chittagong.
Khaleda for immediate arrest, punishment for Fakhrul's attackers
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday described the attack on the motorcade of her party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as ‘a proof that Awami League has been staging all the incidents of terrorism, chaos and anarchy in the country’.
Musa still trapped in PNG mountain
Bangladesh mountaineer Musa Ibrahim, along with two other Indian climbers, is still trapped at the base camp of Mount Carstensz Pyramid in Papua New Guinea as second rescue operation was called off due to bad weather early on Sunday.
Missing Fitzgerald sailors found dead in flooded compartments
All seven missing sailors from the USS Fitzgerald were found dead in flooded berthing compartments following the warship's collision with a merchant vessel, a US Navy official tells CNN.
Cuba to Trump: US in no 'condition to lecture us' on human rights
Responding to President Donald Trump's announcement Friday that he is reversing the Obama administration's steps to normalize relations with Cuba, the Castro government said the US is in no "condition to lecture us."
Cosby's silence at trial paid off
Bill Cosby's legal team made the right call not to have the comedian take the witness stand during his sexual assault trial, which ended Saturday in a mistrial.
London fire: May says support to families in aftermath not 'good enough'
British Prime Minister Theresa May said that support for families in the initial aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster "was not good enough" hours after she met Saturday with some local residents at 10 Downing Street.
People suffer amid traffic tangles
Illegal parking, people’s rush to shopping malls, water-logging and lack of law enforcement, all these have combined to render traffic in the capital into a complete chaos ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, leaving commuters to suffer terribly.
LANDSLIDES Affected people worried about future
Landslide-affected people in Rangamati, living at shelters or their relatives’ houses losing their homes, expressed on Saturday worries about their future.
Building Rampal plant despite concerns abuse of power: Sultana Kamal
Going ahead with implementing the controversial Rampal coal-fired power plant despite science-based concerns and widespread criticism was an abuse of power and corruption as well, said rights activist Sultana Kamal on Saturday.
