The fourth high-level follow-up meeting of the Sustainability Compact was due to take place in Brussels yesterday to discuss issues related to labour rights in readymade garment and knitwear industries in Bangladesh. The meeting titled ‘Five Years after the Launch of the Sustainability Compact:…

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said migrants who "invade" the US should be deprived of legal due process, reinforcing his hardline stand despite an about-face on family separations that has seen more than 500 children reunited with relatives, reports AFP from Washington. Trying to stanch…

The government has carried out a reshuffle in the police administration by transferring 11 deputy inspectors general (DIGs) and additional deputy inspectors general yesterday. Among them, the DIG of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Md Lutfar Rahman Mandol, has been transferred as the DIG,…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday (Monday) fixed June 26 (today/Tuesday) for delivering its order on a leave to appeal petition filed by the government challenging the High Court (HC) order granting bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a vandalism case. The case was filed…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has addressed thousands of supporters in Ankara after being declared the victor in Turkey’s presidential election, saying democracy was the winner and that Turkey was “an example for the rest of the world”, reports The Guardian from Ankara. “We have received…