Every right of every migrant of the world will have to be ensured, global experts said yesterday, placing great emphasis on an action-oriented universal governance system to ensure that. Speaking on the first day of the ninth summit on Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) at the  Bangabandhu…

Central leaders of the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are currently staying in Narayanganj for mobilising voters in favour of their candidates for the City Corporation elections slated for December 22. It is a prestige fight for the AL to retain the mayoral post, and the…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her desire to visit India in the first half of February next, reports BSS. The premier expressed the desire when Indian Minister of State for External Affairs M. J. Akbar paid a courtesy call on her at her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka yesterday afternoon.…

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has urged the government to abolish Articles 116 and 116(A) of the Constitution, as the judiciary faces problems to establish the rule of law because of these articles. Article 116 empowers the President to "control and discipline subordinate courts" in consultation…

A secret CIA assessment has found that Russia sought to tip last month’s US presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor, The Washington Post reported Friday, a conclusion that drew an extraordinary rebuke from the president-elect’s camp, reports AFP from Washington. “These…

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police yesterday claimed that they have found the involvement of 23 foreigners in the $ 101-million cyber heist from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the US Federal Reserve Bank, reports UNB. “We’ve identified 23 foreigners who collected…