US President Barack Obama has asked the Pentagon for more options on troop levels in Afghanistan including sending less than the roughly 40,000 new soldiers requested, The Washington Post said yesterday. [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to take appropriate action against the owner of a garment factory in Tongi following yesterday’s violent incidents over nonpayment of monthly salaries.The Prime Minister asked the Home Ministry to take immediate action against the owner of the garment factory as nonpayment of monthly salaries [...]

Staff Reporter
The independent judiciary enters into the third year of its functioning today. The caretaker government on this day in 2007 separated judiciary from the executive.Law adviser of the erstwhile caretaker government Barrister Mainul Hosein played the key role in implementing the long awaited demand of the nation, as successive political governments earlier had [...]

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In the election to elect four countries from Asia region, a total of 188 countries cast their votes and Bangladesh got elected securing 185 votes, highest secured by any country, says a press release of Bangladesh’s mission in New York. [Read more]

Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah is likely to pull out of next week’s presidential runoff, a person with knowledge of the talks said Friday. [Read more]

Syful Islam, New Delhi
South Asian countries including Bangladesh will face climate catastrophe shortly as Himalayan glaciers are melting rapidly, apprehended scientists of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Birla Institute of Technology (BIT).Launching a report yesterday titled ‘Witnessing change: Glaciers in the Indian Himalayas’ they also said that small glaciers are melting quickly and [...]

Staff Reporter
The United States wants to see Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) work independently remaining free from any control.US Ambassador James F Moriarty said this while talking to reporters after meeting with ACC Chairman Ghulam Rahman at his office on Thursday.Asked to comment on the reported government move to bring amendment to the law to take ACC [...]

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