Boro paddy farmers have been busy transplanting saplings in northeastern Sylhet in a race to complete this phase of cultivation within January. An official at the Office of the Additional Director, DAE, Sylhet Region, said on Tuesday that farmers in non-haor region would finish the transplantation in a week while the phase has already been completed in the haor areas. ...

Venezuelan lawmakers on Thursday gave their initial backing to plans to throw open the oil sector to private investors, paving the way for the return of US energy majors — a key demand of President Donald Trump. Less than three weeks after the US ouster of Nicolas Maduro, MPs endorsed on first reading a bill allowing private companies to independently ...

Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has pledged to pursue justice-based development if his party comes to power, saying any future government formed by Jamaat would focus on realistic, fair and people-centred governance. Speaking to journalists on Friday at around 8:30am before departing Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for a tour of northern Bangladesh, Dr Rahman said Jamaat would not ...

Manchester United midfielder Casemiro will leave the Premier League side at the end of the season upon the expiry of his contract, the club said on Thursday. The 33-year-old does have a one-year extension option, but the club has chosen not to activate it according to a team source. United’s decision not to extend or renew his contract was made ...

Chief Adviser tells US ambassador Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said the 12 February general elections would set a benchmark for all future polls in Bangladesh. He made the remarks when the newly appointed US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Brent Christensen, paid his maiden courtesy call on the Chief Adviser at the State Guest House Jamuna here on Thursday, said ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved parliament on Friday ahead of a snap election on February 8, counting on her cabinet’s high poll numbers to steer her otherwise unpopular ruling party to victory. The country’s first woman premier had announced her intentions on Monday, seeking public backing for measures to shield households from rising living costs and increase spending on ...

The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the US and globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the UN health agency’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Donald Trump gave notice that the US would quit the organisation on the first day of ...

Ahead of the 13th National Parliamentary Election, BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman participated in election rallies across seven districts on Thursday. During his speeches at these rallies, he urged voters to cast their ballots for BNP by voting for the party’s symbol, the sheaf of paddy. After concluding the rallies, he returned to Dhaka on Friday morning. Earlier, on Thursday (22 ...

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has said that if the party forms the government, it will be able to work for the nation. “We will work and build the country – Bangladesh first,” he said while addressing an election rally in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj in the early hours of Friday. The rally was held at the Panchrukhi Begum Anowara Degree ...

Tower Hamlets councillors rejected calls to publicly discuss increasing concerns from ministers over the way it is being run after the Government stepped up its interventions in the borough. At a meeting on Wednesday night, councillors for the town hall’s ruling Aspire party voted down a motion from Labour to debate minister claims that the town hall’s “financial management and ...