Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin today said the trade between Bangladesh and India will continue in the interest of the consumers and the businesses of both countries. “We don’t know anything officially about India’s steps yet. Once we do, we will take appropriate steps. If any issue arises, both sides will work to resolve those through discussions,” he said while talking to reporters at the Secretariat in the city about India’s decision on importing goods from Bangladesh. Referring to media reports, he said they have learned from social media and media outlets that India has taken certain decisions affecting specific…
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US President Donald Trump will hold a phone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday as part of his long-running effort to end the war set off by Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Trump had vowed during the US election campaign to halt the conflict within a day of taking office, but his diplomatic efforts have so far yielded little progress. Delegations from Russia and Ukraine held direct negotiations in Istanbul last week for the first time in almost three years, but the talks ended without a commitment to a ceasefire. Both sides traded insults, with Ukraine accusing Moscow of…
A mega-bill central to US President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda cleared a key hurdle Sunday, progressing out of the House Budget Committee after several lawmakers holding up the legislation dropped their opposition. Trump is pushing to usher into law his so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill” pairing an extension of his first-term tax cuts with savings that will see millions of the poorest Americans lose their health coverage. But sharp divisions in the Republican Party have slowed the legislative process in Congress, with conservatives angling for much deeper cuts and moderates worried about threats to healthcare. House Speaker Mike Johnson spent…
National Consensus Commission Vice-chairman Professor Ali Riaz today said the commission wants to move towards a national charter by establishing a consensus as soon as possible. He said this at the beginning of the extended meeting with Jamaat-e-Islami at the LD Hall of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) here, said a commission release. He said the commission will conclude the initial stage of discussions with the political parties in a day or two and will soon start the second phase of discussions to create a national charter. Commission Members Justice Md. Emdadul Haque, Dr. Badiul Alam Majumder, Safar Raj Hossain, Dr. Iftekharuzzaman…
Dhanmondi Road- 27 has been renamed after ‘Shaheed Farhan Faiyaz’, a martyr of July uprising. “The new name of Dhanmondi Road- 27 (old) is now ‘Shaheed Farhan Faiyaz Road’. Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) unveiled the plaque of the new road,” said LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain in his verified facebook post last evening. On July 18, 2024, an intermediate student of Dhaka Residential Model College Mohammad Farhanul Islam Bhuiyan alias Farhan Faiyaz was shot dead while he was at the frontline of anti-discrimination student movement at a place between Rapa Plaza and Genetic Plaza on Dhanmondi road-27 (old)…
National Security Adviser Dr Khalilur Rahman today said he remains prepared to exercise his rights as a Bangladeshi citizen although a BNP leader recently alleged that the adviser is a foreign citizen. In response to the allegation, Dr Rahman told BSS that the burden of proof of the allegation rests on the individual, who made it and, if necessary, it would have to be proven before a court of law. “I remain prepared to exercise my rights as a Bangladeshi citizen to the fullest extent,” said the National Security Adviser. BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed recently alleged that Dr Rahman is…
(BSS/AFP) – Tens of thousands of Catholics and politicians including US Vice President JD Vance will gather at the Vatican on Sunday for the inauguration mass of Leo XIV, the first US pope. Ten days after the soft-spoken Robert Francis Prevost was chosen from among his fellow cardinals to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, his papacy will formally begin in a ceremony at St Peter’s Square. The mass begins at 10:00 am (0800 GMT) but Pope Leo will at 9:00 am make his first foray into the crowd in the popemobile, the specially adapted vehicle often used by the…
(BSS/AFP) – US President Donald Trump said Saturday he would speak by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the “bloodbath” in Ukraine, a day after the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in more than three years. Trump, who has been pressing Russia to agree a 30-day unconditional ceasefire, said he would speak with him by phone on Monday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the state TASS news agency the call was “being prepared”. Earlier Saturday, the Kremlin had said that a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would be possible only after both sides…
(BSS)- Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman today said it is the appropriate time to formulate and implement processes and procedures to institutionalize democracy so that no more fascists and dictators can take away the rights of the people in the coming days. “The pro-democracy political parties have continued to support the interim government in the interest of establishing a government accountable to the people through the people’s voting rights although there may already be some disappointment in the public mind regarding the goodwill or ability of the interim government to institutionalize democracy,” he said. He made these…
(BSS/AFP) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called on Saturday for pressure to stop Israel’s “massacre in Gaza” and said Madrid plans a UN resolution requesting a world court ruling on aid access to the Palestinian territory. Sanchez told an Arab League summit in Baghdad that the war triggered by Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel has led to “unacceptable numbers” of victims in Gaza, violating the “principle of humanity”. “The extremely grave humanitarian crisis Gaza has endured since October 2023 has caused more than 50,000 dead, 100,000 wounded and two million displaced,” said Sanchez, who has sharply criticised the…
