Since returning to the White House on January 20, Donald Trump has signed a whopping 79 executive orders touching on issues from foreign policy to transgender rights. BSS With his Republican Party only holding narrow majorities in Congress, and seeking to move quickly to remake the US government, Trump has brandished his pen as a weapon targeting trade, civil rights and federal bureaucracy. No US president has signed so many executive actions so quickly since 1937, according to the Federal Register, which has published the orders made since that date. Trump has met fierce resistance. By February 27, 16 of…
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The newly formed National Citizen Party (NCP) has unveiled its vision for Bangladesh’s future, calling for the establishment of a ‘Second Republic’ through a new democratic constitution. “The only way to prevent a return to dictatorship is to dismantle the existing system and draft a new constitution, one that permanently safeguards the rights of the people and prevents the concentration of power in the hands of ruling elite,” said the declaration. In the second republic, the common people – and only the common people – will be the supreme source of power, NCP said in its official declaration announced today…
Staff Correspondent : The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has published a gazette notification recognising 493 individuals injured in the July mass uprising as ‘July Warriors’. The ministry issued the gazette on Thursday categorising 493 critically injured individuals under ‘Category A’. The gazette, signed by Deputy Secretary of the Ministry Haridas Thakur, has been published under the schedule-1 (Allocation of Business) of the Rules of Business, 1996 of the ministry. The gazette includes the medical case IDs, names, parents’ names and permanent addresses of the very severely injured protesters. On January 15, a list of 834 martyrs from the mass…
National Citizen Party (NCP) convener Nahid Islam today said the National Citizen Party will be a democratic, egalitarian, people-representing party with no room for corruption and nepotism. “In our republic, the common people—and only the common people—will be the supreme source of power. The robust protection of all their democratic and fundamental rights will be the core principle of our politics,” he told the launch event of the new party on Manik Mia Avenue this evening. Nahid Islam, who made the convener of newly lunched NCP said, in July 2024, through immense sacrifices, the students and the people carried out…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Friday for Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to apologize for an earlier clash with President Donald Trump. Zelensky should “apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did,” Rubio said on CNN after Oval Office talks devolved into argument and raised voices. Rubio also questioned whether Zelensky — the president of a country that has endured more than three years of war following Russia’s February 2022 invasion — wanted it to end. “You start to perceive that maybe Zelensky doesn’t want a peace deal. He says…
DJ DESK : The fiery altercation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday was shocking but not entirely unexpected, analysts say, with the way forward for Kyiv looking increasingly uncertain. US President Trump has long been a critic of the United States’s billions in aid for Ukraine after Russia invaded it in February 2022, and had promised — without providing details — to end the war soon after coming to office. On February 12, he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, appearing to start peace negotiations without involving Ukraine — a move that angered Kyiv…
Staff Correspondent : The test run of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) will begin soon, Director General of State Corporation for Nuclear Energy ROSATOM of the Russian Federation, Alexey Likhachev said today. “…the dry run of the project is going on while the test run will commence soon,” Likhachev said when he called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna here. During the meeting, Prof Yunus said Bangladesh is looking forward to expanding cooperation in nuclear energy, focusing on shared interests and advancements in peaceful nuclear technology. The meeting focused on the continuing collaboration between…
Staff Correspondent : With the slogan ‘Strong unity can stop conspiracy’, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) today began its extended meeting after seven years. The second extended meeting of the central committee formed through the sixth council in March, 2016 began at 11.10 am at the LD Hall of the Jatiya Sangsad with the recitation of the Holy Quran. BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia spoke as the chief guest and party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman delivered inaugural address on virtual platform from London. At the beginning of the meeting, one minute silence was observed in the memory of the martyrs…
Staff Correspondent : A bus carrying a group of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday. A Hamas official told AFP the group had handed over the bodies of four hostages held in Gaza since its October 7, 2023 attack in exchange. Wearing traditional keffiyeh scarves and jackets to cover their jail uniforms, the freed prisoners descended from the bus before a compact and jubilant crowd, then headed to a quick health checkup. Young and old chanted “Allahu Akbar” and “the people…
Staff Correspondfent : Bangladesh wants a special relationship with Germany in an effort to deepen trade and investment ties with the Europe’s largest economy, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said today. The Chief Adviser made the comments when Zarah Bruhn, a Commissioner of the German government, called on him at the State Guest House Jamuna here. During the meeting, Prof Yunus praised the German people and the German economy, saying the country has been the leader in many areas, including heavy industry, in the world. “We have close relations with Germany. But we want to have a different relationship –…
