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Saturday, 18 January, 2025

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68% people want non-partisan president: BBS

As many as 68% of the countrys citizens want the next president to have no ties with any political party, while 83% want the head of the state to be elected directly by the people, according to a survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Furthermore, 65% of the survey...

Trump adviser says president-elect exploring options to 'preserve' TikTok

Trumps pick for national security adviser, Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, said in an interview on Wednesday that the president-elect is exploring options to preserve TikTok. Waltz made the comment when Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked him about a report from The Washington Post that said Trump was...

Ex-president Abdul Hamid sued over July uprising killings

Former president and Awami League politician Abdul Hamid has been accused for the first time in a lawsuit over July-August 2024 uprising killings. The defendant Tahmul Islam, 27, is a BNP activist in Kishoreganj and claims to be officially recognised as an injured in the student-led anti-fascist...

South Korean president arrested after weeks-long showdown

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the countrys anti-corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weeks-long political saga that began with the embattled presidents shock martial law decree last month. Yoon left his residential compound with...

Putin to meet with Iranian president on Jan 17

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian who will arrive in Russia on an official visit on January 17, the Kremlin press service said, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported. It is planned to discuss the prospects for further...

19 killed in gunmen's attempt to storm Chad's presidential complex

Gunmen attempted to storm the presidential complex in Chads capital NDjamena on Wednesday, sparking a battle that left 18 attackers and one security personnel member dead, the government said. Agence France-Pressse reporters heard gunfire near the site and saw tanks on the street, while security...

SCBA president demands withdrawal of false cases against ex-Chief Justice Sinha

President of the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Thursday demanded withdrawal of the false cases against former Chief Justice SK Sinha and take initiative to bring him back to the country. The Supreme Court Bar President raised the demand to...

Moin, Mamun elected DCAB president, secretary

AKM Moinuddin, Special Correspondent of United News Bangladesh (UNB), and Md Arifuzzaman Mamun, Diplomatic Correspondent of daily Amader Shomoy, have been elected president and general secretary respectively of the Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) for the year 2025....

Jahidul elected new Shibir president

Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, has elected Jahidul Islam as its new president for the session of 2025. Jahidu has been elected through votes at the central council of Islami Chhatra Shibir in the capitals Suhrawardy Udyan on Tuesday. Councillors cast...

New Georgian president sworn in

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, was sworn in as president of Georgia on Sunday amid a political crisis after the government froze European Union application talks in a move that sparked major protests. Outgoing President Salome Zourabichvili, a pro-EU critic of the ruling...

Former US President Bill Clinton hospitalized

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington following a fever, according to his spokesperson, reports UNB. The 78-year-old was hospitalized Monday afternoon for observation and tests, as stated by his deputy chief of staff, Angel...

Trump rejects taunts that Musk is real power behind US president-elect

The United States President-elect Donald Trump has pushed back on the notion that he has ceded the presidency to billionaire Elon Musk, who has taken an outsized role in the president-elects transition into the White House, reports Al Jazeera. Trump made the comments during a speech in Arizona...

Tens of thousands protest in Belgrade against president over railway collapse

Tens of thousands of people gathered in central Belgrade on Sunday to protest against President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). The people blame the president for a railway station roof collapse on November that killed 15 people, reports the Reuters. The...

Trump vows to ‘stop transgender lunacy’ as a top priority

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to stop the transgender lunacy on day one of his presidency, as Republicans -- set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House -- continue their push against LGBTQ rights, reports BSS. I will sign executive orders to end child sexual...

Hamza will inspire a generation of footballers: Tabith Awal

Bangladesh Football Federation(BFF) president Tabith Awal spoke about the significance of Leicester City midfielder Hamza Choudhurys clearance to represent Bangladesh, reports The Business Standard. He said these extensively from his residence in Gulshan on Friday. For Awal, this milestone is...

Syria in hands of ‘terrorists’: Assad

Ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad broke his silence on Monday after fleeing Syria, saying that he only left once Damascus had fallen, and denounced the countrys new leaders as terrorists. He abandoned a country in which 70 percent of the population needs help, according to the United...

Oli Ahmad rejects president's invitation to join Victory Day reception

Dr. Colonel (Retd.) Oli Ahmad Bir Bikram, President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has declined the invitation to attend the Victory Day reception at Bangabhaban hosted by the President. Although invited to the Victory Day event, he decided not to participate. He rejected the...

Foreign Adviser calls on Timor-Leste President

Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain called on visiting Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta at Hotel Sonogram on Sunday morning, reports BSS. Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan also present during the call on. The meeting marked the beginning of President...

President, CA pay homage to martyred intellectuals

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday paid rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals of 1971 on the occasion of the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Saturday, reports BSS. In separate messages on the eve of the day, the President and the Chief Adviser...

South Korean President faces close second martial law impeachment vote

South Koreas opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, has urged lawmakers to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law declaration. The National Assembly will hold its second vote on impeachment Saturday, requiring 200 votes to pass. Opposition members need support from eight ruling...

Prosecutor fights Trump bid to throw out hush money conviction

Manhattan prosecutors renewed their opposition Tuesday to President-elect Donald Trumps efforts to quash his hush money conviction, but accepted pausing the case while he is president, reports BSS. Trump has long opposed the criminal process against him brought after he paid a porn star for her...

Assad ‘fled’ Syria after losing Russia’s support: Trump

US president-elect Donald Trump says al-Assad had fled his country after losing the backing of Russia, reports Al Jazeera. Assad is gone, he said on his Truth Social platform. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer....

South Korea president survives impeachment

South Koreas President Yoon Suk Yeol survived a vote of impeachment on Saturday after the vote was boycotted by governing party lawmakers, CNN reported. In another day of high drama, a number of lawmakers left parliament ahead of the vote to impeach President Yoon over his decision to impose a...

South Korean president apologizes for martial law declaration

South Koreas president apologized on Saturday for the public concern caused by his brief attempt to declare martial law earlier this week, just hours before a parliamentary vote on his impeachment. Yoon said in a brief televised address Saturday morning he wont shirk legal or political...

What to know about Kash Patel, Trump’s pick for FBI head

Kash Patel has called for radical changes at the FBI and was a fierce and vocal critic of the bureaus work as it investigated ties between Russia and Donald Trumps 2016 presidential campaign, reports AP. Kashyap Pramod Patel or Kash Patel was born to Gujarati-Indian parents in New Yorks Long...

US universities urge Indian students to return before Trump takes office

As the United States braces for Donald Trump to assume office as the 47th president in January, several top universities have issued advisories urging international students, particularly those from India, to return to the country before the inauguration. Concerns over potential travel bans have...

Far-right candidate targets breakthrough in Romania’s presidential election

The Romanian citizens were casting votes on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election amid a surge in inflation and fears over the war in neighbouring Ukraine that could favour far-right leader George Simion. The vote kicks off two weeks ofelectionsin the poorNATOmember country,...

Erdogan opposes US move to allow Ukraine use long range-missiles

Turkish media have quoted that Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying that he opposes the USs decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to attack inside Russia, reports Al Jazeera. Such a development might inflame the conflict and bring the region and countries beyond to the...