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BD reckons Nepal plane crash toll as probe starts

The authorities started probing Monday's plane disaster as death toll soared to 51 on Tuesday.Bangladesh government counted 26 Bangladeshis, including the four crew members, among the dead after the plane crash, an embassy official said.A day after Bangladesh's worst airline disaster, the Bangladesh embassy in Kathmandu released the list of...

Completion of current projects takes priority in coming ADP

Government's election-year development programme will be focused on timely implementation of the ongoing projects, instead of undertaking new ones, alongside proper use of resources and optimum output. Officials concerned gave such a preview of the next development budget as the finance and planning authorities are doing the arithmetic of the...

Atrocities against Rohingyas amount to ‘int’l crimes’

A high-ranking UN official on Monday said the intention of the perpetrators in the Rakhine State of Myanmar was to cleanse the State of Rohingyas. They possibly wanted to destroy this ethnic minority, which, if proved, would constitute the crime of genocide, he said."What I have heard and witnessed in...

Booming aviation sector to face setback

Apart from a terrible human tragedy in Monday's Nepal plane crash, sector-insiders are worried that Bangladesh's booming aviation industry might receive an immediate blow like confidence crisis. A US-Bangla airlines plane crash-landed in the capital of the Himalayan country and exploded into an infernal blaze, leaving at least 51 people...

Trump fires Secy of State Tillerson

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had replaced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, ousting the embattled top diplomat after a series of public rifts, reports Reuters.Trump announced the Cabinet shakeup on Twitter and said he had tapped the CIA's deputy director,...

News Watch (14-03-2018)

PM cuts short S’pore visit, returns homePrime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday cutting short her official visit to Singapore by a day following Monday's US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal. A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and members of her entourage landed at the...