The United States agreed on Tuesday to sell Saudi Arabia an arms package worth nearly $142 billion, according to a White House fact sheet that called it “the largest defense cooperation agreement” Washington has ever done, Reuters reports. The agreement, signed during U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the Saudi capital Riyadh, covers deals with […]Continue Reading
PARBATTANEWS DESK Parbatya Chattogram Chhatra Sangsad (PCCS) on Sunday staged a demonstration at Dhaka University demanding a complete ban on the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) and its activities, branding it an armed separatist organisation responsible for destabilising the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The protest was held around 5:00pm at the Raju Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The Election Commission (EC) on Monday issued a gazette notification suspending the registration of the Bangladesh Awami League as a political party. EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed confirmed the decision to reporters following a meeting of the Commission. “This decision follows the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs,” he said. According […]Continue Reading