DHAKA: Political stakeholders in Bangladesh on Sunday reached a consensus on reinstating the caretaker govt system in Bangladesh that was abolished more than a decade ago.“We have all been part of a 14-year-long struggle to restore the caretaker govt system. At today’s discussions, we successfully reached an agreement on its reintroduction,” said vice-chairman of National […]
Russ Vought (Image: X) and Jerome Powell (AP image) Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sent a letter on Thursday to White House Budget Director Russ Vought, responding to allegations that he mismanaged the renovation of the Federal Reserve Board’s Eccles Building and the 1951 Constitution Avenue facility.The letter comes amid growing speculation that the Trump […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei (File photo) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday took a jab against US and Israel, declaring that fighting the United States and its “dog on a leash” Israel is “praiseworthy.”Khamenei also accused Israel of waging war with the broader goal of “overthrowing the system” in Iran, suggesting that Israel’s […]
Elon Musk has announced the formation of ‘The America Party’, in a move aimed at disrupting what he calls America’s ‘uniparty’ political system, drawing philosophical inspiration from ancient Greek history. Taking to X, Musk invoked the legacy of Epaminondas, the Greek general credited with ending Spartan dominance at the Battle of Leuctra.He said the new […]
US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) Donald Trump’s ambitious spending cut and border security package – the “big, beautiful bill” – is estimated to inject around $150 billion into the mass deportation agenda of the US leader in the four years of his second and final term – 15 times the current annual budget […]
Israel’s Arrow anti-missile defence system Israel may be running dangerously low on its stock of Arrow missile interceptors, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal that cites a senior US official. The warning comes as Israel faces an unprecedented volume of ballistic missile attacks from Iran in the sixth day of full-blown conflict […]
Kaja Kallas at the 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore (AP) The European Union is bolstering its defence spending amidst US President Donald Trump‘s calls for spending more money by Nato countries on itself rather than asking the United States, and said that “no love” is better than “tough love.”US defence secretary Pete Hegseth had […]
Debris covers the ground after a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting homes and cars on fire and forcing evacuations (PTI Image) When the pilot attempted landing at the San Diego airport, the runway lights were out, a weather alert system wasn’t working, and there was heavy fog, leading to a crash […]
File photo: US transportation secretary Sean Duffy (Picture credit: AP) US transportation secretary Sean Duffy has warned of a “crisis” in America’s air traffic control system, which is grappling with outdated equipment, severe staffing shortages and a series of high-profile failures, including deadly accidents and repeated outages.Speaking before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday, Duffy […]
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, and German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (AP) Germany’s baby boomers are retiring. Those born between 1955 and 1969, when the birth rate was at an all-time high, are also living longer. The workforce is not growing at the same rate.So who will pay the elderly’s pensions? A considerable chunk of […]
