Zelenskyy to host Lviv talks with UN chief

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to host the U.N. chief and Turkey’s leader Thursday for talks on the recent deal to resume Ukraine’s grain exports, the volatile situation at a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant and efforts to help end the nearly six-month-old war. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres arrived Wednesday in

Sri Lanka leader proposes 25-year plan for crisis-hit nation

Sri Lanka's new president said Wednesday that his government is preparing a national policy roadmap for the next 25 years that aims to cut public debt and turn the country into a competitive export economy as it seeks a way out of its worst economic disaster. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his

Biden told Xi that US policy on Taiwan has ‘not changed’: W.House

President Joe Biden told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday that US policy is unchanged on Taiwan, despite Beijing's warning that Washington should not "play with fire" regarding the island's status. "On Taiwan, President Biden underscored that the United States policy has not changed and that the United States strongly

Wickremesinghe becomes interim Sri Lankan president

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. The speaker of Sri Lanka's Parliament said Rajapaksa resigned as president effective Thursday and lawmakers will

US labor officials meet BGMEA president

Margaret Scotti, Area Advisor for South Asia and Europe and Leena Z Khan, International Relations Officer at the U.S. Department of Labor, paid a courtesy call on Faruque Hassan, President of BGMEA at the latter’s office on June 28, a press release said Thursday. Scott A. Brandon, Counselor for Political and

Design modern curricula for every university: President

President Abdul Hamid on Saturday directed all concerned to formulate modern curriculum in every university of the country. He gave the instruction when the Vice-Chancellors of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib University of Science and Technology and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University visited the President at Bangabhaban in the

President authenticates proposed budget for 2022-23 FY

 President M Abdul Hamid today authenticated the national budget for 2022-23 fiscal and the revised budget for 2021-22 for placing before the Jatiya Sangsad by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. The head of the state authenticated the budget at his Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (parliament complex) Office at about 2:40 this afternoon. Chief

Mahbubur Rahman re-elected as ICC Bangladesh president

Mahbubur Rahman, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ETBL Holdings Limited, has been re-elected as the president of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)- Bangladesh for a two-year term from April 2022 to March 2024.Rokia Afzal Rahman, former president of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) and chairman of

Sheikh Khalifa, the President of the UAE, has died.

The United Arab Emirates' President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 on Friday, state media said, after battling illness for several years. "The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE and the Islamic world... on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on Friday, May