Bangladesh Bidi Sramik Federaion organised a press conference expressing reaction over proposed VAT on tobacco in the National Budget for the year 2019 -2020 at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday .

17 Jun 2019, 12:00 am0

Militants attack Iraq air base, US assessment teams deploy

Reuters, Baghdad :Militants attacked one of Iraq’s largest air bases on Wednesday as the first US teams arrived to assess the Iraqi security forces and decide how to help counter a mounting Sunni insurgency.Two weeks of advances by militants spearheaded by al Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has threatened to rupture the country two and a half years after the withdrawal of US troops.US Secretary of State John Kerry urged leaders of Iraq’s autonomous...

26 Jun 2014, 12:00 am