BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir speaking at a roundtable on ‘Water Sharing of Teesta River: Perspective Bangladesh’ organized by BNP at a local hotel in the city on Sunday.

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe booed in parliament over economic crisis

AFP, Harare :Zimbabwe’s veteran President Robert Mugabe was booed and heckled by opposition lawmakers over the deteriorating economy as he gave his state of the nation address to parliament Tuesday. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) lawmakers questioned his economic policies, jeering as the 91-year-old delivered a policy speech which lasted less than half an hour. When Mugabe-who has been in power since Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain in 1980 — outlined his government’s plan to improve the economy, one lawmaker yelled...

27 Aug 2015, 12:00 am