2022 May

No sign of end to AL-BNP row over next nat’l polls

Shawdesh Desk: The ruling Awami League and the major opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) stick to their respective stance over next national election, thus showing no sign of an end ReadMore

BAJUS President Anvir ushers jewellery industry into a new era

Shawdesh desk: Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) President Sayem Sobhan Anvir pushed jewellery industry to a new era. This was said by speakers at a programme in Mymensingh marking orientation of ReadMore

Body of Gaffar Chowdhury taken to central Shaheed Minar

Shawdesh desk: The body of renowned journalist, columnist and lyricist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, was taken to the central Shaheed Minar in the capital. Gaffar Chowdhury will be given a guard of ReadMore

Gaffar Chy’s body arrives in Dhaka

Shawdesh desk: The body of writer, journalist and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury reached Dhaka on Saturday morning. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the body of Gaffar Chowdhury, the ReadMore

Rajshahi University drops 16pc seats in 15 departments

Shawdesh Desk: The authorities of Rajshahi University have reduced sixteen per cent of the existing seats in fifteen departments for undergraduate first year students in 2021-22 academic session for what ReadMore

Diarrhoea breaks out in flood affected Sylhet

Shawdesh desk: A total of 550 people have been diagnosed with diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases in the past one week in Sylhet, compounding the woes of the district’s flood-hit ReadMore

Authorities must look into displaced people’s interests

MORE than 200 families, displaced by the acquisition of land for the Ashuganj Power Plant in Patuakhali, having been denied fair price points to corruption, mismanagement and carelessness. The families, ReadMore

A small bump or a major hurdle?

Pavel Nastin: TODAY, it is clear that the beginning of Russia’s special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on February 24 this year was a landmark moment in the ReadMore