Bangladesh

3 of family among 4 dead as bus hits auto rickshaw in Cumilla

Shawdesh Desk: Four people, including three members of a family, were killed and four others injured as a bus hit a CNG-run auto rickshaw on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chandina upazila

Goods transport owners, workers begin 48-hour strike in Sylhet

Shawdesh Desk: A 48-hour strike, enforced by goods transport owners and workers, began in Sylhet on Monday morning to press home their demands of withdrawal of the ban on stone

Sale of hilsa begins today after 22-day ban on netting

Shawdesh desk: Selling of hilsa fishes started today (Saturday) in the market after a 22-day ban on fishing, according to media reports. Fishermen started netting from Friday midnight. So, consumers are

FF heirs besiege SQ Chowdhury residence in Ctg

Shawdesh desk: Heirs of freedom fighters on Saturday besieged Goods Hill, the residence of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader and executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury at Kotwali area in Chattogram

Man kills son, ends life in Bagerhat: police

Shawdesh Desk: A 28-year-old man allegedly strangled his three-year-old son to death before ending his life at village Baragaola under Mollahat upazila in Bagerhat district on Friday night, police said.

Dhaka’s air unhealthy for sensitive groups with AQI score of 154

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka’s air quality remains ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’. With an air quality index score of 154 around 10:00am on Saturday, the metropolis ranked fourth in the list of

BNP’s divisional mass rally in Rangpur begins

Shawdesh Desk: The divisional mass rally of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has begun at at the Rangpur Collector Eidgah ground in the city through reciting from the Qur’an

Mongla Port sees huge export, import after Padma Bridge opening

Shawdesh Desk: Amid import control and inflation in economy, the Mongla Port, country’s second largest sea port, saw huge export and import in last three and a half months in