Bangladesh

ACC doing little to catch big fishes: TIB

Shawdesh Desk: Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday sharply criticised Anti-Corruption Commission for its reluctance and failure to take stern action against the big corrupts. “Anti-Corruption Commission is a paper

Bashundhara Group Chairman inaugurates ‘Japan Road’

Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Naoki Ito have jointly inaugurated a street named ‘Japan Road’ at Block-I of Bashundhara Residential Area in the capital,

Ex-BM college BCL leader Hena commits suicide over ‘family feud’

Shawdesh Desk: A housewife and former leader of Brojo Mohon (BM) College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room in Oxford

Son to die for killing mother in Kushtia

Shawdesh Desk: A court in Kushtia on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for killing his mother of Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia in 2018. The convicted person is Jewel Sarder

IEDCR team visits spot after 2 die of ‘unknown disease’ in Thakurgaon

Shawdesh Desk: A team of Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) on Tuesday morning visited Songaon village in Baliadangi upazila under Thakurgaon where two members of a family

South Korean citizen hospitalised with fever in Kurmitola Hospital

A South Korean citizen, who has recently come to Dhaka, has been admitted to Kurmitola General Hospital with fever, IEDCR director Professor Meerjady Sabrina Flora said on Tuesday. The director of

Three more Narayanganj gas fire victims dies at DMCH

Shawdesh Desk: Two more people succumbed to their burn injuries they received after a fire broke out at a house in Sahebapara of Siddhirganj upazila in Narayanganj on February 17.

Expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Papia on 15-day remand

Shawdesh Desk: Two separate courts in Dhaka on Monday placed expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon on 15-day remand each in three