Bangladesh

The undaunted daughter of Jhenaidah

Shawdesh desk: ‘Life is not a bed of roses’ – Mahfuza Khatun knew it all too well from her very childhood. For the daughter of a landless and physically impaired

Indian weather balloon crashes in Bangladesh

Shawdesh desk: An Indian weather balloon fell down in Hauli village of bordering Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga on Sunday evening, triggering panic among locals. Sukumar Biswas, officer-in-charge (OC) of Damurhuda

Onion woes continue amid further price hike

Shawdesh Desk: Despite its huge import, the price of onion saw a further rise by Tk 15-20 both at the wholesale and retail markets in the capital on Saturday with

Fire at under-construction high rise building in Chattogram

Shawdesh Desk: A fire broke out at an under-construction multi-storey building in Agrabad area of the port city on Sunday afternoon. Md Jasim Uddin, deputy director of Chattogram Fire Service

Clerk assaults nephew of accused on Dhaka court premises (Watch)

Shawdesh Desk: A lawyer’s clerk on Sunday allegedly assaulted a person on the premises of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court in Dhaka when the victim came to visit his

9 killed as bus rams microbus

Shawdesh desk: At least nine members of a wedding party, seven of them family members and close relatives, were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a

Workers stick to demand for road law amendment

Shawdesh Desk: Leaders of the Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation on Friday said that they would stick to their previous eight-point demands for amendment of the Road Transport Act 2018.

Two-day Jibananda poetry fair begins in Rajshahi

Shawdesh desk: A two-day ‘Jibananda Poetry Fair- 2019’ began on Shah Makhdum Degree College premises in Rajshahi city on Friday. Kabikunja, a literary organisation, is hosting the fair creating an assembling