Bangladesh

Two children drown in Sylhet, Magura

Shawdesh Desk: In separate incidents, two children drowned in Sylhet and Magura districts on Monday. In Sylhet, an eight-year-old girl met her watery burial at Kharubil village in Jaintapur upazila

Bangladeshi, in hopes of reaching France, dies in Slovakia jungle

Shawdesh Desk: Grief-stricken family of a young man who was found dead in a jungle of Slovakia on his way to France form Ukraine has sought government’s assistance to bring

Rohingyas still in Myanmar face threat of genocide: UN

Shawdesh Desk: Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a “serious risk of genocide”, UN investigators said Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by

PM Hasina inaugurates Biman’s fourth Dreamliner ‘Rajhangsa’

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday inaugurated “Rajhangsa”, the fourth Dreamliner of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, reports news agency BSS. The prime minister formally commissioned the newly-procured state-of-the-art aircraft

Over 600 new dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hrs

Shawdesh Desk: A total of 615 new patients with mosquito-borne disease dengue were admitted to hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Tuesday, reports UNB.

Rajshahi students plant over 100,000 trees with lunch money

Shawdesh Desk: The students of Bagha and Charghat upazilas in Rajshahi district of Bangladesh got their hands dirty on Monday morning planting more than 100,000 trees purchased with their lunch

UN experts urge probe of Rohingya killings in Bangladesh

Shawdesh Desk: UN human rights experts have raised new concerns about the treatment of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh following a deadly backlash over the killing of a ruling party official.

175 Bangladeshi workers sent back to home empty handed

Shawdesh Desk: At least 175 Bangladeshi workers were sent back to Bangladesh from Saudi Arabia on Sunday night as the Saudi authorities launched crackdown against documented and undocumented expatriate migrant