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Sri Lanka civil war: Rajapaksa says thousands missing are dead

Shawdesh Desk: Sri Lanka’s president has acknowledged for the first time that more than 20,000 people who disappeared during the country’s civil war are dead. Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the remark

Not planned but security forces might have committed ‘war crimes’: Myanmar probe

Shawdesh DEsk: An independent commission established by Myanmar’s government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000

Bogura-1 MP Abdul Mannan laid to rest

Shawdesh DEsk: Awami League leader Abdul Mannan, MP, of Bogura-1 constituency, was buried in Sariakandi Eidgah graveyard in Bogura on Monday afternoon. The three-time lawmaker was laid to his eternal

Third grader commits suicide as parents delayed to buy mobile phone for him

Shawdesh DEsk: A class three student allegedly committed suicide as his parents delayed to buy a mobile phone for him at Fulbari upazila in Kurigram district on Sunday evening. The

Youth suffers burn injury as mobile phone explodes in pocket

A youth sustained burn injury in his thigh as his mobile phone exploded in his pocket at Mohammadpur of Magura on Sunday evening. The victim is identified as Munna, son

Bangladesh can do well in Pakistan despite security fears, says coach Russell Domingo

Sports Desk; Coach Russell Domingo said Bangladesh would perform well in Pakistan despite security concerns overshadowing the tour starting later this month, with several players and coaching staff refusing to

Four get death in Kamrangirchar student murder case

Shawdesh DEsk: A Dhaka court sentence four persons including a couple in a case lodged over murder of a schoolboy in capital’s Kamrangirchar in 2012. Dhaka 7th Additional Metropolitan Sessions

5 ex-cops get death for killing 24 people in Hasina’s rally in Chattogram

After long 32 years of the gruesome killing of 24 people attending Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s rally in Chittagong in 1988, a Chattogram court on Monday sentenced five people