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‘Turning point’ as number of male smokers drops: WHO

Shawdesh Desk: The number of male tobacco users is falling for the first time, the World Health Organization said Thursday, hailing a “major shift” in efforts to kick the world’s

Teenage Zirkzee sparks Bayern’s winning late show

Sports Desk: Bayern Munich’s Joshua Zirkzee scored on his Bundesliga debut, just two minutes after coming onto the pitch in his team’s last-gasp 3-1 win away at SC Freiburg on

BAFA Art Gallery starts Friday

Shawdesh Desk: Renowned cultural institute Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA) is going to inaugurate an Art Gallery at its main campus in Waisghat in old Dhaka city on Friday.

Awami League’s 21st National Council begins

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Awami League, the party which waged the Bengali nationalist movement nearly seven decades ago and subsequently steered the country’s 1971 Liberation War, is set to stage its

Assault on journalist: BCL leader arrested in Jamalpur

Shawdesh DEsk: A BCL leader was arrested for his alleged involvement with the assault on a local journalist in Jamalpur. The arrestee Rakib Khan, 27, is the district Chhatra League

Fakhrul, 3 other BNP leaders invited to Awami League council

Shawdesh Desk: Four BNP leaders, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, have been invited to the ruling Awami League’s upcoming 21st National Council scheduled for December 20. Besides

Razakars list: Liberation War Affairs Minister, secy served legal notice seeking unconditional apology

Shawdesh DEsk: A legal notice has been served to the Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and its secretary requesting them to offer an unconditional apology to the nation

14 killed in fiery minibus crash in Mexico

Shawdesh DEsk: A minibus carrying a family to a holiday beach getaway in Mexico crashed into a lumber truck on Wednesday and caught fire, killing 14 people, including five children,