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HK students boycott classes supporting protesters

Shawdesh Desk: Hundreds of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations on Monday, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the

Phoenix’s ‘Joker’ drives critics crazy

Binodon Desk: Joaquin Phoenix’s visceral performance as the downtrodden street clown who transforms into the “Joker” was hailed by critics as “sensational” and “unnerving” on Saturday, as his pitch-black supervillain

Bengal remembers Rituparno Ghosh

Binodon Desk: Eminent personalities of Bengal on Saturday remembered National award-winning filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh on his 56th birth anniversary. Ghosh, who started his career as a creative artist at an

Mustafiz bowls and takes wicket in draw

Shawdesh Desk: Mustafizur Rahman shrugged off his injury fear to bowl one over in the drawn practice match between Bangladesh Red and Bangladesh Green and was rewarded with a wicket

Texas mass shooting leaves five dead, many more wounded

Shawdesh desk: A white male in his 30s who was known to police killed five people and wounded 21 others on Saturday in a gun rampage between the West Texas

Number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon basin still on rise

Shawdesh desk: The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said Saturday. In the first 48 hours

Dozens arrested over Papua protests

Shawdesh Desk: Indonesian police have arrested dozens of people in the easternmost region of Papua following protests last week in which buildings were set ablaze, a police spokesman said on

Hurricane Dorian set to slam Bahamas

Shawdesh Desk: Hurricane Dorian is set to slam the Bahamas on Sunday as a dangerous category 4 storm, pounding the islands with up to two days of torrential rain, high