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India’s top ports on alert for attacks

Shawdesh Desk: India’s two main ports said on Thursday they had been warned by the coastguard and intelligence officials that Pakistan-trained commandos have entered Indian waters to carry out underwater

GM foods consumed as no label used

Shawdesh Desk: From the traditional kitchen markets to the high street shops, agricultural products are sold without labelling, leaving no means for consumers to know whether the products are genetically

HK pro-democracy activist Joshua arrested in crackdown

Shawdesh Desk: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on Friday on suspicion of organising illegal protests as authorities clampdown on a wave of unrest that has plunged the

Taslima criticises Arundhuti

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, living in India since 2004, has criticised the celebrated Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy for her comment made eight years back in which

HC orders fresh probe as CID drops Narayanganj OC Kamrul

Shawdesh Desk: Annoyed over omitting the name of Narayanganj Sadar police station officer-in-charge Kamrul Islam from the charge sheet, the High Court Division on Thursday directed the Criminal Investigation Department

532 people disappeared since 2009

Shawdesh Desk: Incidence of enforced disappearance continued in across Bangladesh and the rights groups recorded at least 532 cases reported between January 2009 and July 2019. While families of the

The G7 countries look feeble

To think that the G7 is a serious body is to have lost one’s mind. THE G7 meetings seem — as each of them passes — to be a waste

Key to a sustainable economy is 5000 years old

WE ARE again reaching the point in the business cycle known as ‘peak debt,’ when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt,