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UK PM to request Trump de-escalate trade tensions

Shawdesh Desk: British prime minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he would tell president Donald Trump at this weekend’s G7 summit to pull back from a trade war that is

3 bonuses in SoBs despite Tk 10,666cr bailout fund

Shawdesh Desk: State-owned commercial banks excepting BASIC Bank Limited have provided three incentive bonuses to their staffs just before the recent Eid festival despite failing to improve their financial position

Anti-capitalism rampage erupts in France as G7 summit opens

Shawdesh Desk: French riot police used water cannons and tear gas on Saturday to disperse anti-capitalism protesters in Bayonne, near Biarritz, as G7 summit launched on Saturday in France. A

Rohingya return fails as government implements Myanmar’s formula: BNP

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that the moves to repatriate Rohingyas were not successful as the Awami League government had bowed down to Myanmar and was implementing

29 HK protesters arrested in overnight clashes

Shawdesh desk: Hong Kong police said on Sunday that they arrested 29 people after clashes overnight in which volleys of tear gas were fired to disperse anti-government protesters, as the

Infant dies of dengue, 1,179 hospitalised

Shawdesh Desk: An infant died of dengue in Mymensingh while 1,179 other were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours ending at 8:00am on Saturday. With the latest death, at

Eight killed as bus falls off Faridpur bridge

Shawdesh Desk: At least eight people were killed and 20 others injured after a bus fell off a bridge in Sadar upazila on Saturday afternoon. Three of the deceased were

Kashmir: power and regional political institutions

AS THE decade of the 1990s dawned, the political, cultural and socioeconomic fabric of Kashmir was severely impaired by the free rein given to Indian military and paramilitary forces to