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Four ‘extremists’ held in Dhaka

Shawdesh Desk: Members of Rapid Action Battalion 3 arrested four suspected members of a religious extremist outfit named ‘Allahar Dal@Allahr Sarkar’ from Hatirjheel area in Dhaka on early Monday. The arrested are

Kashmir: the lull before storm?

INDIA’S frantic search for a solution to the Kashmir crunch has enabled uts policy planners to realise their need and also to understand this better. Indeed, there exist deadly perils

Amsterdam sex workers angry at red light district tours ban

Shawdesh Desk: The city of Amsterdam’s latest attempt to rein in the nuisance of over-tourism by banning guided tours of the red light district has run into opposition from some

Tannery rawhide procurement begins

Shawdesh Desk: Tannery owners have started rawhide procurement as per the government instruction and it will continue for the next two months. General Secretary of the Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA)

US stocks end turbulent week with broad gains

Shawdesh Desk: You’re not the only one confused about where the economy is headed. Just look at the stock market, where perplexed investors have been sending stocks on a wild

Not just Bali: Indonesia hopes to develop more tourism sites

Shawdesh Desk: Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on gray stone steps atop the world’s largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking cellphones or whispering to each other as

25th Sarajevo Film Festival opens with honours for directors

Biodon Desk: The Sarajevo Film Festival launched its 25th annual edition Friday by bestowing its top honour on Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Polish counterpart Pawel Pawlikowski for their

‘The Little Prince’ sketches found in Switzerland

Shawdesh Desk: Early sketches of ‘The Little Prince,’ the world famous creation of French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, have been found in storage in northern Switzerland, local media and an