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Comprehensive steps stressed for saving youths from drug abuse

Speakers at a post-rally discussion today stressed the need for taking comprehensive steps to save young generations from drug abuse to check social degradation for ensuring their brighter future. They

The ‘lathi’: India’s colonial vintage anti-protest weapon

As Indian protests against a new citizenship law have intensified, so has police use of “lathis”, sturdy sticks used to whack, thwack and quell dissent since British colonial times —

Resolution on Myanmar adopted at UNGA with overwhelming majority

Shawdesh Desk: A resolution on ‘Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar’ has been adopted at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly with

Northern people hit hard by bone-chilling cold

People of Tentulia in Panchagarh district are suffering severely as the northernmost town of the country is facing the lowest temperature 6.2 degree Celsius today. The Met Office sources said

A bridge that sticks out like a sore thumb

Shawdesh Desk: A narrow 40-year-old bridge at Chengakandi in Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj has turned into the source of agony for commuters. This bridge, now old, rickety and risky, was

Will 2020 break the curse of the folding phone?

Motorola has announced that it is delaying the launch of the new Razr – an updated version of its 2005 hit clamshell phone which boasts a vertical folding screen. The

Frontline fighting not enough to be a freedom fighter?

Shawdesh Desk: With a hope to have an independent country, he took part in the Liberation War in 1971 like many others. He used to collect information initially for East

What is love? It depends on what language you speak

The English word “love” can be translated as “sevgi” in Turkish and “szerelem” in Hungarian — but does the concept carry the same meaning for speakers of all three tongues?