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Inviting BNP for talks is EC’s strategy, not govt’s: CEC

Shawdesh desk: Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Tuesday said that inviting the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party for ‘informal’ talks was a strategy of the Election Commission and

90pc fishes of Teesta extinct

Shawdesh desk: About 90 per cent of fishes and most of other aquatic lives that once made the waters of the Teesta, Dharla and Brahmaputra rivers their abode have vanished

HC seeks details of RAB people involved

Shawdesh desk: The High Court on Monday asked the government to submit a report to the court today stating the names and ranks of Rapid Action Battalion personnel involved in

Seven people killed, over 60 people missing in Ecuador landslide

Shawdesh desk: Rescuers searched Monday for more than 60 people reported missing after a landslide triggered by months of heavy rain killed at least seven people in southern Ecuador. The

Six people, including three children, killed in US school shooting

Shawdesh desk: A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school in Nashville

Mississippi faces more extreme weather after tornado kills 25

Shawdesh desk: Storm-ravaged Mississippi struggled on Sunday with the aftermath of a huge tornado that tore across the southern US state, killing at least 25 people, with devastated communities bracing

PM slams BNP for calling for movement in Ramadan

Shawdesh desk: Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Monday denounced the BNP’s call for movement in the month of Ramadan disregarding its sanctity and peace in

Tunisia recovers 29 bodies after migrant vessels capsize

Shawdesh desk: Tunisia’s coastguard said Sunday the bodies of 29 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries had been recovered after three vessels capsized, the latest in a string of such tragedies.