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BNP announces countrywide rally, procession for Jan 16

Shawdesh Desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has announced countrywide rally and procession programmes for January 16 to press home their 10-point demand and protesting the government’s power price

AL holds programmes in different Dhaka areas

Shawdesh Desk: Ruling Awami League organised rallies and discussion in different areas in Dhaka on Wednesday while main opposition party — Bangladesh Nationalist Party— and other opposition parties organised nationwide

Bangladesh PM’s Japan visit expected to be scheduled for April

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Japan visit could be scheduled for April. Newly-appointed Japanese ambassador Iwama Kiminori on Wednesday made the proposal to Bangladesh prime minister Hasina on behalf

IMF’s DMD due in Dhaka on Jan 14 to finalise $4.5bn loan deal

Shawdesh Desk: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Antoinette Monsio Sayeh is due in Dhaka on January 14 for a 5-day visit, to finalise the agreement for a $4.5

WB loan for weather project cut by Tk 2.48bn

Shawdesh Desk: A World Bank loan to improve weather forecasting and information has been cut by Tk 2.48 billion after some key components were proposed to be dropped. Bangladesh Meteorological

Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day today

Shawdesh Desk: The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bangalee of all time, is being observed across the country today. On this

AL ready to quash domestic, foreign conspiracies: Quader

Shawdesh Desk: Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said that his party was ready to quash domestic and foreign conspiracies, organised violence in the name of movement,

China to remain engaged in Bangladesh’s development journey: FM

Shawdesh Desk: Newly appointed Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang has conveyed to Bangladesh that his country will ‘remain engaged’ in Bangladesh’s development journey to the next level, noting Bangladesh’s ‘remarkable’