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Haphazard car parking intensifies city traffic jam

Shawdesh Desk: Indiscriminate parking of private cars and other vehicles is causing severe traffic jams in the Jatiya Press Club area and other places of the capital, which intensifies sufferings

Sri Lanka police open fire at protesters; 1 dead, 13 injured

Shawdesh Desk: Sri Lankan police opened fire Tuesday at people protesting new fuel price increases, killing one and injuring 13 others, in the first shooting by security forces during weeks

Global Covid cases top 505 million

Shawdesh Desk: The overall number of Covid cases has now surged past 505 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world. According to Johns Hopkins University

Hundreds of Rohingya escape Malaysia detention, six dead

Shawdesh desk: Hundreds of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar escaped a detention centre in Malaysia on Wednesday after a riot broke out, with six killed on a highway as they fled,

IMF asks Sri Lanka to restructure debt before bailout

Shawdesh Desk: The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that it has asked cash-strapped Sri Lanka to “restructure” its huge foreign debt before a bailout programme could be finalised as

BNP misquoted me on democracy and human rights issues: German Ambassador

Shawdesh Desk: German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster has expressed displeasure over what he says BNP misquoting him after his meeting with the party’s leaders last month. “I’m a bit

Edible oil prices see no impact of VAT cut

Shawdesh Desk: Consumers are yet to get any benefit of the recent value-added tax (VAT) cut on edible oil as the prices still remain high at the retail market. On

Sri Lanka town under curfew, foreign concern over killing

Shawdesh Desk: Police kept up a curfew in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, a day after the killing of an anti-government demonstrator in escalating protests across the island triggered international