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Britain starts hearing US case for extraditing Assange

Shawdesh Desk: Britain on Monday starts hearing Washington’s extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a test case of media freedoms in the digital age and the limits of

Khaleda’s bail hearing at 2pm, security beefed up at Supreme Court

Shawdesh Desk: The authorities have ramped up security measures at the Supreme Court premises ahead of the hearing of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail appeal in the Zia Charitable Trust

Global death toll from coronavirus rises to 2,458

Shawdesh desk: The Hubei health authority reported that 96 more people died of the coronavirus in China’s Hubei province on Sunday, February 23, raising the death toll in the outbreak’s

Bangladesh Bank to launch Tk 200 note on Bangabandhu’s birth centenary

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Bank will launch a regular currency note of Tk 200 denomination and commemorative gold and silver coins worth Tk 100 on the occasion of the birth centenary

No justice, rule of law in country now: Fakhrul

Shawdesh Desk: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that now there is no justice and rule of law in the country. “When the whole nation is

Global death toll from coronavirus rises to 2,244

Shawdesh Desk: The Hubei health authority in China reported that 115 more people died of the coronavirus in Hubei province on Thursday, raising the death toll in the epicenter since

President, PM pay tribute to language martyrs

Shawdesh Desk: The nation starts paying homage to the martyrs of the Language Movement in 1952 from Thursday midnight, observing the Shaheed Dibosh and also the International Mother Language Day.

Relatives meet Khaleda Zia at BSMMU

Shawdesh Desk: Family members of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia went to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka to meet her on Friday. BNP chairperson’s media wing officer Shairul