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Myanmar panel: Security forces likely committed war crimes

Shawdesh Desk: An independent commission established by Myanmar’s government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000

Trump’s impeachment hearings to begin Tuesday

Shawdesh DEsk: US President Donald Trump’s Impeachment hearings will begin on Tuesday at 13:00 (18:00 GMT). Trump’s legal team, representing him at his impeachment trial, has demanded that he is

Japan ready to help Bangladesh to solve Rohingya crisis

Shawdesh Desk: Newly-appointed Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Naoki Ito on Monday said his country is ready to extend any kind of assistance to Bangladesh for solving the protracted Rohingya crisis.

Not planned but security forces might have committed ‘war crimes’: Myanmar probe

Shawdesh DEsk: An independent commission established by Myanmar’s government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000

5 ex-cops get death for killing 24 people in Hasina’s rally in Chattogram

After long 32 years of the gruesome killing of 24 people attending Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s rally in Chittagong in 1988, a Chattogram court on Monday sentenced five people

Indictment hearing in fake birthday case against Khaleda February 11

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court set February 11 to hold hearing on charge framing in a case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for observing fake birthday on August 15,

Indian finance minister defends CAA citing Adnan, Taslima as examples

Shawdesh Desk: Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman cited Adnan Sami’s Indian citizenship and exiled writer Taslima Nasreen, who has been living in Delhi on a residence permit, as another example

Ten militants get death in CPB rally blast case, 2 acquitted

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka Court on Monday sentenced ten members of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) to death and acquitted two others in a case filed over the