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Indictment hearing in Niko graft case Dec 2

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday set December 2 to hold hearing on charge framing in Niko graft case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others. Judge Sheikh

California transit worker rescues man from oncoming train

Shawdesh Desk: A California rapid transit employee is being hailed as a hero for rescuing a man who fell onto the tracks as a train was approaching the platform. The

Khoka’s body to be brought back home: Family

Shawdesh Desk: The body of Sadeque Hossain Khoka, former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation, will be flown back home and laid him in rest in Dhaka as per his

Sadeque Hossain Khoka passes away

Shawdesh Desk: Former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporatio Sadeque Hossain Khoka has passed away at a hospital in New York. He was 67. Khoka, a vice chairman of BNP,

Mushfiqur buries the ghosts of Bangalore 2016

Sports Desk: In a game that seemed to have flashes of recall from the India-Bangladesh World T20 contest in Bangalore, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah yet again found themselves in the

Indian capital Delhi gasps under choking smog

Shawdesh Desk: India’s capital New Delhi was enveloped in heavy, toxic smog Sunday — the worst levels in recent years — with hundreds of flights diverted or delayed as politicians

GK Shamim brought to ACC headquarters for grilling

Shawdesh Desk: So-called Jubo League (JL) leader SM Golam Kibria Shamim on Sunday was taken to ACC headquarters at Segunbagicha in the city for interrogation in two separate cases filed

Ex-Sonagazi OC Moazzem denied HC bail

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court on Sunday denied bail to former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station Moazzem Hossain in a case filed under the Digital Security Act. The bench of