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BNP for unity to establish ‘people’s govt’

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday celebrated its 41st founding anniversary with a call for forging national unity by strengthening the party to oust the ‘fascist government’ and to

Texas mass shooting leaves five dead, many more wounded

Shawdesh desk: A white male in his 30s who was known to police killed five people and wounded 21 others on Saturday in a gun rampage between the West Texas

Number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon basin still on rise

Shawdesh desk: The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said Saturday. In the first 48 hours

Hurricane Dorian set to slam Bahamas

Shawdesh Desk: Hurricane Dorian is set to slam the Bahamas on Sunday as a dangerous category 4 storm, pounding the islands with up to two days of torrential rain, high

Extremists may preparing for bigger attacks: Obaidul

Shawdesh Desk: Obaidul Quader, the road transport and bridges minister, on Sunday said that the recent bomb attacks on police ‘might be a test case and preparation for a bigger

Rohingya ‘miscreant’ Noor Mohammad killed in Teknaf gunfight

Shawdesh Desk: An alleged Rohingya miscreant was killed in a gunfight with the Teknaf police in hilly area of Jadimora under Teknaf police station in Cox’s Bazar early Sunday. The

No concern for Bangladesh over NRC, says FM

Shawdesh Desk: Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday ruled out any concern for Bangladesh amid the exclusion of nearly 2 million people from the final citizenship list in Assam

Hong Kong protesters expected to regroup despite police ban

Shawdesh Desk: Protesters were expected to gather in downtown Hong Kong on Saturday in the latest of a series of anti-government demonstrations that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its