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Sanjay Dutt to enter politics

Shawdesh Desk: Nearly ten years after his maiden political venture as a Samajwadi Party candidate failed to take off from Uttar Pradesh, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is set to re-enter

G7 wrestles with Iran, Amazon fires and trade

Shawdesh Desk: G7 leaders close their summit Monday with discussion of world problems including the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest, but overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s trade wars and questions

ACC quizzing Mahi B Chowdhury

Shawdesh Desk: The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is quizzing lawmaker Mahi B Chowdhury on charge of money laundering. Deputy director Jalal Uddin Ahmed, also the investigation officer, started interrogation around

3 bonuses in SoBs despite Tk 10,666cr bailout fund

Shawdesh Desk: State-owned commercial banks excepting BASIC Bank Limited have provided three incentive bonuses to their staffs just before the recent Eid festival despite failing to improve their financial position

29 HK protesters arrested in overnight clashes

Shawdesh desk: Hong Kong police said on Sunday that they arrested 29 people after clashes overnight in which volleys of tear gas were fired to disperse anti-government protesters, as the

Infant dies of dengue, 1,179 hospitalised

Shawdesh Desk: An infant died of dengue in Mymensingh while 1,179 other were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours ending at 8:00am on Saturday. With the latest death, at

Amazon fires a global crisis

Shawdesh Desk: Paris, the United Nations and EU called for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil’s right-wing president accused his French counterpart of having a “colonialist mentality”

Improper care blamed for worse conditions, deaths

Shawdesh Desk: Improper management of dengue patients at their critical stage by district-level hospitals and private hospitals in Dhaka are leading to worst consequences like catastrophic health conditions and even