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Commission formed to re-investigate BDR carnage

Shawdesh Desk: Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said on Monday that the government has formed a seven-member commission to re-investigate the BDR carnage committed in February 2009.

Dhaka seeks return of Hasina

Shawdesh desk: Dhaka has sought return of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India for shelter on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising, through a diplomatic channel.

ACC approves cases against ex-BB official SK Shur Chowdhury, family

Shawdesh Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday approved filing three case against former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank SK Sur Chowdhury, his wife Suparna Sur Choudhury and daughter Nandita Sur

Political violence rises

Shawdesh Desk: Political violence in Bangladesh rises again with nine more people killed in November against four killings in October. The killings from the political violence came down in October

Hassan Ariff’s death: Govt declares one-day state mourning Monday

Shawdesh Desk: The government on Sunday declared a one-day state mourning for Monday at the death of Civil Aviation and Tourism and Land Adviser AF Hassan Ariff. Hasan Ariff died

Trainee doctors block Shahbagh crossing demanding increase in salary

Shawdesh Desk: Postgraduate trainee doctors have blocked Shahbagh intersection demanding an increase in their monthly allowance or the 9th grade pay scale, leading to traffic congestion in the surrounding areas.

Saad’s follower placed on 3-day remand over clash at Ijtema venue

Shawdehs Desk: A Gazipur court on Sunday placed Mufti Muaz bin Noor, a follower of Maulana Saad Kandlavi, on a three-day remand in a case over the violent clashes between

1 killed, 11 injured in vehicle collisions on Dhaka-Mawa expressway

Shawdesh desk: Multiple-vehicle collisions, caused by dense fog, on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway, on Sunday morning left one person dead and 11 injured. Police said that the accidents took place at