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Bangladesh to sign tripartite deal to import power from Nepal soon: adviser

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh is poised to sign the tripartite agreement with Nepal and India soon to import hydropower from Nepal via Indian transmission lines, according to power, energy and mineral

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Four dead, scores injured in sectarian violence in Bangladesh’s hill districts

Shawdesh Desk: At least four ethnic minority men were killed and scores were injured as a wave of sectarian violence swept the restive hill districts of Khagrachhari and Rangamati, sending

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Nahid denies claims of internet shutdown in Chittagong Hill Tracts

Shawdesh desk: Posts, telecommunication and information technology adviser Md Nahid Islam on Saturday said internet was not shut down by the government in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. ‘There were isolated

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Modi not expected to meet Yunus on UNGA sidelines

Shawdesh desk: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not expected to meet Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly next week, people familiar

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Nobody has the right to take law into their own hands: Home Adviser

Shawdesh desk: Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday said that no one holds the right to take the law into their own hands. “If anyone

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Al Jazeera unveils Bangladesh’s ex-land minister’s property empire

Shawdesh desk: An investigation by Al Jazeera has exposed how former Bangladesh land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury built a half-billion-dollar property empire despite earning a modest official salary. Bangladesh’s strict currency

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S Alam takes Tk 3,287cr in power capacity charge

Shawdesh Desk: The coal-based 1,224MW Banshkhali power station, owned by the controversial S Alam group, realised up to more than double the amount received by its peers in capacity charge

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BNP to meet same fate if it follows AL footprint: Fakhrul

Shawdesh Desk: Calling upon his party’s rank and file to stay aside from acts of repression, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that his party will meet

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