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Wholesale arrests, night-time block raids continue across Bangladesh

Shawdesh Desk: Law enforcement agencies have continued arrests, and night-time block raids in many areas of Dhaka and other places across the country as part of their special drive against

Prime minister visits NITOR to see victims of quota protests

Shawdesh desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday morning visited National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation to see the injured people who came under attacks during the recent countrywide

BNP calls for ‘national unity’ on one-point demand

Shawdesh desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called for a ‘national unity’ to press home one-point demand of ousting the Awami League government in the context of conducting mass arrest and

JU teacher resigns protesting at attack on students

Shawdesh Desk: An associate professor of Jahangirnagar University has resigned from his position protesting at ‘brutal attacks’ on students by the government. Zahidul Karim, a teacher of the management studies department, submitted

No decision made on resuming train services: railway DG

Shawdesh Desk: The director general of Bangladesh Railway, Sardar Shahadat Ali, said on Thursday that no decision was made on when railway operations would resume its services. The authorities suspended

Curfew to be lifted once situation normalises: Home Minister

Shawdesh desk: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has announced that the curfew will be lifted once the situation normalises. The exact number of deaths resulting from police firing during the

Malaysia can fully manufacture Perodua car in Bangladesh: PM

Shawdesh desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today invited Malaysia to set up facilities to fully manufacture their Perodua brand car in Bangladesh. She made the call when outgoing Malaysian High

Police on arrest spree after student protests

Shawdesh Desk: Authorities launched a countrywide arrest drive after dozens of cases were filed on charges of acts of sabotage after violent student protests that left at least 157 killed