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Bangladesh’s businesses to be affected if Jan 7 election not fair: EC

Shawdesh desk: Election commissioner Anisur Rahman on Sunday said that there was a possibility that the country’s trade and commerce would be affected if the January 7 general election was

PM Sheikh Hasina launches free textbook distribution among students

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday launched the distribution of free textbooks among students up to the secondary level for the academic year 2024. The PM inaugurated the

BNP declares two-day mass contact programme again

Shawdesh desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday announced a two-day mass contact and leaflet distribution program as part of their programmes to boycott the January 7 general

Local, foreign conspiracies on to bring third party to power: PM

Shawdesh desk: Ruling Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that the people of Bangladesh would give a befitting reply with votes to the local and

DIG Anwar says police are not partial, all candidates are equal

Shawdesh Desk: All candidates of the upcoming national election are equal to police and there is no partiality from them, said deputy inspector general (operation) of police Md Anwar on

Reception Lounge set up at Shahjalal for int’l observers, journalists

Shawdesh desk: Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka is ready to receive the observers, delegates and journalists coming to Bangladesh for the next general election scheduled to be held on

Govt turns prisons into concentration camps: BNP

Shawdesh Desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party alleged on Friday that the ruling Awami League as well as the government had turned the country’s jails into concentration camps. ‘They

Another dies as polls violence intensifies

Shawdesh desk: The factional clash between supporters of the ruling Awami League during the campaign for the January 7 general election left one person killed in Barishal while scores of