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EU polls mission holds meeting with FM Momen, BNP leaders

Shawdesh desk: A delegation of the European Union Election Expert Mission to Bangladesh 2023 held meetings with Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and the BNP leaders in Sylhet on

Mass media makes people sometimes puzzled: CEC

Calling upon the media professionals to be more careful in practicing objective journalism, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal has said that the mass media makes people sometimes perplexed

Attacks on independent candidates isolated incidents: Quader

Shawdesh desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that the attacks being carried out on independent candidates allegedly by Awami League workers and supporters are isolated incidents. He said,

Attack on journalist on Oct 28 won’t be spared: PM

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the culprits involved in inhuman torture on journalists on October 28 would not be spared. ‘The country had witnessed a lot

‘Not casting vote’ is a right too: NHRC chairman

The National Human Rights Commission chairman, Kamal Uddin Ahmed, on Thursday said that casting vote for anyone was a right while ‘not casting vote’ was also a right. The NHRC

BNP announces two-day mass contact programme again

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

Verdict in graft case against Mirza Abbas deferred for third time

Shawdesh desk: A special judge court in Dhaka on Thursday deferred the delivery of the verdict in a graft case, filed in 2007, against main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing

Four killed as picnic bus collides with pick-up van in Cox’s Bazar

Shawdesh Desk: At least four people were killed and eight others injured in a head-on collision between a pick-up van and a picnic bus on Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram highway in Harbang