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UK keen to boost bilateral relationship with Bangladesh: Sarah Cooke

Shawdesh Desk: Newly appointed British high commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke on Monday said that her country was keen to enhance the bilateral trade and investment relationship with Bangladesh. The

Proper security measures taken for Mourning Day: DMP commissioner

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq on Monday said that although there was no specific information on threats targeting National Mourning Day tomorrow, security measures had been

Govt to reward those providing info on Mujib’s killers: Momen

Shawdesh Desk: Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Monday said that the government would reward those who could provide information on the killers of Bangladesh‘s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

PM to inaugurate Dhaka Elevated Expressway on Sept 2

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the Dhaka Elevated Expressway on the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport-Farmgate route on September 2 and the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

OIC, humanitarian partners call for sustained support for Rohingyas and host communities

Shawdesh Desk: A high-level delegation from the OIC and humanitarian partners have called for sustained support for the forcible displaced Myanmar’s rohingya populations temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh amid brutal military

None can come to power by burning people, property: Hasan

Shawdesh Desk: Pointing to BNP, Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said none can come to power by hurling petrol bombs, burning people, setting fire to properties and

No scope for consensus as BNP wants govt to step down, Momen tells US congressmen

Shawdesh Desk: Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday conveyed to visiting United States congressmen Ed Case and Richard McCormick that there was no scope for reaching any consensus as

Govt now staging extremism drama: BNP

Shawdesh Desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday alleged that the government had started staging ‘extremism drama’ to divert public attention from the opposition’s ongoing one-point movement to