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AL takes to streets as BNP, allies hold rallies

Shawdesh desk: Activists of the ruling Awami League and its associate organisations are on the streets in Dhaka on Wednesday while the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies

Criminal complaint filed in Germany against Myanmar Generals for atrocity

Shawdesh desk: Fortify Rights and 16 individual complainants from Myanmar filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Public Prosecutor General of Germany under the principle of universal jurisdiction against senior

Historic Mass Upsurge Day today

Shawdesh desk: The historic ‘Mass Upsurge Day’, commemorating the 1969’s movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971,

PM asks deputy commissioners to increase food production

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday directed the deputy commissioners to make all-out efforts for increasing food production, to exercise austerity in using electricity and public funds, avoid

Ghost cos launder money, sell imported raw materials in local market

Shawdesh desk: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has identified 53 companies which are listed with the concerned bodies of the government but non-existent. The companies are importing the raw

EVM procurement project suspended, not cancelled, says EC secretary

Shawdesh desk: The government has decided not to proceed with electronic voting machines procurement project for now but it has not been cancelled, said Election Commission Secretary Md Jahangir Alam

PM for larger global support to overcome developing countries’ crisis

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged World Bank and other international organisations to strengthen support to help developing countries like Bangladesh overcome crisis steaming from Covid pandemic

Developed countries must keep food out of the purview of war, sanctions: Agriculture Minister tells Berlin conference

Shawdesh desk: Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque has urged developed countries to keep food and agricultural products out of the purview of war and sanctions. Developed countries should be more responsible