Politics

8hr hartal against gas price hike today

Shawdesh Desk: Left Democratic Alliance would enforce nationwide eight-hour hartal from 6:00am to 2:00pm today in protest against gas price hike that came into effect from July 1. Leaders of

AL govt controls judiciary: Fakhrul

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the people were not getting justice as the Awami League led government was controlling the

PM returns home

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday came back home wrapping up her five-day official visit to China at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang. A VVIP

PM to brief media on China visit Monday

Sawdesh Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press conference on Monday to brief journalists about the outcomes of her just-concluded visit to China. The press conference will be

Gas tariff hike ‘ill-motivated’, says BNP

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday alleged that the government had raised the gas tariff unfairly only to facilitate those ruling party leaders and businessmen who import Liquefied Natural

Ershad urgently needs blood

Shawdesh Desk: Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad urgently need huge volume of blood following his dialysis on Friday at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital, said Ershad’s personal secretary and also JP

Bangladesh, China ink nine agreements

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh and China on Thursday signed nine instruments for further strengthening cooperation on power, water resources, culture and tourism sectors as well as providing 2,500 metric tonnes of

Attack on Hasina’s Train: 9 BNP men get death, 25 life until death

Shawdesh Desk: A Pabna court today sentenced nine leaders and activists of a BNP-led alliance to death and 25 others to life term imprisonment for an attack on a train