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Monsoon toll tops 553 in South Asia

Shawdesh Desk: Severe floods and lightning have claimed the lives of more than 553 people across India, Nepal, and Pakistan, officials said Monday as the annual monsoon took its toll

Sedition case against Priya Saha dismissed

Hours after filing of a sedition case against Priya Biswas Saha for her comments “against the state” during a meeting with the US President Donald Trump, a Dhaka court dismissed

Foreign Minister Momen Urges US Congressmen For Myanmar

Shawdesh Desk: Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has urged US lawmakers to persuade Myanmar to create a safer environment in the Rakhine State and take back all their forcibly displaced

India ‘dosa king’ dies of heart attack

Shawdeh Desk: The Indian owner of the global restaurant chain Saravana Bhavan, who was convicted of murder, has died of a heart attack at the age of 71. P

Asylum seekers worriedly cross into US as new procedure kicks in

Shawdesh desk: Fear over new United States curbs on almost all asylum seekers spread this week among migrants at its southern border, but some on waiting lists in Mexican cities

ICC team in Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya crisis

Shawdesh Desk: A delegation of the International Criminal Court, led by its Deputy Prosecutor James Kirkpatrick Stewart, arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday morning on a weeklong visit to Bangladesh to

Death toll in Nepal floods rises to 55

Shawdesh Desk: The death toll in Nepal from flash floods and landslides in the past three days rose to 55 yesterday, with dozens missing and injured, the government said. Ten

Fresh allegations of war crimes in Rakhine

Shawdesh Desk: When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn’t know whether