‘Bangladesh a country of religious harmony’
US Ambassador in Dhaka Earl R Miller has said that the allegation Bangladeshi national Priya Saha had made to US President Donald Trump on the minority community is not correct. ReadMore
Hungarian philosopher, critic Agnes Heller passes away
Shawdesh Desk: Philosopher Agnes Heller, a dissident under Hungary’s communist regime and later a prominent critic of prime minister Viktor Orban, died Friday at the age of 90, the Hungarian ReadMore
Six killed, 27 injured in Kabul University blast
Shawdesh Desk: An explosion on Friday near a gate to the campus of Kabul University in the Afghan capital killed six people and injured at least 27 as students waited ReadMore
Imran to meet Trump for mending fences
Shawdesh desk: Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan travels to the United States on Sunday hoping the arrest of a militant leader with a $10 million US bounty on his head ReadMore
Mexican drug lord Guzman sentenced to life imprisonment
Shawdesh desk: Once one of the world’s most powerful and notorious criminals, Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday — the mandatory punishment for ReadMore
US House voters criticise Trump’s ‘racist comments’
Shawdesh Desk: The United States House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority democratic lawmakers and hostile language targeting immigrants, as the president ReadMore
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 ReadMore
52 rescued after cloud burst wrecks havoc in Pakistan
Shawdesh Desk: The Pakistani military rescued 52 people in a remote village of Pakistan’s Neelum Valley where torrential rains triggered off by a cloudburst wreaked havoc in the region, an ReadMore
