UK MPs set for knife-edge Brexit deal vote
Shawdesh Desk: British prime minister Boris Johnson appealed to lawmakers to back his last-minute Brexit deal in an extraordinary sitting of the British parliament on Saturday after his plans were ReadMore
Spain’s Barcelona paralysed following Catalan’s protests
Violent clashes escalated in Barcelona late Friday, as radical Catalan separatists hurled rocks and fireworks at police, who responded with teargas and rubber bullets, turning the city centre into a ReadMore
Lead-laced spices consumption continues
Shawdesh Desk: The government has failed to take any effective measure yet to check the adulteration of spices with heavy metals like lead and textile colorants. All that the government ReadMore
Clique amasses fortune from hawkers, rickshaws
Shawdesh Desk: A Clique comprising ruling party leaders, law enforcers and city corporation officials is making crores of taka by allowing thousands of illegal hawkers on footpaths and a huge ReadMore
Woman held in Chandpur on charge of ‘killing daughter’
Shawdesh Desk: Police on Friday arrested a woman after the body of her newborn daughter was recovered from a bush at village Thakurkandi of Matlab Uttar upazila on Wednesday. According ReadMore
Facebook to deliver News Corp stories following mass demand
Shawdesh Desk: Facebook on Friday confirmed that some stories from News Corp, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, will be delivered at a new ‘tab’ planned at the leading social ReadMore
At least 13 killed in Siberian mine accident
At least 13 people were killed as a result of a dam failure at a gold mine in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk early Saturday, the Russian emergencies ministry said. ReadMore
Senate leader slams Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria
Shawdesh Desk: United States senate majority leader Mitch McConnell Friday attacked president Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria as ‘a strategic nightmare’ that will help Washington’s foes and ReadMore
