Mushfiqur Rahim to give up wicket-keeping in Tests
Sports Desk: Senior Bangladesh cricketer Mushfiqur Rahim has decided not to keep wickets in Test cricket in-order to minimize his workload and prolong his career. The 32-year-old Mushfiqur, who was ReadMore
Helicopter fire on IS-linked fighters kills 9 in NW Syria: monitor
Shawdesh desk: Helicopter gunfire early Sunday killed nine people near a northwestern Syrian village where “groups linked to the Islamic State group” were present, a Britain-based war monitor with sources ReadMore
Warner’s birthday T20 ton as Australia slam Sri Lanka
Sports Desk: David Warner emphatically bounced back to form with a first-ever Twenty20 century as Australia crushed Sri Lanka by 134 runs in their opening match of the series in ReadMore
Trump asked aide to ‘screw Amazon out’ of defence contract
Shawdesh Desk: US President Donald Trump had directed his former Defence Secretary James Mattis to “screw Amazon’ out of Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, his former speechwriter and communications ReadMore
Secularism in the Context of Bangladesh
Farzana Mahmood Secularism as a modern concept is aligned to the same modern concept of equality, freedom and democracy. Secularism anywhere in the world works as the antidote of communalism, ReadMore
Curtain falls on Heritage Handloom Festival
Shawdesh Desk: Entrepreneurs and designers from across the country showcased traditional and heritage products at the four-day ‘Heritage Handloom Festival-2019’ that ended here on Saturday. The festival organised by SME ReadMore
Obayashi’s 40-year career defined by warning of war’s horror
Shawdesh Desk: At 81, Nobuhiko Obayashi has terminal lung cancer, but his confrontation with death began so long ago it has characterized his decades of filmmaking. Obayashi has stayed true ReadMore
Sonu Rani’s failure: a bellwether for the Harijans?
Sonu Rani Das, the lone graduate from the Harijan community here, wanted to be a teacher to establish her own language, but could not yet materialise the dream. Sonu was ReadMore
