Chinese theme park faces backlash for forcing pig to bungee jump
A Chinese theme park has left thousands enraged with a stunt where they forced a pig to bungee jump off a 223-foot high tower. Video footage of the pig squealing ReadMore
5 ex-cops get death for killing 24 people in Hasina’s rally in Chattogram
After long 32 years of the gruesome killing of 24 people attending Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s rally in Chittagong in 1988, a Chattogram court on Monday sentenced five people ReadMore
US Ambassador Miller finds no fault in EVMs
Shawdesh Desk: Expressing the hope that the upcoming elections to the Dhaka south and north city corporations would be participatory, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Robert Earl Miller on Monday said ReadMore
Mass wave in favour of ‘Sheaf of Paddy’: Fakhrul
Shawdesh Desk:BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday carried out electioneering in favour of Tabith Awal, their party’s mayoral candidate in the elections to Dhaka North City Corporation ReadMore
DUCSU VP Nur terms Ziaur Rahman as ‘introducer of multi-party democracy’
Shawdesh Desk: Terming former military strongman Ziaur Rahman as ‘introducer of multi-party democracy’, DUCSU vice president (VP) Nurul Haque Nur has paid homage to the BNP founder through a Facebook ReadMore
Bangladesh to face Scotland on Tuesday
Sports Desk: Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team is set to face Scotland on Tuesday in their second game of the ongoing ICC Under-19 World Cup in South Africa. In the rain-interrupted ReadMore
Indictment hearing in fake birthday case against Khaleda February 11
Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court set February 11 to hold hearing on charge framing in a case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for observing fake birthday on August 15, ReadMore
Solar Pump and the Agricultural Revolution
The agricultural sector employs 40% of the world’s population. Despite this, many of the world’s smallholder farmers have minimal access to modern energy services (such as electricity, mechanical, and thermal ReadMore
