Record fuel price hike triggers huge queues
Shawdesh desk: Thousands of Bangladeshis besieged fuel stations across the country after the government raised prices by as much as 52 percent, the largest jump on record, on the back ReadMore
Fuel price hike: Transport owners to meet with BRTA this afternoon
Shawdesh desk: Transport owners have demanded that bus fares be adjusted with fuel prices. They will sit in a meeting with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) at 5 pm ReadMore
Govt defends fuel price hike, terms it indispensable to reduce loss of BPC
Shawdesh Desk: The government has defended recent hike in price of diesel, petrol and octane that the same was needed in view of high international market and recurring loss of ReadMore
Bomb kills 8 in Shiite area of Afghan capital
Shawdesh desk: A bomb attached to a handcart exploded in Kabul on Friday, officials said, killing eight civilians in an area largely inhabited by Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslim community. The blast, which ReadMore
Blaze kills firefighter’s 10 relatives, 3 of them children
Shawdesh Desk: Fire tore quickly through a house in northeastern Pennsylvania early Friday morning, killing seven adults and three children and horrifying a volunteer firefighter who arrived to battle the ReadMore
North Korea slams Pelosi over visit to DMZ
Shawdesh desk: North Korea on Saturday slammed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her recent visit to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, calling her the “worst destroyer of international peace”. ReadMore
Life-term convict arrested in Rangpur
Shawdesh desk: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an absconding life-term convict in an abduction and gang rape case from Lalbag Rail Gate area in the city on Friday night. “Based ReadMore
Momen calls on Foreign Minister of Lao PDR
Shawdesh desk: Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen called on the Foreign Minister of Lao PDR Saleumxay Kommasith in Cambodia, on Saturday. The meeting reviewed the whole gamut of the existing ReadMore
