JP to bargain hard over seat sharing
Shawdesh Desk: Jatiya Party is going ahead with a plan to go for hard bargaining over seat sharing with the ruling Awami League or opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in ReadMore
Tea workers’ movement for wage hike still on
Shawdesh Desk: The agitating workers of tea gardens in Habiganj and Moulvibazar have refused to join their work as their demands, including a wage hike, have not been met yet. ReadMore
Global Covid cases top 602 million
Shawdesh Desk: The overall number of Covid cases has now surged past 602 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world. According to the latest global ReadMore
Thai court suspends PM Prayuth Chan-ocha
Shawdesh desk: Thailand’s top court has suspended prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha from official duty while it considers a legal challenge to his term limit. Opposition parties have filed a case ReadMore
Myanmar: No justice, no freedom for Rohingya 5 years on
Shawdesh Desk: Rohingya Muslims are still awaiting justice and protection of their rights five years after the Myanmar military began a sweeping campaign of massacres, rape, and arson in northern ReadMore
Anamul, Taskin miss UAE flight due to visa complications
Sports Desk: Bangladesh batsman Anamul Haque Bijoy and pacer Taskin Ahmed failed to onboard the United Arab Emirates-bound flight with their colleagues due to visa complications to participate in the ReadMore
Group exhibition explores ‘man’, ‘male’, ‘masculine’
Shawdesh Desk: The Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and the Drik Picture Library have jointly organised a group exhibition titled Let No One Mistake Us for the Fruit of Violence exploring ‘man’, ‘male’ ReadMore
South Africa: politics of death
Richard Pithouse: LAST week the tenth anniversary of the massacre of striking miners at Marikana was marked in South Africa. The televised state murder became one of the ruptures in ReadMore
