Ex-BNP MP arrested, placed on 2-day remand for comments on Hasina
Shawdesh Desk: A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Sunday allowed the police to take former Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker for reserved seat for women, Sultana Ahmed, under their custody ReadMore
Accident compensation can ensure waterway accountability
FAMILIES of victims of the Panchagarh boat capsize are in deep economic despair as the government support for them was momentary and the legal scope for compensation in the case ReadMore
Pakistan grab unexpected lifeline to reach semis
Sports Desk: Fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi returned career-best figures of 4-22 to lead Pakistan into the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with a five-wicket win over Bangladesh in a do-or-die ReadMore
‘Adim’ bags ‘Best of the Fest’ award at Queens World Film Festival
Binodon Desk: Young Bangladeshi filmmaker Juboraj Shamim-directed feature film Adim won the Best of the Fest award at the 12th Queens World Film Festival in Queens, New York, USA on ReadMore
US isolated on UN vote against Cuba blockade
Roger D Harris writes on the heaviness of imperialist sanctions and the lightness of the liberal’s lament FOR the 30th consecutive United Nations vote, the US again lost. A landslide margin ReadMore
Court issues arrest warrant against Tarique, Zubaida in graft case
Shawdesh Desk: The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court on Tuesday accepted the charges against opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman in a ReadMore
All at once mainstream pundits push for WW III
MAINSTREAM punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt, ReadMore
