Smith joins greats with 10,000 Test runs
Sports Desk: Australia’s Steve Smith joined a select group of batsmen to reach 10,000 Test runs on Wednesday during the first morning of the opening Test against Sri Lanka. Smith ReadMore
Trains start to run as BR staffs withdraw strike
Shawdesh Desk: The running staff members of the Bangladesh Railway withdrew their indefinite work abstention programme in the early hours of Wednesday following which trains started to run across the ReadMore
Dhaka becomes 5th most polluted city with AQI score of 248
Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked the fifth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 248 at ReadMore
15 people killed in India stampede at Hindu mega-fest Kumbh Mela
Shawdesh Desk: A stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at the Kumbh Mela festival told AFP ReadMore
Senior journalist Nizam Uddin Ahmed dies
Shawdesh desk: Business editor of The Daily Observer Nizam Uddin Ahmed died while undergoing treatment at a city hospital early Wednesday. He was 71. Journalist Nizam Uddin breathed his last ReadMore
CIB officials denied access to database
Shawdesh DEsk: Officials of the Credit Information Bureau at Bangladesh Bank have been denied access to the CIB database for over a year and a half, allegedly to conceal borrowers’ ReadMore
BOAT ADRIFT: AL’s journey through power and paradox – II
THE assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975 did not merely topple a man — it sent a shockwave through the very soul of BAKSAL. Once the beacon of ReadMore
