Home adviser warns police of action over failure to control AL processions
Shawdesh desk: Home affairs adviser Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Saturday warned that disciplinary action would be taken against police officials if they failed to control Awami League ReadMore
Infant’s body recovered after 14 hours of drowning in Ctg drain
Shawdesh Desk: The body of the six-month-old child who fell into a roadside drain in Chawkbazar area of Chattogram city was recovered from Chaktai canal in Chamragudamarea of the city ReadMore
Dhaka becomes most polluted city with AQI score of 173
Shawdesh Desk; Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 173 at about 9:00am on ReadMore
Professor Yunus to be successful in bringing positive changes, hopes Fakhrul
Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday expressed the hope that very good things await the nation as interim government head Muhammad Yunus will ReadMore
Abnormal capacity charges show power sector abuse
Shawdesh Desk: Greatly varying capacity charges paid to power companies with similar capacities highlight a chronic ill practice by the past Awami League regime, sending Bangladesh’s economy into a tailspin. ReadMore
Bangladeshi youth tortured by Indians in Lalmonirhat border
Shawdesh Desk: A Bangladeshi youth was allegedly physically tortured by Indian nationals who reportedly tied them to the barbed-wire fence on Lalmonirhat border on Friday. Victim Azinur Rahman, son of ReadMore
Two members of robber gang Karim Bahini arrested in Sunderbans
Two members of the notorious Sunderbans-based robber gang Karim Bahini were arrested during a joint operation by law enforcement agencies on Friday. The arrested were identified as Al Amin and ReadMore
Democracy or plutocracy?
by Lawrence S Wittner : Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy ReadMore
