Myanmar generals shut down internet as thousands protest coup
Reuters: Myanmar’s junta shut down the internet in the country on Saturday as thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon to denounce this...
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Satkhira court jails 50 including a former BNP lawmaker
A Satkhira court has jailed 50 people, including a former BNP lawmaker, for varying terms over an attack on Sheikh Hasina’s motorcade in Satkhira in...
Anti-coup protest on streets of Myanmar’s second city
A group of protesters waved banners and chanted anti-coup slogans in Myanmar’s second city of Mandalay on Thursday in the first such street protest against...
Modi’s response to farmer protests in India stirs fears of a pattern
First came the accusations of foreign infiltration. Police complaints against protest leaders followed, as did arrests of protesters and journalists. Then the government blocked internet...
Muslim women subjected to systematic rape, sexual abuse in China
Women in China’s system of detention camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang were subject to rape, sexual abuse...
Facebook disrupted in Myanmar as UN chief warns coup must fail
Facebook services in Myanmar were disrupted on Thursday, days after the army seized power, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned the world must rally to...
PM for research, crops mapping to boost production
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid emphasis on research and crops zone mapping, saying different varieties of crops have to be cultivated on the basis of...
21 named for Ekushey Padak this year
Online Desk :The government has named 21 people, including poet Quazi Rosy, writer Ghulam Murshid and actor Raisul Islam Asad, for the Ekushey Padak award....
Facebook faces a reckoning in Myanmar after blocked by military
The Myanmar military’s shutdown of Facebook access following the ouster of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi caps years of tension between the social...
8 Pvt medical college form submission suspended over extra fees
Dhaka University has postponed online form submission for professional exams of eight private medical colleges affiliated with it over allegations they were charging students up...
Govt declares six sectors free from child labour
The government has declared the six sectors — tannery, ceramic, glass, ship re-cycling and export-oriented leather, silk and footwear — free from child labour. State...
Tigers lose two early wickets after Windies bundled out for 259
Bangladesh are off to a stuttering start in the second innings, losing Tamim Iqbal and Nazmul Hossain Shanto for ducks after bundling out the West...