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2021 Year in Review: ‘We underestimate this virus at our peril’

Shawdesh Desk; Despite the almost miraculous development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020, the virus continued to spread and mutate throughout the last year, with much of the blame

Transmission infra: The missing link in Bangladesh’s power play

Shawdesh Desk: For an electricity-surplus nation like Bangladesh, Covid as well as inadequate transmission infrastructure seem to be the biggest threat to its resilient power sector and the country’s aggressive

PM leaves Maldives for home

Shawdesh Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Maldives for home today wrapping up her maiden six-day bilateral visit. “A special VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and

Coronavirus vaccine booster dose to be administered from tomorrow

Shawdesh Desk: The government has decided to start administering Covid-19 booster shots from Tuesday. Citizens aged 60 and above would be eligible for receiving the booster doses. The frontliners, including

Jhalakathi launch fire: MV Abhijan-10 owner arrested from Keranigan

Shawdesh Desk: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Hamjalal Sheikh, one of the owners of launch MV ‘Avijan-10’, in connection with the deadly fire incident in the launch

Philippines typhoon death toll rises to 388: govt

Shawdesh Desk: The death toll from one of the most destructive typhoons to hit the Philippines in recent years rose to 388 on Monday, the government said, as disease outbreaks

Train crashes into bus in N’ganj: Death toll reaches 4

Shawdesh Desk: Another man who was injured in train-bus collision at a level-crossing near Narayanganj railway station died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Monday morning, raising the

Global covid cases near 280mn as Omicron wave pounds hospitals

Shawdesh Desk: The global overall number of coronavirus cases is fast approaching 280 million with the new Covid-19 strain Omicron showing a spike in hospitalization. According to Johns Hopkins University