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6,300 flights scrapped as Omicron hits Christmas weekend travel

Shawdesh Desk: More than 6,000 flights have been cancelled worldwide over the long Christmas weekend and thousands more were delayed, a tracking website reported Saturday, as the highly infectious Omicron

13 sentenced to death, 8 get life term in AL leader Zahirul murder case

Shawdesh Desk: A tribunal in Dhaka on Sunday sentenced thirteen people to death and eight others to life term imprisonment in Awami League leader Zahirul Haque murder case. Dhaka Speedy

Jhalakathi launch fire: Search operation in Sugandha going on

Shawdesh Desk: The search drive in the Sugandha River was going on for the 3rd consecutive day on Sunday for tracing those who went missing following a massive fire in

Voting underway in 838 unions in fourth phase of UP polls

Shawdesh Desk: Balloting in the elections to some 834 union Parishads is underway in the fourth phase of the countrywide elections to the lowest tier of the local government. The

Global Covid cases surpass 279 million

Shawdesh Desk: Amid the global scare over new Covid-19 strain Omicron, the overall number of coronavirus cases has crossed 279 million. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case

Much-hyped ‘Dhaka Nagar Paribahan’ rolled out

Shawdesh Desk: The government has finally launched the ‘Dhaka Nagar Paribahan’ under bus route rationalisation programme of the two Dhaka city corporations on trial basis, aiming to streamline the public

James Webb Space Telescope ready to make history

Shawdesh Desk: The biggest space telescope ever conceived is scheduled to go into orbit in the coming hours. The $10bn James Webb Space Telescope will be launched on a European

UK to relax immigration rules for care workers

Shawdesh Desk: Immigration rules are to be temporarily relaxed for overseas care workers in a bid to recruit and keep staff, the government has announced, BBC reported. Social care workers,