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Christmas today

Shawdesh Desk: Today is Christmas, the birthday of Jesus Christ. Christians of Bangladesh and across the world will celebrate the day amid festivity and religious fervour. They will celebrate the

Launch fire: 27 unidentified bodies buried in mass grave

Shawdesh Desk: Bodies of 27 unidentified people killed in a deadly fire on a Barguna-bound launch MV Abhijan-10 on the Sugandha river in Jhalakathi have been buried in a mass

Ex-president of BFUJ and Jatiya Press Club Riazuddin Ahmed passes away

Shawdesh Desk: Former president and general secretary of undivided Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and ex-president of Jatiya Press Club Reazuddin Ahmed has passed away at a hospital in the

Tourist bus bound for Brazil’s Brasilia crashes, killing 5

Shawdesh Desk: A tourist bus leaving the Sao Paulo State for Brasilia crashed early Friday, killing five and injuring 50, according to the fire department of the Goias State in

US Navy warship sidelined with COVID-19 outbreak

Shawdesh Desk: A U.S. Navy warship has paused its deployment to South America because of a coronavirus outbreak, the Navy said Friday. The USS Milwaukee, a litorral combat ship, is

Ensuring “smooth and inclusive” graduation is key to Bangladesh: Ambassador Danzi

Shawdesh Desk: Describing the LDC graduation as an important milestone and a remarkable feat for Bangladesh, Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Ambassador Patricia Danzi

Global Covid cases near 279 million with two years of trauma

Shawdesh Desk: With the new Covid-19 strain Omicron surging, the overall number of coronavirus cases is fast approaching 279 million, causing nearly two years of collective trauma, UNB reported. According

Covid: US airlines scrap hundreds of flights amid Omicron surge

Shawdesh Desk: Airlines in the US are continuing to be hit hard by cancellations as a spike in Omicron variant cases causes global travel disruption over Christmas. A quarter of