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India logs 41,649 new Covid-19 cases, 593 new deaths

Shawdesh Desk: India recorded 41,649 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, which pushed the nationwide tally to 31,613,993, and its death toll climbed to

Covid-19: Kushtia sees 7 more deaths in 24 hrs

Shawdesh desk: Kushtia General Hospital reported seven more Covid-related deaths in 24 hours till Saturday morning. “All the seven patients were Covid-19 patients,” said Md Mejbaul Alam, statistics officer of

Global Covid cases top 197 million

Shawdesh desk: As the mass vaccination rates lags, the second wave of the pandemic continues to spread fast with the global Covid-19 caseload sugaring past 197-million mark. Vaccination rates across

Export-oriented factories allowed to run from August 1

Shawdesh Desk: The government of Bangladesh has allowed the operation of export-oriented factories from August 1. A gazette notification signed by deputy-secretary Md Rezaul Islam of cabinet division confirmed the

DGHS for continuation of lockdown

Shawdesh Desk: The Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) has recommended for continuation of the ongoing nationwide lockdown considering the worsening Covid-19 situation. Talking to journalists, Professor Dr ABM Khurshid

MP Ali Ashraf from Cumilla-7 passes away

Shawdesh Desk: MP Ali Ashraf, an Awami League lawmaker from Cumilla and a former deputy speaker, passed away at a city hospital at the age of 73 on Friday. He

Govt sets target to vaccinate 10m people

Shawdesh Desk: The government has set a target to vaccinate around one crore people through its weeklong countrywide vaccination campaign to start from August 7. People will be able to

Helena Jahangir put on 3-day remand

Shawdesh desk: Helena Jahangir was put on three days’ remand on Friday after the businesswoman was arrested from her Gulshan residence in the capital on Thursday midnight. A Dhaka metropolitan