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Helping poor in Bangladesh: WB approves $600 mn for 2 projects

Shawdesh Desk: The World Bank has approved $600 million for two projects in Bangladesh to help over 1.75 million poor and vulnerable populations. These two projects will include youths, women,

Dhaka seeks strong global response to end Palestinian crisis permanently

Shawdesh Desk: Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has urged the international community to take urgent and decisive action to resolve the longstanding crisis in

Trader murdered in front of son: Accused Manik killed in ‘gunfight’

Shawdesh Desk: An accused in a case filed in connection with stabbing a trader to death in front of his son in Dhaka’s Pallabi area has been killed in a

BTRC to launch NEIR on July 1 to block illegal handsets

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will launch the operations of the National Equipment Identity Register (NEIR) system from July 1 to curb the use of illegal mobile handsets.

Jaishankar admits failure of fulfilling commitments of vaccine supply

Shawdesh Desk: External Affairs Minister of India Dr S Jaishankar admits ‘dishonoring commitments ‘ for supplying vaccines to other countries as it ‘India is going through a particularly difficult situation

Israel-Palestinian ceasefire comes into force

Shawdesh Desk: A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip, came into force early Friday after 11 days of deadly fighting that pounded the

Global Covid cases top 165 million

Shawdesh Desk: Covid-19 continues its onslaught across the world, even with mass inoculations underway. The overall number of corona cases has now topped 165 million. The total cases and fatalities

India records 2.59 lakh new Covid-19 cases in 24 hrs, fatalities go above 4,000

Shawdesh Desk: The number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases recorded in India in the last 24 hours dipped to 2.59 lakh, the Union health ministry data showed on Friday. With