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New law to ensure rapist’s death penalty: Minister

Shawdesh Desk: Law Minister Anisul Huq has said law is being formulated keeping death sentence as the highest punishment for rapists. He came up with the observation while talking to

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Covid-19: 20 more die, 1,441 test positive in 24hrs

Shawdesh desk: Bangladesh reported 20 new deaths from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking a total of 5,460. Another 1,441 coronavirus patients are found in 24 hours,

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6k families homeless in Koira as rivers swallow land

Shawdesh Desk: “The pain that riverbank erosion has caused over the past decade is immense. I have lost everything to the natural calamity — my home, my livelihood,” says Rabiul

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Govt preparing district hospitals with ICU to tackle 2nd wave of COVID-19: PM

Shawdesh Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government is taking all-out preparations to keep the district hospitals ready with ICU and necessary oxygen to effectively encounter the

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One stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds: Joint UN report

Shawdesh desk: Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year – or 1 every 16 seconds – according to the first ever joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, WHO, the

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HRW urges Myanmar to end mass detention of Rohingya in Rakhine

Shawdesh Desk: The Myanmar government should urgently end the arbitrary and indefinite detention of approximately 130,000 Rohingya Muslims in squalid and abusive camps in Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said

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Samrat returns to jail staying one year in hospital

Shawdesh dEsk: Former Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat on Thursday returned to jail after staying around one year in hospital. Samrat, the alleged kingpin of the illegal casino

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3 more body parts of Noakhali woman recovered, case filed

Shawdesh Desk: Police recovered three more body parts of Nur Jahan, who was horrifically killed and cut into pieces, from a paddy field in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali on Wednesday

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