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Covid-19: 42 more die, 2,995 test positive in 24hrs

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh on Wednesday reported 42 more deaths and 2,295 new cases of infection testing 14,751 samples in the last 24 hours. With this, the death toll from the

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70pc Bangladeshi returnee migrants struggling to find jobs: IOM

Shawdesh Desk: Nearly 70 percent of surveyed migrants who returned to Bangladesh between February and June remained unemployed, according to a study covering 12 districts. The findings are presented in

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Bomb, bomb-making materials recovered in Sylhet

Shawdesh Desk: Police recovered a powerful bomb and materials used to make bomb from the house of suspected Neo-JMB member Sanaul Islam Sadi in Sylhet city’s Jalalabad residential area on

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Irregularities in Health sector: ACC interrogates ex-DGHS DG Azad

Shawdesh desk: The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has started interrogating five accused, including former Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Professor Dr Abul Kalam Azad, over

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Gonoshasthaya’s plasma centre to be opened Aug 15

Shawdesh desk: The Plasma and Blood Donation Centre set up by Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be opened on August 15. Dr MA Khan,

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New York’s true nursing home Covid-19 death toll cloaked in secrecy

Shawdesh dEsk: Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in

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World coronavirus cases pass 20 million mark

Shawdesh Desk: The world is marking a grim milestone today with the number of people who have been infected with Covid-19 passing 20 million. There have been more than 736,000

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India to get a vaccine by December, says a confident SII head Adar Poonawalla

Shawdesh desk: As COVID cases continue to record alarming one-day hikes in the country, scientists are working round the clock to develop a vaccine which will be able to put

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