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Erdogan says Turkey becomes 3rd to develop COVID-19 vaccines

Shawdesh desk: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey has become the third country to develop vaccines locally against COVID-19 after the United States and China according

Beirut explosion: Death toll rises to 200

Shawdesh Desk: More than 200 people are believed to have been killed by Tuesday’s devastating explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, its governor has said. Marwan Abboud said dozens were

17 Tablig jamaat members return from India

Shawdesh desk: Seventeen members of Bangladeshi Tablig Jamaat, including eight women, have returned from India through the Benapole Checkpost after serving four months jail in India. Indian immigration police of

Another doctor dies of Covid-19

Shawdesh Desk: Rezwanul Bari Shamim, assistant professor of Orthopedic Surgery in Sirajganj Shaheed M Mansur Ali Medical College, died from coronavirus infections on Sunday noon. He was 49. He breathed

Israeli jeweler makes $1.5m gold coronavirus mask

Shawdesh Desk: An Israeli jewelry company is making what it says the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering with a price tag of $1.5 million, reports

India’s virus deaths top 44,386, cases reach 2,215,074

Shawdesh Desk: India registered 1,007 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s total tally to 44,386 on Monday. Besides, the fresh coronavirus infections surged by another 62,064

US hits 5 million virus cases as Trump criticised over relief package

Shawdesh Desk: The United States on Sunday reached the extraordinary milestone of five million coronavirus cases as President Donald Trump was accused of flouting the constitution by unilaterally extending a

Dhaka Kotwali OC, 5 other cops sued over extortion

Shawdesh Desk: A businessman has filed a case against five policemen, including city’s Kotwali Police Station officer-in-charge Mizanur Rahman, for their alleged involvement in extortion after threatening to kill him