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NKorea puts border city in lockdown over suspected outbreak

Shawdesh Desk: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong near the border with South Korea under total lockdown after a person was found with suspected COVID-19

Covid-19: 54 more die, 2,275 test positive, 1,792 recover in 24 hours

Shawdesh desk: Bangladesh on Sunday saw the detection of another 2,275 coronavirus patients in 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 223,453. During the period the country registered

Flood situation mostly stable in B’putra basin

Shawdesh Desk: The flood situation remained mostly stable in eight northern districts with further fall in the rate of onrushing water amid almost no monsoon rains in the Brahmaputra basin

Govt fixes rawhide price for sacrificial animals

Shawdesh Desk: The government on Sunday announced the prices of different types of rawhides from animals sacrificed during Eid-ul-Azha. The decision came from an online meeting on Sunday with Commerce

Flooding takes serious turn

Shawdesh Desk: Rise in water level of the rivers in the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins further worsened the flood situation in Rajshahi and Rangpur regions. Water level rose at 11

Regent Group chief Shahed placed on 28-day fresh remand

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court has placed Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed on a 28-day fresh remand in four fraud cases — seven days for each case — filed against

Four killed in Cumilla road crash

Shawdesh Desk: Four people were killed and five others injured as a truck collided head-on with a human hauler on the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Burichong upazila of Cumilla on Sunday.

Hurricane Hanna batters southern Texas

Shawdesh desk: Hurricane Hanna has made landfall in southern Texas, with US officials warning of life-threatening storm surge, strong winds and heavy rains. Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration