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Buriganga launch capsize: Mayur-2 master on 3-day remand

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka Court on Tuesday put Abul Bashar Mollah, the master of Mayur-2 launch, on a three-day remand in connection with the launch capsize in the Buriganga River

Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul dies of Covid-19

Shawdesh Desk: Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul died of Covid-19 on Monday afternoon while undergoing treatment at a city hospital. He was 74. He was tested positive for Covid-19

Covid-19: More 39 die, 3,099 test positive, 4,703 recover in last 24 hours

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh on Monday saw the detection of another 3,099 coronavirus patients in 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 1,86,894. During the period the country registered

JKG chairman Dr Sabrina put on 3-day remand

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday granted a three-day remand for quizzing Dr Sabrina Arif Chaudhury, chairman of Jobeda Khatun Health Care (JKG), who was arrested on Sunday for

Teesta flowing above danger level; red alert issued

Shawdesh Desk: Due to onrush of water from upstream and incessant rainfall, water of Teesta River is now flowing 52 centimetres above the danger level at Teesta Barrage point in

NBR freezes bank accounts of Shahed, Sabrina

Shawdesh Desk: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has frozen all the personal and institutional bank accounts of Regent Hospital Chairman Md Shahed, JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif

US bases on Okinawa locked down over virus spike

Shawdesh Desk; Two US Marine bases in Japan’s Okinawa have been put into lockdown after dozens of coronavirus infections, with local officials criticising the American military’s containment efforts. Additional restrictions

Russian university successfully completes trials of world’s 1st Covid-19 vaccine

Shawdesh desk: The clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers at Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University has been successfully completed, Vadim Tarasov, the director of the