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Brazil virus toll hits 50,000 as Spain reopens borders

Shawdesh desk: Brazil registered its 50,000th death from the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, underlining Latin America’s desperate struggle to contain the disease, as Europe’s gradual emergence from lockdown was marked

Liberation War Affairs Minister Mozammel returns home from hospital

Shawdesh Desk: After winning the battle against coronavirus or COVID-19, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque has returned home from Combined Military Hospital (CMH) of Dhaka. He returned his

Another Bangladesh Bank official dies of Covid-19

Shawdesh Desk: Another Bangladesh Bank official has died from COVID-19 – the second known fatality caused by the new coronavirus among the officials and employees of the central bank of

Doa mahfil for Mashrafe held in Narail

Sports Desk: A doa mahfil and discussion was held on Monday at Zilla Awami League office in the city seeking blessings for former Bangladesh cricket team captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza,

Saudi downturn deepens Yemen’s economic despair

Shawdesh Desk: On top of war and the coronavirus pandemic, Yemen faces looming economic disaster as a crisis gripping its main benefactor Saudi Arabia dents remittances and leaves state coffers

Covid-19: 39 die, 3,531 infected, 1,084 recover in 24 hours

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh on Sunday recorded 39 deaths from coronavirus in the span of 24 hours, raising the death toll to 1,464. The number of total COVID-19 patients also surged

Trump says he wanted testing slowed down, uses racist term for coronavirus

Shawdesh Desk: In a shocking admission during his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday night, President Donald Trump said he had told officials to slow down coronavirus testing because of the

US hospitals step up use of steroids on corona patients

Shawdesh Desk: Several US hospitals in states with fresh surges of COVID-19 cases have started treating their sickest patients with dexamethasone rather than await confirmation of preliminary results of a