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Yunus gets Lamp of Peace of St Francis award

Shawdesh Desk: The Vatican honoured Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus with the ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’ at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Italian city of Assisi on Tuesday.

Five Chinese tourists killed in NZ bus accident

Shawdesh Desk: At least five Chinese nationals were killed and another six injured when a tourist bus veered off a highway and flipped during bad weather in New Zealand’s North

Dorian death toll raises to seven

Shawdesh Desk: Hurricane Dorian churned along the south-eastern coast of the United States on Tuesday as the storm’s death toll in the Bahamas rose to seven. The hurricane is weakening

IU teachers slam UGC’s uniform recruitment policy

Shawdesh Desk: A section of Islamic University teachers formed a human chain on the campus demanding cancellation of the University Grants Commission’s proposal for uniform policy on the recruitment and

Bangladesh plans toll on highways

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to impose toll on all the major highways across the country to raise funds for their maintenance. The

Body to ease gridlocks in hibernation

Shawdesh Desk: A committee formed with Dhaka South City mayor Sayeed Khokon as the head to ease the capital’s traffic congestion within past August could not even start its work

HK police fire beanbag rounds on protesters

Shawdesh Desk: Hong Kong police fired beanbag rounds and used pepper spray in late night skirmishes with pro-democracy protesters, broadcaster RTHK said on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have

ADB to fund four highway projects

Shawdesh Desk: The Asian Development Bank would fund projects for extending four highways into four lanes under roads and highways department. The highways — Dhaka-Sylhet, Rangpur-Banglabandha, Rangpur-Burimari and Faridpur-Barishal —