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Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Medicine Prize

Shawdesh desk: Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paaabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize. ‘By revealing genetic

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No security threats during Durga Puja: RAB DG

Shawdesh Desk: Adequate arrangements have been made to ensure security for the celebration of Durga Puja without any trouble, said newly-appointed Rapid Action Battalion director general M Khurshid Hossain on

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PM leaves Washington for Dhaka via London

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has left Washington DC for Dhaka wrapping up her 18-day official visit to the United Kingdom and the United States. A VVIP chartered flight

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Dhaka’s air quality in ‘moderate’ zone with an AQI score of 95

Shawdesh desk: Dhaka’s air quality was in ‘moderate’ zone on Monday morning. With an air quality index score of 95 at 9:00am on Monday, the metropolis ranked 14th in the

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Khaleda to lead simultaneous movement, says Fakhrul

Shawdesh desk: Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said their planned simultaneous movement with different political parties to oust the Awami League government would

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After devastating Florida, Hurricane Ian rakes South Carolina

Shawdesh desk: Deadly Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States, roared into South Carolina on Friday, delivering a powerful second punch after walloping

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Efforts underway to repatriate war criminals, Mujib’s killers: PM

Shawdesh desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said that war criminals and death row fugitive convicts in Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman killing case, who are currently staying in

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RAB not violating law, human rights: new DG

Shawdesh desk: Newly-appointed director general of Rapid Action Battalion M Khurshid Hossain said on Saturday that there was no question of reforming the anti-crime elite force, which had been credited

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