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Global Covid cases top 282 million with Omicron surge

Shawdesh Desk: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surged past 282 million, with the new Covid strain Omicron showing a spike in hospitalisation. According to Johns Hopkins University

BNP’s internal feud deepens

Shawdesh Desk; An internal conflict has surfaced in Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) again as many ‘popular’ leaders have already lost party posts and many others have become inactive in the

No legal scope to send Khaleda abroad: Home Minister

Shawdesh desk: As per the opinion of the Law Ministry, there is no scope in the law to allow BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for medical treatment, said

Covid-19: Bangladesh begins booster vaccination

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh on Tuesday morning officially began the administration of booster doses of a Covid-19 vaccine but “on a limited scale”. From 10am, a few hospitals in Dhaka started

Dhaka International Trade Fair begins Jan 1

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) is set to begin at Purbachal of the capital on January 1 with much expectation to repair scar on economy caused by Covid-19

Paing Takhon: Myanmar model gets three years jail for mass protests

Shawdesh Desk: One of Myanmar’s most popular celebrities has been jailed for three years for taking part in mass protests that rocked Myanmar following a military coup last February. Paing

ADB allocates $4.1m to support Covid-19 rural recovery

Shawdesh Desk: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated $4.1 million in technical assistance to help agri-food value chains and rural economies in Asia and the Pacific recover from the impacts

2021 Year in Review: ‘We underestimate this virus at our peril’

Shawdesh Desk; Despite the almost miraculous development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020, the virus continued to spread and mutate throughout the last year, with much of the blame