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Passengers suffer as schedules collapse

The rush of Eid travellers appeared to have reached its peak on Friday amidst collapse of schedules of trains and long-route buses, huge traffic gridlocks on highways and at ferry

Dengue claims teenage girl’s life in Thakurgaon

Shawdesh Desk: A teenage girl died of dengue at Dinajpur General Hospital on Friday. The deceased was identified as Opi Rani Saha, 17, daughter of Anukul Chandra Roy of village

Nature, gridlocks disrupt Eid journeys

Shawdesh Desk: Serious disruptions in ferry services and long-route bus movements following the inclement weather, huge rush of cattle-laden vehicles and traffic gridlocks haunted travellers all day long on Thursday

Dengue spreads all over

Shawdesh desk: People with dengue virus leaving the capital for home to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha may infect innumerable people with the virus around the country. On Thursday, one person died of

Muslim pilgrims descend on Makkah for Hajj

Shawdesh Desk: Hundreds of thousands of white-clad pilgrims, many gripping umbrellas to ward off Saudi Arabia’s blistering summer sun, descended on Mecca this week ahead of the annual Hajj. Saudi

Saudi Arabia ready for Hajj amid Gulf tensions

Shawdesh Desk: More than 2.5 million Muslims will on Friday begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, against a backdrop of tensions in

City corporations test adulticide on culex, not aedes

Shadesh Desk: The authorities of the two city corporations in the capital are testing the efficacy of adulticide samples on culex mosquito although this insecticide was imported to eradicate aedes

Blast kills 20 near Cairo hospital

Shawdesh Desk: A midnight explosion following a car crash outside a hospital in central Cairo has left 20 people dead and 47 injured, the health and interior ministries said on