Lead News

5pc tax on saving certificate worth Tk 5 lakh: FM

Shawdesh Desk: Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday made a delayed announcement to withdraw additional 5 per cent tax on income from the saving certificates conditionally. The waiver will

Hope of repatriation before UNGA dashed: FM

Shawdesh Desk: Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Monday said his hope for starting repatriation of Rohingya people before the The United Nations General Assembly in September was dashed as

Flood forces farmers to sell cattle cheap

Shawdesh Desk: The ongoing flood that hit hard 28 districts of the country is compelling farmers to sell their cattle at low prices due to acute fodder crisis, lack of

Mad rush for blood

Shawdesh Desk: Panicked relatives of dengue patients are stressed over collecting blood from the voluntary organisations, relatives, friends and others as an acute crisis of blood intensified in the wake

Three killed during shooting at California food festival

Shawdesh Desk: Police and ambulances raced to a shooting at a food festival in California on Sunday, with three people reported dead and several injured, and video posted on social

Students demand mayors resign

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka University students on Sunday burnt effigies of the health minister and mayors of the capital and demanded their resignations for their failure to control the outbreak of

Mayor Khokon finally admits dengue situation worrying

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka South city mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon on Sunday finally admitted that the dengue situation in Dhaka was now worrying. The mayor made the comment after visiting dengue

Dengue breaks record every day

The numbers of dengue patients hospitalised in a single day and in this year so far have broken the all-time records in Bangladesh on Saturday. According to Health Services health