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Bangladesh urgently seeks 1.6mn AstraZeneca doses from UK

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh urgently seeks 1.6mn AstraZeneca doses from UK After its request to the United States, Bangladesh has urged the United Kingdom (UK) to help it by providing vaccine

Govt to widen social safety net in FY22

Shawdesh Desk: The government is going to expand its social safety net in the upcoming budget in a bid to safeguard people whose livelihoods have become vulnerable due to the

Restrictions on movement of passengers through Indo-Bangla land ports extended till May 31

Shawdesh desk: The government has extended restrictions on the movement of passengers through land ports with India up to May 31 as India’s surge in coronavirus cases continues. Although borders

Helping poor in Bangladesh: WB approves $600 mn for 2 projects

Shawdesh Desk: The World Bank has approved $600 million for two projects in Bangladesh to help over 1.75 million poor and vulnerable populations. These two projects will include youths, women,

Dhaka seeks strong global response to end Palestinian crisis permanently

Shawdesh Desk: Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima has urged the international community to take urgent and decisive action to resolve the longstanding crisis in

BTRC to launch NEIR on July 1 to block illegal handsets

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will launch the operations of the National Equipment Identity Register (NEIR) system from July 1 to curb the use of illegal mobile handsets.

Court sets Sunday for Rozina’s bail order

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court has set Sunday for passing an order on bail petition of journalist Rozina Islam of Prothom Alo in a case filed under the Official Secrets

36 Covid-19 deaths recorded in last 24 hours in country

Shawdesh Desk: Thirty-six more people in the country died of coronavirus or Covid-19 infection in the last 24 hours. With this, the number of death toll now stands at 12,