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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

Khaleda’s bail hearing in Zia Charitable graft case Tuesday

Shwadesh desk: The High Court is scheduled to hear the bail petition of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case on Tuesday. The bench

Private hospitals charge high dengue tests fees

Shawdesh Desk: Private hospitals in the capital are cashing in on the dengue scourge, charging exorbitant fees for dengue diagnosis and other associated tests for such patients. The fee for

Floods inundate new areas

Shawdesh Desk: Many of the protection embankments that withstood swelling rivers for more than two weeks began to give in as onrush of water from upstream resumed with renewed strength

Government links opposition with lynching to hide failure: Fakhrul

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the government was out to link the opposition activists with the incidents of lynching across

Dengue under control, claims LGRD minister Tajul Islam

Shawdesh Desk: LGRD minister Md Tajul Islam on Thursday claimed that the dengue situation was under control. ‘We’ve taken it as a challenge and dengue is fully under control because

Renu murder prime suspect Ridoy on 5-day remand

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court today placed Ibrahim Ridoy, the prime accused in the killing of Taslima Begum Renu by a mob on Saturday in Dhaka’s Uttar Badda, on a

‘Those behind deaths in mob beating will be punished’

Shawdesh Desk: Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said those who are behind the recent incidents of deaths in mob beatings over rumour of child kidnapping will be brought to