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Tax, duties on dengue test kits lifted

Shawdesh Desk: National Board of Revenue has lifted import tax, value added tax, advanced tax and advanced income tax on dengue test kits to ease the diagnosis and treatment of

Teenage boy, expectant mother die of dengue in city

Shawdesh Desk: An expectant mother and a teenage boy died of dengue in different hospitals in the capital early Monday. Sharmin Akhter Shapla, 32, wife of Nazmul Hasan, deputy director

None knows when new larvicide will arrive

The government agencies concerned are still unaware about when the new effective insecticide to control aedes mosquitoes responsible for the spread of dengue will arrive in the country. Meanwhile, the

Ensure free treatment for dengue patients: BNP

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday asked the government to provide free treatment to all dengue patients and allocate required subsidy for it. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

PM vows to work till death to fulfil Sheikh Mujib’s dream

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday vowed to work as long as she would be alive to materialise the dream of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Sudanese protesters, military agree to form intermediary govt

Sudan’s military council and the main opposition coalition have reached an agreement to usher in a new period of transitional government, African Union mediator for Sudan Mohamed Hassan Lebatt told

Hajj to begin on August 9

Shawdesh Desk: The Supreme Court of the Saudi Arabia confirmed Thursday that the moon of the Arabic month of Zil-Hajj had been sighted, reports Arab News. The report said Hajj

Blogger Avijit murder: Ziaul among 6 indicted

Shawdesh Desk: A special court in Dhaka on Thursday indicted six people including sacked major Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, a suspected coordinator of banned extremist outfit Ansar-Al-Islam, in the case