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  Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama gets vaccine shot

  United News of Bangladesh / AP . Dharmsala | Updated at 10:16am on March 07, 2021

  The Dalai Lama, the 85-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, was administered the first shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday at a hospital in the north...

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  Experts upset at govt’s growing dependence on gas import

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 02:07am on March 07, 2021

  Energy experts at a webinar in Dhaka expressed frustration over the government’s unwillingness on hydrocarbon exploration in the country and growing dependence on gas import...

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  17pc of food production wasted globally: UN report

  Associated Press/United News of Bangladesh . New York | Updated at 11:05pm on March 06, 2021

  Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout. It’s a familiar routine for many — and indicative of habits that...

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  17pc of food production wasted globally: UN report

  Associated Press/United News of Bangladesh . New York | Updated at 11:05pm on March 06, 2021

  Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout. It’s a familiar routine for many — and indicative of habits that...

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  Book on March 7 speech published in UN official languages

  United News of Bangladesh   | Updated at 07:01pm on March 06, 2021

  The Bangladesh embassy in Paris and the permanent mission of Bangladesh to UNESCO unveiled a book titled ‘The Historic 7th March Speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh...

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  WHO urges UN to take steps to boost production of COVID vaccines

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 03:23pm on March 06, 2021

  The head of the World Health Organisation has called for urgent action to increase the production of COVID-19 vaccines for distribution through the UN global...

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  Schoolboy drowns in Sirajganj river

  United News of Bangladesh . Sirajganj | Updated at 01:18pm on March 06, 2021

  A seven-year-old child drowned in River Fuljhor at village Amdanga in Sirajganj on Friday, police said on Saturday...

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  Kushtia-Rajbari rail communications remain suspended for 2nd day

  United News of Bangladesh . Kushtia | Updated at 12:15pm on March 06, 2021

  Regular railway services on the Kushtia-Rajbari route remained suspended for the second day on Saturday due to the derailment of a freight train near Kushtia...

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  Youth killed in Satkhira road accident

  United News of Bangladesh . Khulna | Updated at 10:21am on March 06, 2021

  A man was killed in a road accident on the Khulna-Satkhira highway on Friday...

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  Tashnuva becomes first transgender news presenter of Bangladesh

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 10:07am on March 06, 2021

  Breaking new ground for transgender women in society, Tashnuva Anan Shishir, already renowned as a model and social worker, is set to become the first-ever...