Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the country’s people to keep up the pace of the economic progress that the country has achieved in the great stride of all to build “Sonar Bangla”.

Afghanistan’s ambassador to China left a colourful resignation note for his post-Taliban takeover successor yesterday -- revealing that staff had not been paid for months and that a lone receptionist had been left to answer phones.

Saifuddahar Shahid, the creator of the first Bangla computer keyboard “Shahidlipi” passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday at the age of 74.

The government yesterday decided that only those vaccinated would be allowed to staff vehicles and vessels.

Rab-15 arrested a Rohingya for smuggling around five lakh yaba pills into the country in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday night.

With less than three months’ training, Poly Khatun and Mim Akhter, children from the slums of Mirpur, have defeated internationally rated chess players. 

Britain yesterday put the biggest private health companies on high alert to deliver crucial treatments should Omicron overwhelm National Health Service hospitals in England.

Four High Court judges have been elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday, raising the judges’ number to eight.

The driver of Meghla Paribahan bus, which hit and killed two pedestrians in the capital’s Gulistan on Saturday, used to drive the bus with a light-vehicle licence.

Although the atmosphere surrounding the Narayanganj city polls is still peaceful, locals believe candidates will face a big challenge maintaining it as internal conflicts between parties and leaders have started coming to light.

Vikram K Doraiswami, the Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka, has discouraged Bangladeshis from travelling to the neighbouring country unless if it is absolutely essential.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, to eight years’ imprisonment in a graft case.

Six bodies were recovered from Buriganga river in Narayanganj yesterday, four days after a motorboat capsized in the district.

India reported 159,632 new Covid-19 cases and 327 new deaths yesterday, as the Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly in the country, nudging several state governments to impose fresh restrictions.

Former superintendent of police Babul Akter was shown arrested yesterday in the case filed by him over the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chattogram five and a half years ago.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to get vaccines without unnecessary fear to fight off the coronavirus and its new variants.

Himanshu Roy, a tea stall owner who died in police custody in Lalmonirhat, and his wife were cremated in the same funeral pyre on Saturday night.

In the dialogue with President Abdul Hamid at the Bangabhaban yesterday, Krishak Sramik Janata League opposed search committee for the formation of the next Election Commission.

Polling officials made a mess of counting ballots at a voting centre in Shariatpur’s Naria upazila during the fifth phase of the union parishad polls on Wednesday, raising questions about the credibility of the election results.

As many as 1.6 million youths lost their jobs and about 20 million faced income loss for the pandemic, found a government study -- signifying the global public health crisis’s outsize economic consequences for Bangladesh’s younger population.