A delegation headed by Labour MP John Stonehouse and top officials of War on Want, Christian Aid and Oxfam, called on Sir Alec Douglas Home, British foreign secretary, and told him that Britain should do something so that international relief work could be started in Bangladesh.

The government started procurement of paddy directly from farmers at Tk 27 per kg from yesterday.

Considering the global situation and following the advice of public health experts, the government has made quarantine mandatory for all passengers from abroad.

Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Md Salim, walked out of jail yesterday after around six months.

American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969, died yesterday after battling cancer, his family said.

Two garment workers were raped while they were trying to get back to Dhaka from their village home in Sunamganj’s Jamalganj upazila on Monday.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed today appealed to neighbouring countries to grant immediate recognition to Bangladesh and to give unconditional arms aid and thus help a newborn country free itself from the clutches of a murderous army.

Masks work best when everyone wears them, but not at the time when someone puts it on incorrectly.

The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine yesterday criticised Brazil’s refusal to import the jab as politically motivated. Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Monday denied requests from several states to receive batches of Sputnik V, saying it did not have the data needed to verify the jab’s safety and efficacy.

Chinese Defence Minister Gen Wei Fenghe yesterday said his country was keen to extend cooperation to Bangladesh in tackling the Covid-19 outbreak.

More than 500 health workers have died in Venezuela since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a nongovernmental organization said Monday.

Vital medical supplies poured into India yesterday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000.

Many Bangladeshis, who were stranded at India’s Petropole border, were allowed to enter the country through the Benapole border in Jashore yesterday.

Bangladesh has joined the China-led initiative with five other South Asian countries in the spirit of partnership and multilateralism to have vaccine and oxygen supplies during the critical period of coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh Coast Guard members yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, who were trying to go to Malaysia illegally by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal, in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf.

When the sudden halt to oxygen import from India may put the country at risk if the number of Covid-19 patients rises more, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said there is nothing to panic about the supply of oxygen in the country.

The government project undertaken to prepare the country’s first-ever poverty registry has not been completed in more than seven years, with the data collected for it already rendered useless.

A heat wave has been sweeping the country over the last few days, causing immense hardship to the manual workers, especially the day labourers.

US road movie “Nomadland” emerged as the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday with three major prizes, including a history-making award for director Chloe Zhao, as Hollywood celebrated its most glamorous night with a unique pandemic-era gala.

In a memorandum sent to President Richard Nixon today, the US President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger provided three policy options towards the East Pakistan crisis: