The United States and Britain rushed ventilators and vaccine materials to virus-stricken India yesterday while Italy lifted many Covid-19 restrictions in a bid to kickstart a near normal summer.

Russian prosecutors yesterday ordered jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and its regional network to suspend all their activities, its director said.

Officers tracked down the 10 Covid-19 patients, who fled from Jashore General Hospital from April 18-24 and sent them back to the facility last night.

The daily Covid cases may double after the third week of next month if the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed or withdrawn, a team of researchers has forecasted, based on epidemiological projection modelling.

People can now purchase essential products of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) at less than market prices online.

Bangladesh Railway has started using the 10 locomotives that a South Korean company supplied breaching contract. The move comes even when a BR body is evaluating if those engines should be used.

Rab arrested two men accused in a case filed over the devastating fire at an unauthorised chemical warehouse that killed five people in old Dhaka’s Armanitola on Friday.

Kuwait’s Appeal Court yesterday extended the imprisonment of former Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul and two Kuwaitis to seven years, from four, in a bribery case.

In the first three months of this year, 38 cases were filed under the Digital Security Act against individuals exercising their right to freedom of expression.

A group of criminals hurled bombs at the house of Tahera Begum, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s younger sister, in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila early yesterday.

Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on a brief visit tomorrow, officials confirmed.

All 53 crew aboard an Indonesian submarine that disappeared last week were killed, the military said yesterday as it confirmed the vessel had been found in pieces on the seafloor.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that granted bail to Erfan Salim, son of ruling Awami League Lawmaker Haji Md Salim, in a case filed over attacking a navy officer in October last year.

Muslim voters are set to be a key factor as incumbent government of Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lock horns in the seventh phase of West Bengal assembly polls today.

Oman’s decision to suspend air communication with Bangladesh is likely to jeopardise the return of about 20,000 to 25,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers to the Gulf country, according to Oikya Parishad.

The 28’year’old vice consul of Pakistan in the US renounced his ties with the Pakistani government today, saying he would “not serve a government killing our own people”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all citizens to be vaccinated and exercise caution, saying the “storm” of infections had shaken India, as the country set a new global record of the most number of Covid-19 infections in a day.

National Awami Party President Moulana Bhashani renewed his appeal to several world leaders to help the cause of Bangladesh. In a telegram,

India’s daily coronavirus death toll set a new record yesterday as the government battled to get oxygen to hospitals overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of new daily cases.

Southeast Asian leaders yesterday said they had agreed on a plan with Myanmar’s junta chief to end the crisis in the violence-hit nation, but he did not explicitly respond to demands to halt the killing of civilian protesters.