Confidence in Covid-19 vaccines is growing, with people’s willingness to have the shots increasing as they are rolled out across the world and concerns about possible side effects are fading, a 14-country survey showed yesterday.

The National Board of Revenue yesterday honoured Kaus Mia as the best taxpayer of Mujib Borsho for his exemplary commitment to depositing the right amount of tax to the public coffers.

Yahya Khan’s speech was broadcast on Radio Pakistan on March 6, 1971. It was provocative and offensive.

A protester was shot dead in Myanmar yesterday in the latest round of bloodletting at anti-coup demonstrations, as the UN Security Council prepared to meet on the escalating crisis.

The third Dash-8 aircraft purchased from Canada arrived in Dhaka yesterday afternoon.

A railway wagon along with 22 carriages derailed and fell on the line in Milpara area of Kushtia yesterday.

At least 20 people were injured in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba yesterday as two groups of ruling Awami League activists clashed in a programme where Law Minister Anisul Huq was present.

Former US president Donald Trump will be allowed back on YouTube but only when the threat of his inciting violence abates, the head of the popular online video sharing platform said Thursday.

The number of Covid-19 vaccine recipients continued rising for the second consecutive day as another 1,21,010 people were vaccinated all over the country yesterday.

Sixty-six writers of Bangladesh have issued a statement demanding justice for writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who died in jail custody, and the abolition of the Digital Security Act (DSA).

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seems to be positive about taking Covid-19 shots, but she is yet to give consent to it, says her personal physician.

Alongside Bangabandhu Memorial in Tungipara, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Orakandi, a sacred shrine of the “Matua” community in Gopalganj, and “Satipith” in Shikarpur, Barishal, during his upcoming Bangladesh visit.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the existing problems between neighbouring countries need to be resolved through discussions.

The High Court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to submit within two and a half months the charge sheets in the 21 cases filed over BASIC Bank loan scam.

The United Nations human rights chief yesterday called on Myanmar’s security forces to halt their “vicious crackdown on peaceful protesters” and urged the military to release people unlawfully detained since the February 1 coup.

Five people, including Chattogram Central Jail’s superintendent, were sued yesterday for torturing a prisoner with electric shocks and drug injections.

General Yaqub, who had taken charge of East Pakistan from Governor Ahsan on March 1, 1971, sent his resignation by telegram on the morning of March 5, 1971.

In a statement issued on March 4, 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman asked government and non-government offices where employees had not yet been paid their salaries, to function between 2:30 pm and 4:30pm for the purposes of disbursing salaries during the next two days of hartal.

South Korean Hyundai Rotem Company has supplied 10 locomotives to Bangladesh Railway deviating from some clauses of the contract, a probe committee has found.

Managing Director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah has been appointed chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission.