Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is committed to sustaining Bangladesh’s recognition as a developing country through the expansion of education and building skilled workforce and worthy citizens.

A vessel carrying 848 tonnes of coal capsized in the Passur river near Mongla port in Bagerhat on Saturday night.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know the names, addresses and current status of Bangladeshis who deposited laundered money to overseas banks and enquired what steps had been taken against them.

Bangladesh is under “no obligation” to shelter 81 Rohingya refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen.

Myanmar’s junta fired its United Nations ambassador yesterday for breaking ranks to denounce the military’s ouster of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as police stepped up a crackdown on protesters across the country.

A total of 133,833 people were vaccinated on the 17th day of countrywide inoculation campaign against Covid-19 yesterday.

Due to law enforcers’ obstructions and a 24-hour transport strike, the BNP rally in Khulna was held on a limited scale yesterday.

Police in Jashore are looking for a man accused of raping a school girl on Friday.

The WHO has urged the UN Security Council to back up its call for increased vaccine supply to poorer nations with concrete action to ensure production gets ramped up.

Twenty nine municipalities in 20 districts go to polls today amid worries over violence and confusion among many voters about Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

Police have pressed charges against four former officers and eight teens for the murder of three children at Jashore Child Development Centre on August 13 last year.

India yesterday announced a ceiling price Rs 250 per dose of Covid-19 vaccine to be administered by private hospitals as the country aims to exponentially expand the ambit of its inoculation drive from tomorrow.

The bottleneck in distribution of smart driving licences is likely to ease as a new vendor of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority starts the distribution process today.

Bangladeshi migrant workers who returned home from Libya on Wednesday went through severe hardship as their livelihoods were hampered due to economic uncertainty and deterioration of law and order.

The road that connects Bangladesh’s Sylhet to Indian’s Shillong through Jaintapur-Tamabil was constructed in 1932.

A Boeing 777 airliner yesterday made an emergency landing in Moscow with engine problems, the operating airline said, days after another model rained down engine debris over the United States.

Bangladesh’s novel coronavirus caseload climbed to 545,424 yesterday after the health authorities detected 470 new cases in 24 hours till the morning.

Zahirul Islam, managing director of Lama Rubber Industries Limited, in a rejoinder claimed that the news report on the grabbing of indigenous Mro people’s jhum land carried by this paper on February 13 was “completely one sided, fake and very harmful” for its shareholders.

The High Court has ordered the authorities to maintain status quo on land grabbing, earth filling and operating brick kilns on the land of the Bhadra and Hori rivers in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila for three months.

A police constable landed in jail yesterday on charge of raping a teenaged girl in Feni’s Fulgaji.