The three-year-old boy whose body was recovered from a rooftop water tank in the capital’s Shyampur area on Tuesday was kidnapped by a masked man from Gazipur on Saturday.

The number of people vaccinated for Covid-19 rose to 2,673,038 as the vaccination campaign entered the 15th day yesterday.

India announced an expansion of its vaccination programme yesterday but warned that breaches of coronavirus protocols could worsen an infection surge in many states, particularly after it detected several variants.

Dhaka and Washington have agreed to work together to promote democracy, good governance and human rights while further strengthening bilateral relations and enhancing cooperation on global issues.

BNP mayoral candidate in Chattogram City Corporation polls Shahadat Hossain filed a case with the Election Tribunal yesterday, alleging that the election result was manipulated by EC officials.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in a week why it should not be directed to outline a scheme to ensure compensation for rape victims to make their constitutional right to life effective and meaningful.

Four days after Noakhali was rocked by violence that left a journalist dead, a murder case was filed yesterday.

Amid ongoing agitation by students, Dhaka University authorities yesterday decided not to hold any exams or reopen student dormitories before May 17.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked the plaintiff to take back the sedition case filed against four people, including Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist and Netra News Editor-in-Chief Tasneem Khalil and Hungary-based entrepreneur Zulkarnain Saer Khan alias Sami, over the recent Al Jazeera report titled All the Prime Minister’s Men.

The Digital Security Act 2018 needs to be reviewed and amended with more clarity, and abuse of this act to stifle journalists and others should be stopped, speakers at a programme in the capital said yesterday.

Fifty-five percent of guardians interviewed do not feel safe to send their children to schools when they will be reopened, a survey of Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh, said yesterday.

More than five Rohingyas, who were among some 90 on a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea, have died and the rest are desperate for food and water, said Fortify Rights, quoting families who talked to the refugees.

The state-owned Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited (APSCL) is filling the Meghna bank with sand to construct a new unit near Sohagpur village. The sand is being extracted from the river bed.

The US space agency Nasa on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of a gust of wind captured by the Perseverance rover.

Myanmar’s military leaders came under renewed pressure yesterday as the world’s wealthiest nations condemned the junta for responding to anti-coup demonstrators “with violence”, a rebuke coming on the heels of tightened sanctions from Washington and Brussels.

Three alleged Rohingya robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Teknaf upazila’s Shalbagan hill area yesterday afternoon.

At least 1,018 Bangladeshi migrant workers have died in Qatar between 2010 and November 2020, reveals an investigative report of The Guardian yesterday.

Nine women suspected of plotting to blow up military targets in the restive southern Philippines have been arrested, the army said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed the desire to build fighter jets in Bangladesh to protect its sovereignty.

Eighteen people have died from Covid-19 in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday and at least 399 new infections were recorded in that duration.