Law enforcers arrested six people, including a madrasa teacher, in five districts in the last two days on charges of rape and sodomy.

The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division is yet to settle whether executive magistrates can operate mobile courts legally, although the issue has been pending with it for over three years.

A vaccine against Covid-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday, without elaborating.

With railways projects under Indian Line of Credit and grants already facing delays, the project directors have pointed out some issues in implementing the work, which was taken up to boost connectivity among neighbouring countries.

Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize yesterday for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury said.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over a high-level conference relating to the distribution of cotton yarns in the country.

The UN yesterday called on Iran to immediately release human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and other political prisoners who have been excluded from a push to empty jails amid the pandemic.

The World Health Organization yesterday warned European countries about “pandemic fatigue” which it says threatens the continent’s ability to tackle the coronavirus.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Protesting torture and rape of a Noakhali woman, students and right activists across the country took to the streets for the second consecutive day yesterday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday expressed “full solidarity” with Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) during a meeting in Istanbul, his office said.

A couple was found dead at their house in Gobindapur village of Chuadanga’s Damurhuda on Sunday evening.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court orders that stayed trial proceedings of five separate cases filed against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus over sacking five employees of Grameen Communications.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday said he will self quarantine for 14 days after a minister who attended a high-level government meeting to discuss coronavirus developments on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19.

RT-PCR labs across the country conducted 20,01,431 coronavirus tests until yesterday morning and 3,70,132 of them (18.49 percent) produced positive results.

Donald Trump’s doctors were set to decide yesterday whether he is recovered enough to leave hospital and continue Covid-19 treatment at the White House, as the president signalled his determination to return to the election campaign with an early morning tweetstorm.

Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami, arrived in Dhaka through Tripura yesterday, three days after the former Indian envoy Riva Ganguly Das left for Delhi.

At least eight people have been arrested since Sunday in connection with rape incidents in five districts, while two others were sued yesterday over the rape of a girl.

The lone Bangladeshi coronavirus vaccine developer Globe Biotech Ltd said their coronavirus vaccine --named BANCOVID-- has shown high efficacy in pre-clinical trial on mice.

Ekushey Padak winning painter Monsur ul Karim passed away around 11:30am yesterday after a cardiac arrest in the capital’s United Hospital.