Some 68 Bangladeshi expatriates were sent back home from Abu Dhabi International Airport yesterday after they allegedly failed to meet necessary conditions for their immigration clearance.

China’s vaccine maker CanSino Biologics Inc has won a patent approval from Beijing for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate Ad5-nCOV, People’s Daily reported, citing documents from the country’s intellectual property regulator.

Water of some major rivers in the country’s northern region and some other districts is rising again, posing the risk of flooding many areas.

Prianka Majumder had planned to stay in Bangladesh for 20 days when she along with her husband and daughter came to the country on March 8 to attend her cousin’s wedding in Barishal’s Gournadi.

British Prime Minister Edward Heath calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the latter’s hotel suite today. Coming out of Bangabandhu’s room at Hotel Claridges, Heath tells newsmen that he has had ‘very good talks’ with the Bangladesh prime minister.

A “lucky” mobile phone number has sold for a whopping 2.25 million yuan ($300,000) after hundreds of people vied online for the right to use the apparently auspicious string of digits.

With 2,595 more people testing positive for Covid-19 yesterday, Bangladesh has now become sixth on the list of countries with most active cases.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose first term in office ended in part for health reasons, sparked fresh speculation yesterday about his well-being with an unexpected, hours-long hospital visit.

Suspected yaba smugglers fired at members of Border Guard Bangladesh near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila on Sunday night, BGB said in a press release.

French President Emmanuel Macron urged fresh Middle East peace talks after Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise ties in a move praised by many Western governments, including Paris, but unanimously denounced by the Palestinians.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force along Shingnagar border in Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj upazila on Sunday night.

AMM Bahauddin, editor of the daily Inquilab, and one other were sued in a defamation case yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday accused former president Ziaur Rahman and his wife Khaleda Zia of resorting to the politics of killings and enacting indemnity laws to save the killers of Bangabandhu and Awami League leaders and activists.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized 3.9 lakh yaba pills from Damdamia area of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday.

A massive surge of over 63,000 new coronavirus infections since Saturday has taken India’s tally past 25.89 lakh cases, the Indian Health Ministry said yesterday, adding that more than 900 Covid-linked deaths were recorded in the period.

The health directorate yesterday reported 2,024 Covid-19 new cases and 32 deaths from the highly transmissible virus as the number of tests decreased again.

Around 105 Bangladeshi migrants, who faced exploitation in Vietnam, are finally flying home tomorrow in a chartered flight arranged by the Bangladesh government.

Health department officials have shut down at least 58 private clinics and diagnostic centres in different upazilas of Patuakhali on various charges, including operating without registration, non-renewal of registration and not having related facilities.

There is a common public perception that processes for government works are slow but they speed up when vested interests are involved. A recent enquiry by the Anti-Corruption Commission shows why it is so.

The country may see heavy rain and thunder today, while the sea will grow rough, as monsoon is active across the country, the Met office said.