Hundreds of thousands of people were under lockdown in a small Chinese city yesterday after just one case of Covid-19 was detected, as Beijing’s strict no-tolerance virus strategy showed no sign of abating.

An alleged operative of United Peoples’ Democratic Front (UPDF) was shot dead in a remote hilly area of Khagrachhari yesterday morning.

Ukraine yesterday said it had launched artillery barrages that destroyed a Russian arms depot and carried out a “special operation” to free military captives in the Moscow-controlled Kherson region, a territory it eyes to retake in a counter-offensive.

A Jubo Dal leader was hacked to death allegedly by his business opponents in Jashore town yesterday.

Henolux Group Managing Director Nurul Amin and Director Fatema Amin were sent to jail on July 9 on charges of instigating the suicide of a businessman.

Health officials yesterday reported nine deaths from Covid and 656 new cases of the disease.

A local Chhatra League leader was tied to a tree and tortured by a group of men over his relationship with a woman in Hatia Sunday evening.

Pranay Kumar Verma, currently the Indian envoy to Vietnam, will be the next Indian high commissioner in Dhaka, a diplomatic source has confirmed The Daily Star.

Three rape accused in Khagrachhari have still not been arrested, even though a case was filed in this regard around 11 days ago.

Although flood situation continues to improve in most places, another death was reported in Habiganj in 24 hours till yesterday morning, taking the total flood-related fatalities to 113.

Tensions have been brewing between members of the Garo communityand foresters over pieces of land in the Amtali forest of Tangail’s Madhupur upazila.

Western officials yesterday tried to coax Russia into allowing Ukraine to ship its grain out to the world as the four-month-old war threatened to bring hunger to countries far away from the battlefields.

Rab arrested three more persons for their alleged involvement in Rajshahi’s Sunny murder.

Seven people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

Members of Rab-7 arrested four men, including a police constable, with 5,280 pieces of yaba pills in Chattogram.

Bangladesh is observing a one-day state mourning today for former Japanese prime minister and the country’s true friend Shinzo Abe.

For people in the northeast, who are struggling through the worst flood in decades, the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha is barely bring them any joy.

A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals in the party in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila yesterday.

Russian forces yesterday consolidated gains in eastern Ukraine and probed the defences of potential new targets, as Ukrainian forces raised their national flag on a recaptured Black Sea island in a symbol of defiance against Moscow.

Locals yesterday found the body of the editor of an online news portal on the bank of the Gorai river in Jaduboyra area of Kumarkhali, Kushtia.