Authorities at Enam Medical College and Hospital in Savar allegedly collected outstanding bill of Tk 3.20 lakh by holding the body of a deceased for over 24 hours.

Although tenure of the vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) is over, he is reportedly continuing to do official work of the post. Hence, a section of the university’s teachers has served a legal notice to stop his activities as VC.

The US has delivered emergency medical supplies, including 100 US-manufactured ventilators and gas analysers worth $2 million, to Bangladesh.

Speakers at an event yesterday called for ensuring safe and healthy foods for the consumers.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said authorities will fine owners of government housing colonies four times the usual amount, if they find mosquito larvae in any structure.

Eminent citizens yesterday condemned what they said was some quarters becoming active in profiteering from Covid-19 vaccine procurement.

Ride-sharing service Uber has included CNG auto-rickshaws as part of its array of vehicles available for ridesharing in Dhaka city.

Three people were killed in two separate road accidents in yesterday, report our correspondents.

Increasing allocations for health care in the national budget will not suffice; there is a need to restructure the sector, speakers at a post-budget discussion said yesterday.

People of Khulna division are at great risk of being infected with the Indian variant of coronavirus, as six of its districts have borders running for a total of 284 km with India, which is struggling to control the Covid-19 surge and the new variant -- B1617.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned of Chattogram jail to immediately release Minu Akhter, who has been serving jail sentence instead of convicted Kulsuma Akhter in a murder case.

Nazma Begum Swapna has spent half of her life living in Mohakhali’s Sattola slum.

A virtual court in Dhaka yesterday placed Mufti Sharafat Hossain, a joint general secretary of then Hefajat’s central committee, on a two-day remand in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the violence occurred centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 26.

Article 19, a UK-based human rights organisation, has appreciated the special tax exemptions for transgender citizens in the proposed budget for 2021-22 fiscal.

This World Environment Day, washing powder brand Surf Excel has come forward to inspire children to do something positive for the environment, which started with initiatives like planting trees, said a press release.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to two people in a case filed over the devastating fire that killed six people in old Dhaka’s Armanitola in April this year.

Rab claimed to have arrested a man who allegedly embezzled Titas gas bills worth Tk 10 crore, instead of depositing the money to national treasury after collecting it from customers.

TIM Nurul Kabir has been elected district governor of Rotary International Bangladesh District 3281 for Rotary Year 2023-2024 recently, said a press release.

A Bill titled “The Bangladesh National Archive Bill, 2021” was placed in Parliament yesterday, keeping provisions that no record can be destroyed.

A total of Tk 6,434 crore has been collected as toll so far from Bangabandhu Bridge since its inauguration in 1998, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the parliament yesterday.