Forty-four eminent citizens of the country yesterday demanded withdrawal of additional Value Added Tax (VAT) on internet package prices to avoid negative impact on online education during the coronavirus crisis.

Speakers at an online discussion yesterday demanded for institutional action to hold back a greedy tendency of making excessive profit by unscrupulous private hospitals and clinics, healthcare service organisations and individuals, diagnostic centres, and pharmaceutical companies.

Brig Gen Md Shahidullah, the immediate past director of the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD), died with Covid-19 at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday afternoon.

To construct a residential hall for students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust), parts of hillocks have been razed in the last couple of days.

Four day-labourers were killed and two injured when a pickup ploughed into a crowd in Bogura yesterday.

Jubo League central committee has expelled Alamgir Hossain, a joint convener of its Cumilla city unit, supposedly on charges of “being involved in anti-organisational activities”.

A doctor of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital was arrested yesterday, allegedly for raping an apprentice lawyer under threats of releasing her private photographs and videos, said police.

A section of guardians of students enrolled at English-medium schools yesterday demanded that all such schools not increase tuition and session fees for the next three academic years, taking the pandemic into account.

Workers of a garment factory in Tongi blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for an hour yesterday, demanding full salary of July and 12-day vacation for Eid-ul-Azha.

Md Mizanur Rahman, managing director of Regent Hospital’s Uttara branch, was placed on a 10-day remand yesterday, in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates to 76 labourers of Dhaka Metro Rail.

Defying the ban on student politics at Bangladesh Engineering and Technology University (Buet), Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has announced convening a five-member committee of the university unit.

A doctor of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) had been raping a female apprentice-lawyer for 17 months under threats of releasing her private photographs and videos, police said quoting the victim.

A former leader of Faridpur town Awami League unit and his brother today confessed to a magistrate of having laundered over Tk 2,000 crore abroad on different dates, an official of the court said.

The two city corporations of Dhaka have designated 356 places for the slaughtering of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha, to be held on August 1.

At the end of a 21-day lockdown of Wari to curb the spread of coronavirus, the Dhaka South City Corporation lifted restrictions on the Old Dhaka area from 12:00am on Saturday.

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday urged Dhaka city dwellers not to go to village homes, unless there is an emergency, during Eid.

Rangpur residents are suffering as rain-induced waterlogging has inundated many city streets and areas.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has asked Bangladesh missions abroad to serve people with a smile.

After passing four days under open sky near the Bangladesh embassy in Hanoi, 17 Bangladeshis, who were defrauded by Bangladeshi agents, brokers and a Vietnamese company, were provided accommodation on Thursday.

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Barishal Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) authorities found itself in a waste disposal conundrum as the city corporation has stopped collecting waste from the hospital.