Livelihoods of a vast majority of daily-earning class people were hampered during the shutdown enforced for containing coronavirus infections, said a Right to Food Bangladesh survey report yesterday.

Some 36,84,728 cases were pending with courts in the country till December 31, 2019, after 11,65,935 cases were disposed of between January 1 to

Eleven branches of Ramakrishna Mission have distributed food among 8,000 families who have been affected by the pandemic in different districts between April and June.

The third edition of the Abul Mansur Ahmad essay contest is open for entries.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday directed law enforcement agencies as well as all others involved in maintaining full lockdown at Wari, to do their job strictly.

Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in the city’s Airport and Uttara areas in the last two days.

A tourist guide was found dead at Jaflong area of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila on Wednesday afternoon.

The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that stayed for six months the trial proceedings in a corruption case filed against former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique.

Around 37 lakh cases are now pending with courts across the country, including the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court.

More than 1.25 lakh people have been suffering immensely since June 26 due to the flood situation in Bogura’s Dhunat, Sonatala and Sariakandi upazilas.

Over two and a half lakh people are stranded by floodwater in around 400 villages of eight upazilas of Kurigram as there is no improvement in the overall flood situation in the district.

Police’s detective branch claims that Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim has admitted to providing fake coronavirus test reports during preliminary interrogation.

Regent Group chairman Md Shahed claimed that he is Covid-19 positive and has been unwell for the last one and a half months.

Two persons are killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Airport and Uttara area.

Regent Group chairman Md Shahed and its managing director Masud Parvez have been placed on 10-day remand each in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 test results and charging patients for the tests and treatment, violating an agreement with the government.

On average, more than two women were raped every day in the last six months in the country, said rights body Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP).

The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that issued an injunction on use of the word “commission” in the name of any private rights

Md Belayet Hossain, freedom fighter and senior deputy managing director of Bashundhara Group, passed away yesterday morning while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital Dhaka.

“I’ve come from the PMO. I am an adviser to the prime minister.”

Potter families in Mymensingh are struggling to survive as they cannot sell their products amid coronavirus outbreak.