Mosammat Monoara Zaman, mother of lawmaker Saifuzzaman Shikhar, has passed away at her Magura residence yesterday afternoon. She had been suffering from old age complications, family sources said. She was 75.

Superintendent of Jashore Police Muhammad Ashraf Hossain yesterday submitted a probe report to the High Court, saying that three police personnel of Kotwali Police Station had taken “unethical benefits” from the father of college student Imran Hossain for releasing him from their custody.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against a government officer, two union parishad (UP) members and three others for misappropriating about 39.3 thousand kg rice from Food for Work project.

They mostly worked in small groups -- around three to four persons in each one.

Over 11,000 vehicles, including 1,572 belonging to different government agencies, have not had their fitness certificates renewed for more than a decade in breach of rules, and authorities are going to declare those “write-offs” after tomorrow, officials said.

International relations analysts have called for a new move to strengthen South Asian integration for the sake of improving the lives of its huge population, a lot of who are poor, human rights and environment.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the health secretary and director general of the

Workers of the nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna region are preparing for an organised movement to protest the decision to hand all state-owned jute mills over to public private partnership.

Allegations of mistakes and mismanagement in Covid-19 test results have been growing at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram city, as the centre continues to work through the health crisis with limited resources.

A fire that broke out at a Bata showroom in Khilgaon-Banasree area last night was extinguished after three hours of fire-fighting, but a large number of shoes and other goods were burnt to ashes.

Gas supply is suspended in some areas of Dhaka -- including Jatrabari, Demra, Shyampur and Kadamtali -- from 2:30pm to 7:00pm today due to emergency repair work.

Forty-three people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, says during a briefing.

A virtual court in Dhaka has placed photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol on a two-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Three day labourers were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Mirzapur upazila early today.

Students and faculty members of Daffodil International University (DIU) are benefitting from online teaching and learning using the “Blended Learning Center (BLC)” platform during the pandemic, said a press release.

BNP yesterday alleged that the government has taken a move to raise the tariffs of electricity and fuel every year to “boost ruling party leaders’ deposits with Swiss banks through plundering”.

The change management adviser of Bangladesh Bank (BB) died from Covid-19 yesterday, at the age of 75.

PRAN-RFL Group, one of the largest business conglomerates of the country, has donated protective equipment to three hospitals dedicated for coronavirus treatment, Kamruzzaman Kamal, Marketing Director of PRAN-RFL Group, handed over the items by visiting the three insitutions on Thursday.

A three-wheeler driver died early yesterday, several hours after he and his friend were stabbed allegedly by a youth following an altercation over hiring his vehicle in Chattogram city’s Halishahar area.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said his ministry has been working as per directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to ensure safe, regular, orderly and responsible labour migration.