At least 17 people from religious and ethnic minorities have been killed between March and September, as communal attacks continued even amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh Hindu, Bouddha, Christian Oikya Parishad said yesterday.

Pankaj Bhattacharya is one of the few veteran left-wing idealistic politicians in Bangladesh. He spent his entire life holding on to his ideologies, which he has never compromised with. This politician is the president of Oikya NAP.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the August 15 and November 3 killings proved that there was a conspiracy against the independence and the people of the country.

The High Court yesterday asked the government to show cause as to why laws that allow marital rape of women and girls aged above 13 should not be declared void and discriminatory.

The government’s preparations for tackling a possible spike in Covid-19 cases in the coming winter appear to be limited to rhetoric as efforts to control virus transmission and ensure treatment are still far from satisfactory.

The University Grants Commission considers providing 41,501 public university students with Tk 8,000 each interest-free loans so that they can buy smartphones and attend online classes amid the pandemic.

Thousands of Hefajat leaders and activists gathered near Baitul Mukarram National Mosque yesterday morning, aiming to lay siege to the French embassy in Dhaka, bringing traffic to a standstill on some of busiest streets in the city.

Journalist leaders yesterday said state actors cannot deny responsibility in the incident of the abduction of Chattogram-based journalist Golam Sarwar, who was found unconscious on Sunday night three days after he had gone missing.

The High Court yesterday sought explanation from three hospitals in the capital about the death of newborn twins after the mother and the babies were refused treatment.

It has been 45 years since, on this very day in 1975, four national leaders were assassinated at the Dhaka Central Jail.

As many as 63 migrant workers, including 58 females, returned to the country with psychological issues over the last two years, according to the Brac Migration Programme.

Biplob Chandra Baidya, a youth from Bhola, has been languishing in jail for a year even though a hacker, arrested by police, confessed to have circulated anti-religious messages using his Facebook ID.

Orion Group, on October 28, sent a rejoinder to our report “Target Forex Reserve”, published on the same day. We’re publishing the full, unedited rejoinder along with our reply.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked all concerned to highlight the facts of any incident alongside protesting the spread of rumours and false propaganda in the name of freedom of speech.

The US presidential campaign entered its final day with a last-minute scramble for votes by Donald Trump and Joe Biden, drawing to a close an extraordinary race that has put a pandemic-stricken country on edge.

Shortly before this story went to print last night, missing journalist Golam Sarwar was found unconscious beside a canal at Sitakunda’s Kumira.

On average, the government has so far spent Tk 15,000 for each regular Covid-19 patient and Tk 47,000 for each coronavirus patient who required ICU treatment, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

The government has planned to expand the Dhaka-Sylhet highway into four-lane without keeping adequate overpasses and underpasses, which may reduce the service and productivity of the road.

Unskilled drivers, reckless driving, poor roads and unfit vehicles are behind the rise in the number of road crashes, a Dhaka court said yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced three staffers of Hanif Paribahan to death in a case filed over the murder of North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel in July of 2018.