Sentencing rapists to death, as Bangladesh did yesterday, is not an appropriate punishment even for such a heinous crime, the UN rights chief said.

House help Salma Khatun and her rickshaw-puller husband Forkan Ali saved their hard-earned money for the future of their two daughters.

While people of middle- and low-income groups are still struggling to get over the loss of income caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, soaring price of daily essentials is compounding their problems.

After the elections in Myanmar next month, the US will engage with the country anew over Rohingya repatriation and human rights violations in Rakhine, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said yesterday.

Air communications between Bangladesh and India will resume from October 28 after being suspended for more than seven months due to Covid-19.

The University Grants Commission is set to propose that this year’s HSC exam results not be given any weight in the university admission test process as the government is awarding candidates grades without holding the public exams.

The Election Commission is going to file a case against independent lawmaker Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, popularly known as Nixon Chowdhury, for violating the electoral code of conduct.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) has asked the Chinese contractor of Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) to change the project’s chief, claiming that his work pattern was causing problems in the project implementation.

Bangladesh’s refusal to co-fund the trials of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine has narrowed down its options for getting vaccines when they will be ready, experts said.

The home ministry yesterday issued a statement forbidding people both at home and abroad from spreading “false, fabricated, confusing, and inciting statements” on social media about government, military, police officials and members of different other law enforcement agencies.

The epidemiological study, which found 45 percent of the respondents in the capital to be carrying Covid-19 antibody, indicates that residents in some parts of the city may have developed herd immunity, say experts.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, known as Nixon Chowdhury, lawmaker from Faridpur-4, had violated the electoral code of conduct during the local polls and actions will be taken in this regard as per the election law.

Renowned writer Rashid Haider passed away at his residence in the capital’s Fuller Road at 8:30am yesterday.

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Terming rapists “beasts”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has to include the death sentence in the relevant law to save girls from these beasts.

The High Court yesterday directed the electricity supply authorities to cancel inflated bills prepared between February and June this year, and prepare customised bills based on actual meter-reading for each consumer.

Around 45 percent of the people, covered by a survey in the capital, were found to be carrying Covid-19 antibody, according to a study by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.

The Cabinet Division has sought actions over violations of the electoral code of conduct for local body polls by the Faridpur-4 lawmaker and a newly elected upazila chairman.

Much-talked-about expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon have been sentenced to 27 years’ rigorous imprisonment in an arms case.

Amid countrywide protests denouncing violence against women, the cabinet yesterday approved the draft of Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020, incorporating the provision of capital punishment for rape.