Four years of illegal sand lifting and forest razing have turned what was once a dense forest in Chakaria, Cox’s Bazar, into what now appears to be a lake.

Sirajul Haque Khan cannot recall the last time someone came to check the gas connection to his building.

Late last night, there was widespread outrage on social media as the graphic video of a woman in Noakhali being gang-raped was uploaded and shared yesterday.

Tensions continue to brew between pro- and anti-government leaders from Hefajat-e-Islam and Qwami madrasas over securing the top posts of the Chattogram-based Islamist group, Qwami Madrasa Education Board (Befaq), and Al-Haiyatul Ulia Lil-Jamiatil Qwamia Bangladesh, which is the highest level of Qwami madrasa education in the country.

Three more people accused in a case filed over the gangrape of a woman at Sylhet’s Murari Chand College gave their confessional statements to a district court yesterday.

White House officials sought to project an air of business as usual despite President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and hospitalisation, but aides privately expressed concern about the presidential election and showed signs of rising worry about the coronavirus.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed disappointment after seeing several names of “wrongdoers and infiltrators” were proposed for inclusion in the district, city and upazila committees of the party.

With suspended officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das now behind bars over the killing of retired army major Sinha, stories are unearthed about the unwritten law of the upazila town: you pay, you live.

As a part of intensifying and strengthening narcotics control across the country, the government has taken steps to form an independent institution to carry out dope tests in a structural manner.

The government has undertaken a programme worth $550 million with an aim to procure and distribute coronavirus vaccines.

Thirty-three people were reported dead from Covid-19 yesterday, as the death toll from the virus reached 5,305.

Biman has started operating flights to Saudi Arabia while Saudia has increased the number of its weekly flights from Dhaka, offering some relief to around 55,000 stranded Bangladeshi migrants seeking to go back to work in the Gulf country.

The High Court could not issue any directive, guideline or observation on extrajudicial killings in law enforcers’ custody as no final hearings were held on two separate petitions and three rules over the last 14 years.

The icddr,b has been selected as one of the six laboratories across the globe to work together to reliably assess and compare immunological responses generated by Covid-19 vaccine candidates, read a press release yesterday.

The much-talked-about mass trial of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine in Bangladesh has become uncertain after drugmaker Sinovac Biotech Ltd asked the government to co-finance the initiative.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said he had tested positive for Covid-19 and would quarantine inside the White House during his recovery, cancelling upcoming appearances on the campaign trail ahead of a bitterly fought election.

The heartland of a reserve forest in Moulvibazar is in the process of being leased out to a private company for tea plantation.

The Prime Minister’s Office has formed a committee to review negotiated contract costs of three railways projects and whether the projects should go ahead as they have been planned.

In a bid to reduce further spread of Covid-19, the government has extended the closure of all educational institutions till October 31.

Terming China one of the most valued partners of Bangladesh for its socio-economic development, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has appreciated the East Asian country’s continued aid and support to Bangladesh during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.