The government yesterday imposed a travel ban on President of Jubo League’s Dhaka South unit Ismail Hossain Samrat, meaning he can no longer leave the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the prestigious Vaccine Hero award in recognition of Bangladesh’s outstanding success in vaccination to immunise children.

Bangladesh’s economy is burdened with an estimated $1.21 billion a year for supporting the Rohingyas and the cost may go up with their population growth, inflation, and decline in foreign funding, experts said yesterday.

Amid the clampdown on gambling, Rab members got a tip that five vaults were sold from English Road area recently and the buyer is a top casino businessman. The tip led the elite force to three houses at Banianagar and Narinda in Old Dhaka.

It was a damp end to the T20I tri-series as Bangladesh and Afghanistan were declared joint champions after the final was washed out at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

The tweets, which claimed the Islamic State carried out attacks on police in the capital in the last five months, were actually made from Bangladesh, the top counter-terror official said yesterday.

The National Board of Revenue yesterday asked banks to provide account details of two former Public Works Division top engineers and their wives, said officials.

Britain’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in suspending parliament in the run-up to Brexit, in a momentous defeat that sparked calls for him to resign.

The education ministry yesterday sent a letter to the University Grants Commission (UGC), asking to form a committee to investigate the situation at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj.

If you go by the documents of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj, over 68 percent work to build a concrete Shaheed Minar on the campus has been completed.

Some of the Nepali citizens who had been working at a casino in Mohammedan Sporting Club came to Bangladesh in the guise of readymade garments traders, documents recovered from the club showed.

The ongoing T20I tri-series will come to an end after hosts Bangladesh take on Afghanistan in their third meeting of the tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has ordered all banks to freeze accounts of SM Golam Kibria Shamim, his wife and mother, and of now-expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said collaboration among countries at regional and global levels is fundamental to accelerate progress in the Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Cash-strapped clubs allowed “casinos” on their premises due to “political pressure” and the lure of money, according to officials of two clubs that were raided by police on Sunday.

Members of a “Neo-JMB” cell planted improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at two spots and attacked policemen at three others in the capital in the last six months, counterterrorism officials said.

The Public Works Department (PWD) may cancel the construction work contracts of SM Golam Kibria Shamim, who was arrested on Friday on several charges, as it fears obstacles in the execution of the contractual projects due to his being in custody.

A former union parishad chairman in Brahmanbaria died on November 2 last year, but documents placed before a district court show he “gave statement” to a police officer as a witness in a murder case nearly three months after his death.

Dhaka South Jubo League President Ismail Hossain Samrat has allegedly dug himself in at his office in Kakrail to avert arrest and is desperately looking for ways to leave the country, his party men told The Daily Star yesterday.

It apparently took Motijheel police years to even be aware of four illegal casinos which were operating in the very same block as the area’s police station.