Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said the country’s law enforcement agencies are not involved in enforced disappearances.

Bangladesh’s efforts to send workers to five countries have suffered a blow as those nations adopted restrictive measures before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Poisoned chalice -- is what sums up best Bangladesh’s aviation industry.

Gazipur has the most polluted air out of 64 districts in Bangladesh and Madaripur the least, found a recent study.

The government has extended the coronavirus restrictions to February 21 as over 10,000 cases were detected every day for the last 10 days.

An army member and three criminals were killed during an exchange of fire in Bandarban’s Ruma upazila on Wednesday night, an ISPR press release said yesterday.

Two years after the outbreak of Covid-19, Europe could soon enter a “long period of tranquility” due to high vaccination rates, the milder Omicron variant and the end of winter, the WHO said yesterday.

After the deaths of 11 zebras and a tiger last month, an African lioness died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur’s Sreepur yesterday.

Schools and colleges are set to be closed for two more weeks after February 6 due to the high Covid infection rate in the country.

Kidney patients suffered badly as dialysis services remained halted for seven hours at two public hospitals in the capital and Chattogram yesterday.

On February 22, 2015, three adolescent boys were shot dead in the capital’s Mirpur area during a violent political movement, on suspicion that they were arsonists linked to the opposition party.

Health officials have urged people to follow health safety rules strictly as the World Health Organization said the new sub-variant of Omicron, already detected in 57 countries, may be even more contagious.

Despite a gradual decline in the prices of RT-PCR testing kits in the market, the government has not lowered the cost of the Covid tests at private hospitals and labs since May 2021.

UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews has made an urgent call to the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on the Myanmar military and significantly increase financial pressure.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned home last night after undergoing treatment at the capital’s Evercare Hospital for 80 days.

People can brace themselves for yet another round of living expense hike as the government is mulling over raising the prices of electricity, gas and fertiliser by March to bring its subsidy burden down to a tolerable limit.

The verdict in the Major (retd) Sinha murder case was not just a victory for his family, but for all the families who have lost their loved ones to “crossfires” in the hands of Teknaf police.

A Rajshahi University student was crushed to death and another injured under the wheels of a construction truck on the campus last night.

July 31, 2020 Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan shot dead by police at a checkpost on Marine Drive road, Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

The foreign ministry is considering setting up a human rights cell under the supervision of the foreign ministry director general (UN) to better analyse the country’s human rights situation and rightly present it before the international community.