Police arrested five people, including a real-estate businessman and presidium member of the Jatiya Party, yesterday after film actor Pori Moni filed a case with Savar Police Station over their attempt to rape and murder her.

As the Covid-19 crisis continues to unfold in bordering districts, with some put under lockdown to put the brakes on the transmission, major hospitals in those districts totter due to a shortage of frontline doctors and nurses.

It has long been debated whether it is true that Dhaka University is the “Oxford of the East”.

Lawmakers Rashed Khan Menon and Rumeen Farhana speaking in parliament yesterday slammed corruption among bureaucrats and harassment of common people and journalists by them.

The government is considering alternatives to SSC and HSC exams if it is not possible to conduct those even with a brief syllabus due to the coronavirus pandemic, Education Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday.

The authorities are going to resume administering the first shot of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of this week, about a couple of months after its suspension due to a shortage of jabs.

A police official was arrested after shooting to death a woman, her seven-year-old son, and a man in broad daylight in Kushtia town yesterday.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to immediately suspend six police personnel and curtail the criminal jurisdiction of a senior judicial magistrate for acting beyond their authority while handling a rape case involving four children in Barishal.

Over the years, the government has put present and former bureaucrats at the helm of almost all state bodies, some of which should be led by professionals with specific expertise.

The government yesterday extended the closure of schools and colleges to June 30.

The health directorate yesterday reported that detection of new Covid-19 cases has increased by 27.2 percent this week.

For the past month, every lamppost, electric pole and balustrade in the neighbourhoods in Dhaka-14 constituency was strung up with technicolor posters of at least 33 politicians vying to be the oarsman of one boat -- that of the seat left empty by deceased parliamentarian Aslamul Haque.

Private hajj agencies and Biman Bangladesh Airlines will lose huge revenue for the second consecutive year as the Saudi government has decided not to allow anyone from abroad to perform hajj amid the pandemic.

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was yesterday banned for three matches and fined five lakh taka for losing his temper and taking his frustration out on the stumps during a Bangabandhu Dhaka Premier Division T20 League game in Mirpur on Friday.

The proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 has failed to address pressing issues related to healthcare, poverty, unemployment, and CMSMEs even though they required special attention to protect lives and livelihoods amid the pandemic.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday ordered making a list of errant and controversial leaders and activists and expelling them from the party, insiders said.

More than three years ago, the government had taken up a project with the aim of eliminating hazardous child labour from Bangladesh by 2020.

The virtual gala event will unveil the winners of Unsung Women Nation Builders Award 2021 at 7:30pm today on Facebook and YouTube.

Amid a steady rise in virus infections and deaths across the country, the Covid crisis in the bordering districts has apparently deepened further.

G7 leaders yesterday opened their first in-person talks in nearly two years, with an expected pledge to donate one billion Covid vaccine doses to poor countries on the agenda in a show of Western democratic cohesion.