Bangladesh will receive over five lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine on May 10 if everything goes as planned.

The brother of the college student found dead in a Gulshan flat filed a murder case against Nazmul Karim Chowdhury Sharun, son of Awami League lawmaker and parliament whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury, with a Dhaka court yesterday.

Amid fears of a further surge in Covid-19 infections, the government plans to segregate the big cities with higher transmission rate from the rest of the country and extend the nationwide restrictions with stricter surveillance.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reaffirmed that the government would procure vaccines at any cost to protect the people from coronavirus.

A man died in police custody in Chapainawabganj yesterday after he was arrested in a narcotics case on Thursday night.

A farmer in Rajshahi’s Paba upazila, Motahar Hossain sees his land waterlogged most part of the year -- preventing him from cultivating paddy with water even encroaching into his home.

Sister of the college student found dead in a Gulshan flat expressed frustration that Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobahan Anvir, who is accused of instigating the woman’s suicide, has not been arrested yet.

Controversial Hefajat leader Mamunul Haque was sued for rape yesterday by a woman, who he claimed was his second wife.

Bangladesh yesterday reported its single-day Covid-19 death toll of 57, the lowest in 25 days, even though the virus surge remained at a disturbing level.

A survey by Brac Migration Programme has found that 47.23 percent of 417 returnee migrants do not have any income source now.

Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation yesterday announced programmes, including demonstrations, demanding immediate resumption of public transport services, which remain suspended due to the Covid-19 restrictions.

The historic May Day is being observed today as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic which has rendered millions of workers jobless in recent months.

Hundreds of thousands of workers in the readymade garment sector have been laid off since last year, despite factory owners receiving a Tk 8,000 crore stimulus packagefrom the government to pay their salaries during the pandemic.

Worried that the Covid situation in Bangladesh could worsen with the Indian variant entering and the upcoming Eid travel rush, the government is contemplating stricter measures.

Five family members and three domestic staff of Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir left Dhaka for Dubai by a chartered aircraft last night.

The energy regulator has re-fixed the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) of private companies.

Primary evidence suggests that there was instigation behind the death of a college student whose sister filed a case against Bashundhara Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, police said yesterday.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra started an initiative to treat coronavirus patients at their home with mobile medical teams in four areas of the capital.

The government is considering whether to locally produce Covid-19 vaccines with its own funds as the supply of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India’s Serum Institute remains uncertain.

The positivity rate of Covid-19 tests in the country has come down below 10 percent after 40 days.