The increasing jet fuel price will deliver a severe blow to the local airline industry which might even lose its competitiveness in the global market.

A Dhaka tribunal will decide on March 24 whether to accept the charges pressed against photographer Shafiqul Islam Kajol who has been accused of circulating indecent, defamatory, objectionable and false information about several ministers, MPs and Jubo Mohila League leaders on Facebook.

Dr Farhad Ali Khan, a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical physician and director of epidemiology at AstraZeneca, Sweden, has said it will take at least two more years to say when the novel coronavirus is likely to be totally eradicated from the planet.

A bottleneck on the rail route between Dhaka and the country’s north-western and southern regions is unlikely to go away anytime soon as one of the two projects aimed at improving the track capacity are stuck in limbo due to delayed loan negotiations and a cost-cutting directive.

The High Court has blamed the Anti-Corruption Commission for the failure to arrest PK Halder before he managed to flee the country.

With the number of new cases rising for a week, health officials and experts fear that the Covid-19 outbreak will spread again if people do not maintain social distancing and wear masks.

Bangladesh saw destruction or degradation of 66 square kilometres of tropical rainforest, roughly the size of Narayanganj city, over the last 17 years, according to a report by the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN).

It was his birthday. That’s why his parents came to see him at the residential madrasa on Tuesday afternoon. As they were leaving, the eight-year-old Yasin tried to follow them.

Two hundred and forty eight people have been sued over Tuesday’s violence in Noakhali’s Companiganj that left a man killed and 30 others injured.

Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore yesterday filed a complaint with a Dhaka court over being tortured in custody.

The government has drawn up a 10-day programme, to be hosted at the capital’s National Parade Square, to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of the country’s independence.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has pressed charges against five persons, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police, yesterday in a rape case filed at end of October last year.

The High Court yesterday upheld a lower court’s verdict that convicted and sentenced Haji Md Salim to 10 years in prison in a corruption case filed by the ACC during the military-backed caretaker government in 2007.

The UK variant of coronavirus, also known as N501Y.V1, has been found in Bangladesh, health officials told The Daily Star last night.

Seamless transport connectivity between Bangladesh and India has the potential to increase Bangladesh’s national income by as much as 17 percent and India’s by 8 percent, reducing the cost of doing business significantly.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said political boundaries should not become physical barriers to trade in this region.

Within three weeks of the killing of journalist Muzakkir during the factional clash of ruling Awami League in Basurhat of Companiganj in Noakhali, an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League was killed yesterday during another clash between the same groups.

The High Court yesterday directed Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to snap within next six months water supply connections to those buildings and structures which release sewage wastes directly into the Buriganga river.

In Bangladesh, when we think, talk and seek justice, we think of the courts. And that is how it should be. Among the courts, the higher we go -- meaning the High Court, the Appellate Division -- the more important they become as symbols of justice.

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