The government yesterday handed two-year tenure extensions to five high-cost quick rental companies on condition that they will not be paid when they are not supplying electricity.

The icddr,b in Dhaka has been struggling to cope with the deluge of diarrhoea patients over the last week.

The government has extended the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence for another six months.

The National Consumers Rights Movement (NCRM) yesterday demanded re-introduction of the year-long ration card system as scores return empty-handed after queuing for hours for commodities at a subsidised rate.

Bangladeshi migrant rights activists and researchers have demanded that authorities investigate the unnatural deaths of migrant workers in the destination countries, including those in the Gulf.

US biotech firm Moderna yesterday said it was pursuing regulatory approval for its Covid vaccine in children aged six months to six years after the two-shot regimen was found to be safe and produced a strong immune response.

Extracts of okra and other slimy plants commonly used in cooking can help remove dangerous microplastics from wastewater, scientists said Tuesday.

Police have arrested a man on charges of vandalising idols in a Hindu temple in the capital’s Khilgaon on Monday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the film industry to focus more on the country’s Liberation War and sacrifice of the masses besides providing entertainment.

A local court yesterday sentenced Talim Prodhan, a member of banned militant group JMB, to 14 years rigorous imprisonment.

A Supreme Court committee yesterday directed the judges concerned to form committees for receiving complaints of sexual harassment at lower courts across the country.

Bangladesh has welcomed the US announcement acknowledging Rohingya genocide, noting that it might expedite efforts on accountability and repatriation fronts.

Police yesterday recovered the body a jute mills employee from a jeep bearing stickers of the Secretariat in Bonpara Bypass area of Natore’s Baraigram upazila.

The Bangladesh Bridge Authority hired a South Koran-Bangladesh joint venture (JV) firm to build a major bridge over the Payra in Patuakhali.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has placed its fleet of Boeing 737 planes under surveillance after a jet crashed in China.

Two ministers yesterday said the government has been doing its best to control the high prices of essentials, which is the result of global market instability.

In a suspected case of an intra-party feud, miscreants set on fire about a dozen houses at a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district leaving at least seven people dead, police and fire brigade officials said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed firm optimism that another dream of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would also be materialised soon by providing houses to all homeless people.

Three more bodies, including that of a toddler, were recovered yesterday, taking the death toll of Sunday’s launch accident on the Shitalakkhya to 10.

Bangladesh will go into the third and final ODI against South Africa today at Centurion looking to make history by winning their first-ever ODI series in South African soil.