At least 759 new infections were recorded and eight people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

An indigenous man was shot dead in remote Rowangchhari upazilla of Bandarban yesterday noon. 

Police recovered the hanging body of a youth from a residential hotel in Patuakhali town early yesterday.

Around 2600 workers engaged in loading and unloading goods are at a considerable risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus at Burimari Land Port in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat as they are to work along with foreign workers amidst the latest Covid-19 spike.

Rab has arrested six perpetrators of the recent gang rape of a female student of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University of Science and Technology (BSMRSTU).

Admission seekers are worried about their preparations for the coming public university entrance exams as most of the universities are yet to decide whether the exam syllabus would be shortened or not.

Those who intend to travel to India through Benapole land port will not need to present a negative Covid-19 test report if they have already taken the Covid-19 booster shot.

Vegetarians have 14 percent lower risk of developing cancer than those who regularly eat meat, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Oxford.

The nation yesterday mourned the death of 74 people, including 57 army officers, during the BDR carnage on February 25-26 in 2009.

The students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University of Science and Technology in Gopalganj protested for the second day yesterday.

Bangladesh is losing 7 billion working hours annually due to extreme heat exposure caused by global warming, a new study reveals.

Medical College students started picketing in the early morning of February 21, 1952. Students of Nabakumar Institutions joined the picketers. At around 8:00-8:30am I went to Amtala.

The World Bank approved a $300m loan for Bangladesh yesterday aiming to support the country’s urban local government institutions in facing the coronavirus pandemic and its future shocks.

A 70-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Manikganj municipal area yesterday.

A man was crushed under the wheels of a train in Madarganj village of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The newborn baby rescued from beside a roadside dustbin at Puran Bazar in Lalmonirhat town on Valentine’s Day has been identified.

Customs officials detained a cleaner of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh with 36 gold bars, weighing over 4kg, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday morning.

Terming Bangladesh a geographically contiguous neighbour of the Asean, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her country’s keen interest in strengthening institutional engagements with the important regional organisation.

A Moulvibazar court sent a man to jail yesterday on charges of raping a 20-year-old woman with disabilities in Kamalganj upazila.

Rab has arrested five men accused of killing local Awami League leader Siddiqur Rahman in Bheramara upazila of the district on Friday.