As the country logged 2,241 new Covid cases yesterday, the highest daily infections in more than four months, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said he was worried but not panicked by the upward trend of infections.

The High Court yesterday stayed for six months a Nilphamari tribunal’s order that acquitted an accused in a rape case filed by a 15-year-old victim.

City dwellers are suffering as vegetable prices at kitchen markets across the capital have doubled in the fallout from the worst flood in the country since 2004.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian early yesterday during clashes in the hotspot town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. 

Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched yesterday to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the Indian Ocean island’s worst economic crisis in decades or step down.

Nato yesterday branded Russia the most “direct threat” to allied security after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and vowed to modernise the beleaguered Ukrainian military, saying it stood four-square with Kyiv in “the heroic defence of their country”.

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission in the verdict of a public hearing has ordered the Petrobangla to return Tk 12,227 crore taken from its security and development funds.

The body of a newborn girl was found in Dinajpur’s Hakimpur upazila yesterday.

Bangladesh Navy detained 135 Indian fishermen, including eight trawlers, from the Bay of Bengal on Monday night.

A female doctor, who set herself on fire following a family feud on Friday, died at a city hospital yesterday.

A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee is going to be held today to fix the date of Eid-ul-Azha.

As Covid-19 cases are rising steeply in the country, the Cabinet Division yesterday instructed all officials concerned to enforce the “no mask, no service” policy everywhere and ensure that everyone follows health safety rules.

Around 3:00am last Wednesday, one family was seen hard at work making 400 bags of relief to be taken for distribution the next morning.

A young man’s wrists were cut off by his neighbour’s relatives in Narsingdi’s Polash upazila yesterday.

Russia vowed yesterday its assault on Ukraine would continue until Kyiv surrenders, as world leaders warned that Moscow would pay for its aggression.

Water levels rose in some low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj due to heavy rain in the country’s northeastern region and water flowing in from the upstream of India’s Meghalaya yesterday.

Bangladesh and Japan have signed a loan and grant agreement worth $1.23 billion for projects including the northern route of Mass Rapid Transit Line 5. 

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday sought apology and compensation from those who shamed Bangladesh, accusing some top officials of a conspiracy of corruption in the Padma Bridge project.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to form a commission in 30 days in order to identify those who made up stories about corruption involving the Padma Bridge project.

Police filed a case accusing 170 to 180 people on charges of forcing acting principal of Mirzapur United College to wear a garland of shoes around his neck, setting a motorcycle on fire, and barring government work in the area.