A court in Gazipur yesterday sent five youths to jail in connection with rape of an actress, while a man was sued for raping his sister-in-law in Narayanganj.

Covid-19 vaccine nationalism is harmful for all, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, and said weak cooperation between nations is a major barrier to achieving worldwide vaccination at the scale needed to end the coronavirus pandemic.

Journalists have curious minds which dig out information and if they are given the scope to publish that information, they will surely do it since there is no element of offence in it, the High Court observed yesterday.

The rate of daily positive coronavirus cases dropped to 2.92 percent yesterday, the lowest in more than nine months.

People looking for a window to shun the path of militancy have been calling a hotline number and writing to an email address the Rab has dedicated for its deradicalisation programme.

Prosecutors yesterday sought capital punishment for six men accused of killing blogger and writer Avijit Roy in February 2015.

A number of renowned economists and industrialists have urged the government not to give the scope for whitening black money in the next fiscal year.

Amid the changed situation in Myanmar, the next round of virtual discussion on Rohingya repatriation, scheduled for tomorrow, looks uncertain.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has decided not to join a cluster to hold a uniform admission test; rather it would enrol students through its own admission tests like previous years.

A Russian court jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny yesterday in a ruling which the opposition politician blamed on what he called President Vladimir Putin’s hatred and fear of him.

Covid-19 treatments and improved hospital care have reduced death rates in intensive care by more than a third since the early months of the pandemic, but this progress might be stalling, according to research published yesterday.

Hong Kong’s leader defended her administration’s use of “ambush lockdowns” yesterday after a spate of overnight operations to conduct surprise mandatory coronavirus tests uncovered no new cases.

Scores of Rohingya women missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia have been trafficked into Malaysia to reunite with their husbands, several sources have told AFP.

Bangladesh has urged Malaysia to finalise the protocol amending the MoU between the government of Malaysia and the government of Bangladesh (G-to-G plus) on the employment of workers.

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 fatalities rose to 8,149 as the health authorities recorded 12 more coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours till yesterday morning.

Police arrested two government officials in Dinajpur on Monday for transferring around Tk 2.2 crore digitally from the state treasury over the last two years by forging documents, user IDs and passwords.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling coalition partner yesterday backed the Turkish leader’s surprise call to draft a new constitution, which some see as a bid to extend his rule.

The World Health Organization blasted critics of its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and challenged those claiming to know better to come forward with the smoking gun.

The ongoing cold spell that causes immense sufferings to the people may continue for next two or three days.

One hundred and one Supreme Court lawyers yesterday sent a letter to President Abdul Hamid, requesting him to constitute the Supreme Judicial Council to probe allegations of “financial corruption and gross misconduct” against the CEC and other election commissioners.