Bangladesh has made great strides in power generation in the last decade as about 95 percent of its population now have the access to electricity, thanks to the government’s attention to renewable energy sources along with the conventional sources, says a global report.

In an unprecedented incident, Bangladesh Copyright Office granted the copyright of 260 “Masud Rana” books to its ghostwriter Sheikh Abdul Hakim on Sunday.

The government yesterday extended all educational institutions closure until August 6 as a preventive measure against the further spread of the novel coronavirus.

Here is some good news for healthcare professionals on the frontline against Covid-19.

It is reported that India-Bangladesh Joint River Commission will be formed in July, 1972. BM Abbas, flood control adviser of the Bangladesh prime minister, and Dr KL Rao, water and power minister of India, will jointly hold the chairmanship of the commission.

A US fighter jet on a training mission from a British Royal Air Force base in eastern England crashed in the North Sea yesterday.

The visiting Chinese medical experts have said the use of Ritonavir, Resochin, Ribavirin, and Arbidol can be effective to some extent.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that US President Donald Trump still has a good chance of being re-elected thanks to his strong support base, despite his declining support in recent months.

Around one and a half months into the detention of photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, his lawyer could not apply for bail yesterday as the three police stations in Dhaka -- where cases against him were filed -- were yet to “show him arrested”.

Group Captain (retd) Saiful Azam, one of the greatest Bangladeshi fighter pilots of all time, breathed his last at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka around 1:00pm yesterday.

State minister for religious affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah was laid to rest at his family graveyard in Gopalganj yesterday.

China reported its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases in months yesterday with parts of Beijing still under lockdown, offering a second wave warning to the rest of the world as the pandemic rages in South America.

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his Bandra residence in Mumbai. He was 34.

In a glimpse into the future of archaeology, researchers have used ground-penetrating radar to map an entire ancient Roman city, detecting remarkable details of buildings still deep underground including a temple and a unique public monument.

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday submitted a probe report to the High Court saying that there was no approval for the coronavirus isolation unit at United Hospital, where five people were killed in a fire on May 27.

A lecturer of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur was sent to jail for what officials said was her derogatory comment on Facebook about late health minister Mohammed Nasim.

Eighteen-year-old Afia, who gave birth to a baby boy through a C-section just 15 months ago, learned she was pregnant again this April.

Home Minister Abdul Mannan today declares that trial of war criminals will begin in September, 1972. The government has a detailed action plan for executing the trial process,

Veteran Awami League leader Mohammed Nasim was laid to eternal rest at Banani graveyard in the city yesterday. The freedom fighter was given a guard of honour before the burial.

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to Sushanta Dasgupta, editor and publisher of local newspaper Dainik Amar Habiganj, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.