The decision to scrap 10 coal-fired power plants was taken as they were either not being financed by foreign investors or the sponsoring companies were moving away, said Prof Anu Muhammad at a virtual press conference yesterday.

For the last couple of days, the number of deaths due to Covid-19 has been on the rise in the rural areas of Chattogram. Even the positivity rate remains higher compared to that of the port city.

Immense public sufferings in the capital marked the first day of restrictions enforced by the government to curb the spread of coronavirus infections.

Twelve new patients diagnosed with dengue fever were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning amid a spike in the mosquito-borne disease during monsoon.

The Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute Bill 2021 was placed in parliament yesterday to provide better healthcare services to children.

Rangamati Science and Technology University (RMSTU) and Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday. With the MoU, the two public universities will look to enhance mutual cooperation with each other.

Today is the seventh death anniversary of poet Abul Hussain, a pioneer of modernism in Bengali poetry, said a press release.

Today marks the first death anniversary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, who passed away at the capital’s Combined Military Hospital, after a month-long battle against Covid-19 last year.

Merina Yesmin -- wife of Mahmud Hassan, in-charge of The Daily Star’s National Desk -- passed away early yesterday at the age of 44.

Examining a list of 26 reported incidents of serving jail sentences by innocent persons instead of original accused and convicts, the High Court yesterday issued a rule on the government for introducing biometric data management in prisons to properly identify the prisoners.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) have arrested a sub-inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) and seized 11,560 pieces of yaba pills from his possession in Chattogram.

Failing to find transport to reach their workplace, workers of several garment factories blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway’s Radio colony and Savar Bazar bus-stand areas demonstrated yesterday morning.

The government has taken various steps to make NID services more efficient and dynamic, Law Minister Anisul Haque told parliament yesterday.

The Cabinet Division yesterday approved the final draft of “Highway Act 2021” with the provision of a maximum of two years’ imprisonment for violation of the act.

People living in city corporation areas will have access to justice quickly and will benefit if “city court” is established, LGRD Minister Tajul Islam said today.

The authorities of Rajshahi University have filed a General Diary (GD) with the city’s Matihar Police Station against teachers, officials and staffers who were recruited “illegally” recently.

BNP yesterday described the nationwide lockdown announced by the government to contain coronavirus spread as a “joke”, since it repeatedly failed to fully enforce such restrictions in recent times.

Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital, the only large medical facility in Barishal division, is in derelict condition as the number of patients continue to swell amid rising Covid-19 infections.

Dhaka Education Board has postponed the process of form fill-up for Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination 2021, considering the surge in Covid-19 cases.

A youth has been hospitalised after he was attacked with sharp weapon and sticks allegedly by his neighbours four days ago in Mymensingh.