The High Court yesterday directed the lower court concerned to provide JKG Healthcare Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury’s lawyers with the relevant documents relating to fake Covid-19 certificates allegedly issued by her.

Dr Ruhul Abid, a Bangladeshi-American professor at Brown University Alpert Medical School in USA, and his nonprofit organisation Health and Education for All (HAEFA) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, by University of Massachusetts Boston.

After six months of staying indoors due to the coronavirus fallout, 56-year-old Aleya Akter is back with her weighing machine on the pavement right across a Badda supermarket.

Another worker who sustained severe burns while melting iron at a steel mill factory in Gazipur’s Tongi area early Friday, died at a hospital yesterday morning. The deceased is Ripon Chandra Mahanta (30).

Today is the sixth death anniversary of Mia Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, father of PM’s Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Jahid Tusher.

Sahara Begum, mother of The Daily Star’s Jamalpur correspondent ABM Aminul Islam Liton, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. She was 75.

From now on, no prior permission will be required for flying drones for entertainment purposes in non-sensitive zones up to 500 feet, and for state or military purposes -- as the cabinet yesterday approved “The Drone Registration and Flying Guideline, 2020”.

A 60-year-old fighter aircraft F-6 has been unveiled for exhibition at the National Museum of Science and Technology in the capital.

Police have arrested four people on charge of gang raping a teenage girl in Jashore and a woman in Rangpur in separate incidents.

Almost half of the urban population in Cox’s Bazar Sadar are struggling to get food during the pandemic due to significant downturns in livelihoods, according to World Food Programme’s (WFP) assessment.

For a number of years, rice cultivation in haor areas, which account for one-fifth of the total rice production in Bangladesh, has been bearing the brunt of climate change.

Three people including editor of an online news portal were sent to jail in a case filed under Digital Security Act on Sunday in Barishal.

A Dhaka court today sentenced five members of Rapid Action Battalion to 10-years rigorous imprisonment in a case filed against them for mugging Tk 18 lakh from a businessman.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against a businessman on charge of filing a “false case” against six police personnel including the then officer-in-charge of Patenga Police Station in Chattogram last year.

On August 12, 2020, the Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh declared that he will remove some 30,000 dogs from Dhaka city. There have been massive protests in response to his statement from both local and international communities.

The High Court today observed that the managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is voluntarily not implementing a 2011 directive asking it to seal off drains and sewerage lines linked to Buriganga River.

A court in Chattogram today ordered to show former Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das -- an accused in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan killing case -- arrested in a graft case.

Samar Krishna Chowdhury, assistant to a lawyer in Chattogram city, has filed a case accusing eight policemen -- including former Boalkhali Police Station officer-in-charge Himangshu Das Rana -- and three others on charge of implicating him in two “false” cases and threatening to kill him in “shootout” in 2018.

Three people including the editor of an online news portal were sent to jail in a case filed under Digital Security Act yesterday.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) today welcomed the government’s move to abandon coal in power generation, suggesting the adoption of renewable energy rather than liquefied natural gas (LNG)-based power plants.