A tourist guide was found dead at Jaflong area of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila on Wednesday afternoon.

Two more police personnel, who earlier tested Covid-19 positive, died at Central Police Hospital yesterday.

Parents of students studying at English-medium school yesterday formed a human chain demanding 50 percent tuition waiver from all the schools, as the authorities are only conducting online classes.

Some 1,776 people have died after showing Covid-19 symptoms from March 22 to July 11 in the country, said a report of Dhaka University’s Centre for Genocide Studies.

Ganasamhati Andolon yesterday demanded removal of health minister Zahid Maleque and director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad due to “failure to tackle corruption in health sector.”

Trying to embrace the “new normal” during the pandemic, the entertainment industry faces a peculiar challenge. Amidst the drawbacks, artistes in the entertainment industry are trying to innovate and come up with solutions to overcome challenges, speakers said at Youth Skills Summit 2020.

The government will introduce e-ticketing system at the city’s Sadarghat Launch Terminal, to avoid harassment of waterways passengers and recurrence of accidents.

The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that stayed for six months the trial proceedings in a corruption case filed against former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique.

Around 37 lakh cases are now pending with courts across the country, including the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court.

More than 1.25 lakh people have been suffering immensely since June 26 due to the flood situation in Bogura’s Dhunat, Sonatala and Sariakandi upazilas.

Over two and a half lakh people are stranded by floodwater in around 400 villages of eight upazilas of Kurigram as there is no improvement in the overall flood situation in the district.

Police’s detective branch claims that Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim has admitted to providing fake coronavirus test reports during preliminary interrogation.

Regent Group chairman Md Shahed claimed that he is Covid-19 positive and has been unwell for the last one and a half months.

Two persons are killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Airport and Uttara area.

Regent Group chairman Md Shahed and its managing director Masud Parvez have been placed on 10-day remand each in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 test results and charging patients for the tests and treatment, violating an agreement with the government.

Hundreds of music lovers bade farewell to playback singer Andrew Kishore, as he was laid to eternal rest at Rajshahi City Church’s cemetery yesterday.

Work to build the country’s first-ever heliport in the city’s Ashkona has already started with an aim to oversee the operations of helicopters, Mohibul Haque, senior secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, said yesterday.

The government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) at a virtual meeting yesterday agreed on the specifics and time-bound actions to further accelerate implementation of ADB-assisted projects.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed JKG Health Care Chief Executive Officer Ariful Chowdhury and one of his associates Sayeed Chowdhury on four-day remand each in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

On average, more than two women were raped every day in the last six months in the country, said rights body Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP).