National Tea Day was observed for the first time in the country yesterday.

Beacon Pharmaceuticals Limited has handed over 5,000 masks and Hygienex Plus hand sanitiser to the people of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj on June 3, according to a press release.

Bangladesh and the UK have agreed to exchange expertise, share technology and facilitate partnerships to tackle the impacts of climate change.

As part of its beat policing activities, Mymensingh police administration has initiated a bicycle patrol in the city.

The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed concern for not having sufficient allocation in the next budget for critical sectors, including health, to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

A group of 24 eminent citizens demanded the release of Jhumon Das Apon, who has been in jail for the last 80 days, after being accused in a Digital Security Act case filed over criticising Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque on Facebook.

I was thrilled when my cousin recently shared a photograph where my father poses with all his eight siblings. They were in their fifties and sixties when it was taken.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday said trial proceedings of cases related to familial issues involving women and children should be conducted in camera to avoid any embarrassing situation for them.

Tuli Chowdhury (not her real name) recently went to a gynaecologist, who advised her to undergo breast screening. Tuli had heard that Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) charges much lower for the test than private diagnostic centres.

The legal cell of the Bangladesh Police Women Welfare Association (Punak) will provide legal assistance to police families in matters of domestic violence, harrassment, and dowry.

Two fish traders were killed after a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a pick-up van at Titash Upazila on the Gourpur-Homna bound road early yesterday morning.

The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict that granted bail to New Bashundhara Real Estate Limited’s Managing Director Abdul Mannan Talukdar and ordered him to surrender to a lower court concerned in two weeks in connection with a money laundering case involving Tk 110 crore.

The Rajshahi University authorities have decided to hold in-person final exams of 2019 and 2020, pending due to the pandemic.

Police’s Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) claimed to have arrested a member of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Ashulia’s Shimultola Bazar area on Wednesday.

Today is the 31st death anniversary of Abdul Rashid, a freedom fighter, said a press release.

QAMA Rahim, a freedom fighter, breathed his last on May 31 at his residence in Uttara, Dhaka. He was 79, said a press release.

BNP, Jatiya Party and other political parties yesterday said the proposed budget for 2021-22 fiscal is unrealistic and not implementable while ruling Awami League hailed the budget terming it participatory and time-befitting.

Jashore Sadar Upazila Parishad chairperson and district women’s Awami League president Nurjahan Islam Nira (53) passed away yesterday morning, Anwar Hossain Bipul, vice-chair of Sadar Upazila Parishad, confirmed.

To ensure employment, standard living, and social and economic integration of members of the transgender community in Bangladesh, the government has proposed to enact special tax incentives in the proposed budget for those who will employ transgender workers.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday proposed the implementation of an e-Judiciary project in his National Budget Speech 2021-2022, to facilitate holding of case trials through videoconferencing.