Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday found Aedes larvae in 91 houses and establishments during the first day of the 10-day “combing operation” to destroy breeding grounds of mosquitoes.

In a move to ensure rational use of natural gas, state-owned Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited has embarked on a plan to bring over 28 lakh consumers under prepaid metre system in phases.

At least 153 people were killed and 84 injured in 106 waterway accidents in last six months, two non-government organisations say.

Veteran journalist Faruk Quazi is no more. He passed away in his sleep at 8am yesterday at his Elephant Road residence. He was 71.Quazi, a former president of the Law Reporters Forum, had worked at different media offices including BSS, UNB and The Daily Observer.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has urged the government to introduce free internet packages for university students to enable them to attend online education.

At a time when Covid-19 cases in the country are rising and health experts insist on strongly maintaining health guidelines, a section of transport workers are using just water to sanitise passengers in Chattogram.

Bangladesh should go for robust diplomacy aimed at ensuring people’s health rights and reviving the economy that are now being largely affected by the pandemic, said international relations experts.

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been countless incidents across the country of medical services becoming scarce, from overwhelmed hospitals to shut-down private practices. And yet, there were hundreds of doctors and staff who remained resolute to their oath of serving patients.

In 1970 my parents had a big problem. That problem was me.

Bastuhara City Bypass Link Road in Khulna has remained uncared for for nearly a dozen of years as no authorities are willing to take its responsibility, resulting in extreme public sufferings.

Detective Branch of Police claims to have identified at least six organised syndicates that are swindling money from people by pretending to be plasma donors or cured Covid-19 patients.

Ansar members at Mugda General Hospital have allegedly assaulted a photojournalist of a Bangla daily newspaper when he was taking photos during a clash that broke out between Ansar men and suspected Covid-19 patients at the hospital premises.

Kuwait’s Public Prosecution decided to send two Kuwaiti officials to jail, while Parliamentary Legislative Committee has lifted immunity of two MPs for interrogation for their alleged involvement in human trafficking, money laundering and bribery linked to Bangladesh MP Shahid Islam.

A five-month-old infant in Adabor and a woman in Mohammadpur are killed in the capital.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation in areas under its juisdiction from tomorrow (Saturday) to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes, carriers of both dengue and chikungunya.

Veteran journalist Faruk Quazi is no more. He passed away in his sleep at 8am today at his Elephant Road residence. He was 71.

Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik yesterday expressed concern over the Election Commission’s steps to formulate a separate law for political parties’ registration with the commission, after repealing some clauses from the Representation of the People’s Order-1972.

Dhaka South City Corporation ( DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said that those who sell adulterated food and later raise questions about the quality of testing, will no longer be able to so as DSCC has built a modern food testing laboratory.

Tributes continued to pour in yesterday for founding chairman and CEO of Transcom Group Latifur Rahman, who breathed his last on Wednesday morning.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has decided to virtually continue functions of Appellate Division of Supreme Court this month.