A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the health secretary and director general of the

Workers of the nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna region are preparing for an organised movement to protest the decision to hand all state-owned jute mills over to public private partnership.

Allegations of mistakes and mismanagement in Covid-19 test results have been growing at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram city, as the centre continues to work through the health crisis with limited resources.

Writer Barun Das, an employee of Bangladesh Betar, has breathed his last on Thursday afternoon after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Mosammat Monoara Zaman, mother of lawmaker Saifuzzaman Shikhar, has passed away at her Magura residence yesterday afternoon. She had been suffering from old age complications, family sources said. She was 75.

Superintendent of Jashore Police Muhammad Ashraf Hossain yesterday submitted a probe report to the High Court, saying that three police personnel of Kotwali Police Station had taken “unethical benefits” from the father of college student Imran Hossain for releasing him from their custody.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against a government officer, two union parishad (UP) members and three others for misappropriating about 39.3 thousand kg rice from Food for Work project.

They mostly worked in small groups -- around three to four persons in each one.

Over 11,000 vehicles, including 1,572 belonging to different government agencies, have not had their fitness certificates renewed for more than a decade in breach of rules, and authorities are going to declare those “write-offs” after tomorrow, officials said.

A fire that broke out at a Bata showroom in Khilgaon-Banasree area last night was extinguished after three hours of fire-fighting, but a large number of shoes and other goods were burnt to ashes.

Gas supply is suspended in some areas of Dhaka -- including Jatrabari, Demra, Shyampur and Kadamtali -- from 2:30pm to 7:00pm today due to emergency repair work.

Forty-three people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, says during a briefing.

A virtual court in Dhaka has placed photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol on a two-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Three day labourers were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Mirzapur upazila early today.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to launch an inquiry into corruption allegations against 30 Union Parishad (UP) chairpersons and 64 members.There are allegations against them of misappropriating rice and relief materials allocated for poor during the coronavirus pandemic, said ACC.

“Open the packet, put the card around your neck and it will work as a disinfectant.”

Experts at a virtual dialogue have discussed ways to convert the current challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic into opportunities through proper recovery measures, keeping Bangladesh on the right track of development.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed issued a stern warning to all members of the force of dire consequences awaiting anyone involved with narcotics in any way.

It’s been more than three months since Jahangirnagar University’s (JU) lone residential campus has been empty. On March 17, the university authorities asked students to vacate all dormitories due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Students and faculty members of Daffodil International University (DIU) are benefitting from online teaching and learning using the “Blended Learning Center (BLC)” platform during the pandemic, said a press release.