Lockdown imposed by the government to contain the second wave of Covid-19 appears to be in place only on paper, as there are little to no restrictions being implemented in reality.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh’s (CAAB) latest decision to put Oman as one of 12 “high risk” countries has left hundreds of expatriates in the Gulf country waiting to come home on Eid vacation in trouble.

Police on Thursday arrested a man in Sylhet allegedly for putting up a Facebook post “defaming” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian PM Narendra Modi.

A stone-laden vessel capsized at the outer anchorage of Chattogram port yesterday morning.

Most of the upazila health complexes in Chattogram have no high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) facility, although all 14 of them have isolation wards to treat Covid-19 patients. Even many of the medical centres have no central oxygen system.

Two more mortar shells and a rocket launcher were recovered from a pond near the martyrs’ memorial on the Rajshahi University (RU) campus yesterday morning.

Forty-year-old Tasmin Begum was seen buying a pack of lentils for Tk 10 from her local shop near Karail slum last Monday.

In 1983, upon completing my engineering education in the United States, I took a software engineering job in California’s Silicon Valley.

Sabrina Sobhan, wife of Bashundhara Group Managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, along with seven members of their family left the country through a chartered flight this evening.

The new feature makes a big change when it comes to app developers tracking user data to sell it to advertisers.

The Directorate of Consumer Rights Protection in Rajshahi yesterday seized government essential products from the residence of one of the dealers of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).

Chalan beel has to be declared as an “environmentally critical area” and a separate and independent body has to be formed to take up planned development projects giving priority to the environmental issues, said speakers at a programme yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Akram Hossain, general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra Adhikar Parishad’s Dhaka University unit, on a two-day remand in a case filed for snatching away an arrestee who was undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on March 25.

Three leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam were placed on remand for different terms yesterday in two cases filed with Paltan Police Station over the violence in Dhaka on March 26.

Ashikuzzaman Khan, a computer engineer, who was injured in the deadly fire in Old Dhaka’s Armanitola on April 23, died on Wednesday night while undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Institute.

The two-month ban on fishing at six hilsa sanctuaries is going to end today (Friday) at midnight.

Italy has banned travellers from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka amid worsening coronavirus situation.

The UN General Assembly has unanimously adopted a historic resolution on Global Drowning Prevention introduced by Bangladesh.

Dhaka University authorities have rescheduled its admission test for the session 2020-21 of honour’s first year, as the Covid-19 situation is deteriorating.

Manusher Jonno Foundation yesterday expressed concern and grief over the recent death of a woman at a city flat and reported anticipatory bail petition by an accused in a case filed over the death incident.