Educationists have called for increasing allocation for education sector in the upcoming budget to implement plans to help students overcome Covid-19 induced learning crisis and possible drop outs from schools.

Two persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Dhaka yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said Hefajat-e-Islam has done enough vandalism across the country.

The government will take necessary initiatives to procure vaccines from any source to save people’s lives, road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Minara Begum died on Monday night. At 60 years old, she could no longer withstand the continuing suffering caused to her by a slew of old-age complications, including a deadly heart disease.

A project was undertaken to develop the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan and make it greener, but authorities are seemingly contradicting one of their own goals, as under the same project, they are felling old trees to construct buildings.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has directed the judicial magistrates concerned to record statements from the complainants of the relevant cases in their physical presence under Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) following the health and hygiene guidelines.

Six people were killed seven others injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, report our correspondents.

Intern doctors of Chattogram Medical College Hospital suddenly went for work stoppage yesterday following a clash between two factions of CMC unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League the day before, causing suffering to patients.

Another writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking necessary directives in connection with the incidents of killing and injuring the workers of the SS Power I Plant in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram since 2016 to April 17 this year.

Police yesterday rescued a nine-year-old boy from Manikganj, five days after he had been abducted from Karnapara in Savar.

Dhaka city is suffering from sound pollution three times of tolerable level. As a result, around half a crore people are at health risk, Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Mohammad Shahab Uddin said at a programme yesterday.

Detective Branch (DB) of police busted a fake cosmetics factory in in Rajshahi city and arrested its owner last night.

A man who sustained burn injuries in a gas explosion at a building in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on Friday died at a hospital in Dhaka last night.

Hotel quarantine is mandatory for people arriving in Qatar from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, local newspaper Gulf Times reports quoting the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Qatar.

Police yesterday arrested five teenagers on charge of killing a 15-year-old boy in Chattogram city’s Mohammadpur area.

It has been a long and agonising wait for Sheikh Zahid.

University Grants Commission has found an unauthorised study centre -- London School of Commerce, Dhaka -- and urged the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to close the centre.

Ahead of every spawning season, miscreants lay snares along the Halda river, the lone natural breeding ground of carp in South Asia. They net brood fish, while other aquatic creatures like dolphins also get stuck and die.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday provided Tk 10 crore as assistance to the country’s journalists during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.