The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a leave-to-appeal petition with the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that emphasised formulation of a specific law or rule regarding imposing embargo on corruption suspects or accused leaving the country.

Covid-19 infection rate in Chattogram is highest among people aged between 31 and 40 while the death rate is highest among those above 60, according to the civil surgeon’s office.

Authorities are unlikely to meet the deadline for early commissioning of country’s first ever metro rail in December this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the High Court orders that prohibited the authorities concerned from evicting 24 illegal brick kilns having no valid licence in Chattogram, clearing the way for shutting them down.

Bangladesh can face a fresh embargo regarding visa issuance for entry to South Korea. Such a concern is looming since many Bangladeshis who entered South Korea in the past two months with Covid-19 negative certificates were later tested positive there.

Officer-in-Charge of Dharmapasha Police Station Delwar Hossain was withdrawn and attached to Police Lines on Wednesday night over harassment of a Dhaka University Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader in Sunamganj.

Dr Galib Ahsan Khan, a retired professor of philo-sophy at Dhaka University died of Covid-19 early yesterday at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University while undergoing treatment. His brother Prof Mahbub Ahsan Khan confirmed the news.

Kazi Sirajul Islam, a renowned social worker of Cumilla Sadar South, breathed his last on Wednesday.

With the worsening situation of the Covid-19 pandemic, field hospitals and isolation centres in he port city are opening again, to handle the increasing numbers of patients.

A gas leakage caused an explosion at the residence of Abdus Salam, mayor of Mirkadim municipality under Munshiganj on Tuesday, injuring 13 people.

Murshed Ali, a freedom fighter and a Communist Party of Bangladesh leader, died at a city hospital yesterday, aged 76.

To ensure social distancing, Gandaria police have again shifted the capital’s Dhupkhola kitchen market -- which usually sat by a road -- to Dhupkhola playground again.

At least 10 people were injured in a three-way collision involving a truck, a trolley, and an autorickshaw at Patuakhali’s Amkhola Bazar area yesterday noon.

A total of 260 foreign workers of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant who returned from their home countries -- mostly from Russia -- were sent to institutional quarantine yesterday.

The High Court has summoned 129 loan defaulters from International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), including much-talked about Proshanta Kumar Halder known as PK Halder, directing them to appear before it to place their plans about returning around Tk 1,800 crore.

Ramiz Uddin had become jobless during last year’s shutdown. To carry on with his life, he had taken Tk 2 lakh loan from a bank and invested the money in coconut business.

Speakers at a virtual discussion yesterday underscored the need for providing technological, financial and educational support to those working in artisanal marine fisheries to ensure their human rights and enrich their livelihoods.

A fire incident on Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus severely burnt trees and plants on about 10 acres of reserve forest area yesterday.

Attack on minorities on the pretext of Facebook post insulting religion has become a familiar tactic, claimed a citizen delegation that visited Noagaon village in Shalla of Sunamganj on March 26 and 27.

An auto-rickshaw driver died after a bus hit his vehicle in Dhaka’s New Market area this morning.