The Covid-19 pandemic has caused Bangladesh Tk 89,500 crore in GDP losses at current prices in the last fiscal year, according to a summary report of the government.

Dhaka South City Corporation former mayor Sayeed Khokon and six others have been sued on charges of embezzlement of Tk 34.89 crore.

When the Covid-19 outbreak led to a closure of educational institutions in late March, students, guardians and teachers alike speculated that the disruption would last a few months.

Seven-year-old Saiful Islam had to seek refuge in Bangladesh along with his parents in late 2017, during the military crackdown in Myanmar against the Rohingya community.

The government may defer next year’s Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary School Certificate examinations by three to four months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Five technology firms and two individuals had the 5th The Daily Star ICT Awards conferred to them yesterday in recognition of their efforts to take Bangladesh’s information and technology sector to a new height, create a solid footing for the industry and establish presence in global markets.

Saudi Arabia yesterday extended suspension of all international flights to the kingdom for another week, adding to the worries of more than 5,000 migrant workers in Bangladesh about their return to that country.

The parliamentary standing committee on health ministry has shown nothing short of indifference to the health emergency caused by the pandemic.

Rashed Khan Menon is an important figure in Bangladesh’s political history. He was at the frontlines during the mass upsurge in 1969 and the Liberation War in 1971. Currently,

Some 1,776 more Rohingyas are set to be relocated to Bhashan Char in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali today.

The University Grants Commission now wants a uniform admission system for all private universities as the majority of public universities are set to introduce the new system next year.

As many as 57,390 individuals and organisations grabbed the country’s 770 rivers.

People aged below 18 will not get the Covid-19 vaccines, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

The government is going to allow the private sector to import six lakh tonnes of rice with 25 percent duty to stabilise the rice market.

Experts have anticipated that coronavirus infections will spike in late January and early February and urged people to abide by the rules and avoid “super spreader events” at all costs.

More than two years after the Road Transport Act-2018 was passed in parliament, the government has appointed a chairman and a secretary for the trustee board that is supposed to deal with compensation-related issues after accidents.

A vast number of century-old trees have been felled by loggers at a remote reserve forest and wildlife sanctuary in Thanchi of Bandarban in the last two months, and as seen in satellite images, about a hundred acres of it have been totally razed over the last few years.

A sub-inspector and a constable of Sitakunda Model Police Station were arrested on charges of robbing a driver of Tk 2.8 lakh on Thursday night.

In talks between India’s Border Security Force and Border Guard Bangladesh, the BSF chief yet again promised that there would be no killings on the borders.

Almost a year after harmful heavy metals like cadmium, chromium and lead were found in dozens of pesticides, the government is yet to enforce mandatory tests to prevent imports of the adulterated chemicals, widely used in the country’s vast agriculture sector.