“The day feels unreal,” said Monorom Polok after his father, photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, was released from the Dhaka Central Jail yesterday.

Britain clinched a narrow Brexit trade deal with the European Union yesterday, just seven days before it exits one of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire.

Scientists in Bangladesh have reported a new Covid-19 strain, which is a bit similar to the one found in the UK recently.

The country’s Christian community is celebrating the holy Christmas today commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ amid festivity and religious fervour.

A local lawmaker has put forward a proposal to change the status of nearly 600 acres of reserve forest and wildlife sanctuary in Cox’s Bazar into khas land for leasing it out to the people living there.

A master’s student of chemistry at Dhaka College who was planning to finish post-graduation a while ago, he is now waiting impatiently for his remaining exams to be over so that he can shoulder some of the family responsibilities that his father bears alone.

The government initiative to block pornography websites has proved a futile exercise due to lack of technological knowhow and concerted efforts from the state agencies.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that stayed the trial proceedings of a case filed against Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat.

The government has primarily selected four sites on the periphery of the capital to set up four bus terminals to stop inter-district buses from entering the city.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday requested the Bangladesh Bank to instruct eight commercial banks to freeze 613 bank accounts of independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul, his wife, daughter, and sister-in-law.

Air travellers from the UK without Covid-19 negative certificates would be quarantined for seven days.

India’s Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi citizen along the border in Mymensingh Tuesday night while the director general of the force was participating in a conference with their Bangladeshi counterparts where the top agenda was to stop border killings.

Government steps for curbing road crashes and bringing discipline in the road transport sector continue to remain confined to holding meetings and forming committees and sub-committees.

The health directorate reported 17 people died from Covid-19 -- the lowest daily count in the last five weeks -- in 24 hours ending 8:00am yesterday.

Bangladesh will decide on suspending flights to the UK after understanding the situation over the spread of a new strain of the novel coronavirus there, Mohibul Haque, senior secretary of the civil aviation and tourism ministry, said yesterday.

“Please save me, I have no other option but to die.”

Supply of liquid oxygen to public hospitals has been under strain as a production plant of a key supplier remains out of service for nearly two weeks.

As Italy has enlisted Bangladesh as one of the 30 countries eligible to send seasonal and non-seasonal workers after an eight-year long suspension, Italian authorities have urged aspirants to use legal pathways.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government officials and public university teachers who do not stay in the houses and quarters earmarked for them will not be given any house rent allowances.

Independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul and his family members amassed more than Tk 355 crore mainly through human trafficking over the last several years.