Saudi Arabia has suspended all international flights for a week amid reports of the appearance of a new mutated strain of novel coronavirus in the UK.

Bangladesh will get six crore shots of Covid-19 vaccines between May and June next year from the COVAX facility, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday sought a list of names and addresses of Bangladeshi nationals with dual citizenships and dual passports, who have purchased or built houses abroad by laundering money.

Mismanagement, corruption and absence of proper planning are responsible for the losses incurred by the state-owned jute and sugar mills, and workers in no way can be blamed, a group of educationists and researchers said.

The world yesterday scrambled to contain a fast-spreading mutation of the coronavirus sweeping Britain, as a growing number of countries suspended flights from the UK, sowing travel chaos ahead of the holidays.

Bangladesh has moved up two notches in the Human Development Index this year, but remains behind four other South Asian countries.

Krishnapad, 45, has spent his whole life in the coastal area of Swandip’s Sontoshpur union and earned for his family and himself as a fisherman.

Distinguished citizens have brought “baseless” allegations against the Election Commission, said Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury yesterday.

The gatekeeper of Joypurhat’s Puranpoil level crossing failed to lower the gate on time as he was either sleeping or drowsy, causing the accident that left 12 people dead and eight others injured, a railway probe found.

With the government finalising the Covid vaccine deployment plan, a number of speakers yesterday warned that there may be chaos if the plan is not consistent with field-level reality.

Thirty-eight people have died in the country from Covid-19 in the 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Multiple agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed during a virtual summit between Bangladesh and India on December 17. Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, who was busy with the developments, was in cheerful mood. The Daily Star made a phone call to have a discussion with the minister.

Although Bangladesh achieved food security and improved access to food, eight percent of the households where the urban poor live still go to sleep with empty stomachs, reveals a government survey.

Claiming that the questions were too hard, some candidates of the written test of Bangladesh Bar Council enrollment exam yesterday went berserk in different exam centres, preventing others from taking the test and burning their answer scripts.

At least 12 people were killed and eight others injured as a train hit a bus on a level crossing near Joypurhat town yesterday morning.

Today marks a year since the development sector’s lighthouse had gone out.

Forty-two distinguished citizens have urged the president to constitute Supreme Judicial Council to investigate allegations of corruption and other misconduct against the Election Commission.

In a major development, 19 public universities announced the minimum requirement for appearing in the admission test and question patterns for what officials said would be the first-ever uniform admission test.

Experts and researchers from six Asian countries have called for implementing agrarian and social security reforms to protect farmers from the adverse impacts of Covid-19.

The government has extended the closure of all educational institutions, which remain closed since March, until January 16 amid a steady rise in the number of infections and deaths from Covid-19.