“Do you want to earn Tk 20,000 per month working from home for only two hours a day?”

When Covid-19 infections and deaths were rising in mid-June, about 16,000 people used to get tested every day at the 49 laboratories.

Thirty-six people, including Mamunul Haque, a top Hefajat leader, were sued yesterday over “killing” the former chief of the Islamist outfit Shah Ahmad Shafi.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know specifically the names and addresses of Bangladeshi nationals who have laundered money abroad and purchased houses in foreign countries, including Canada, Singapore, and Malaysia.

To stop narcotics smuggling through national and international courier services, the Department of Narcotics Control has recommended National Identity Card server access for couriers.

Drug traffickers smuggled four to five stashes of yaba pills in luggages or shipping boxes out of the country through the airports every month in the last two years.

After photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol was “found” near the Indian border in the middle of the night 53 days after his disappearance, his family thought he would be coming home soon.

India promised to promptly and effectively deliver to Bangladesh the Covid-19 vaccines it is producing and developing as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi held a virtual summit yesterday.

As the number of Covid-19 infections has been rising since November, the demand for ICU beds at hospitals in the capital has almost doubled.

Reiterating her call to the people to stay firm on the non-communal spirit of the Liberation War, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said people of all religious faiths would live in the country with equal rights.

Water sharing and management of trans-boundary rivers will dominate today’s Bangladesh-India summit to be led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, said officials.

The global scheme to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries faces a “very high” risk of failure, potentially leaving nations home to billions of people with no access to vaccines until as late as 2024, internal documents said.

The nation yesterday celebrated Victory Day, saluting the supreme sacrifice of the gallant sons and daughters of the soil and vowing afresh to uproot fundamentalism.

Three years ago, the government undertook a project to preserve the sites bearing historic value of the Liberation War for future generations to learn about the country’s tumultuous birth.

Calling sculptures anti-Islamic, Qawmi madrasa-based clerics, many of whom are Hefajat leaders, have proposed that the government construct minarets instead of sculptures of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Issuing a strong warning against religious fanatics, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government would not let anyone create any division and anarchy in the country over religion.

The government has recognised 61 more Biranganas (war heroines) for their contribution and sacrifice during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

It was past midnight at Saidpur Rail Station. In the dim light, mostly Hindu Marwaris and some Bangalees from all walks of life could be seen standing beside the platform. Tense, even those who knew each other were not talking.

An eight-year-old girl has been killed after rape in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila.

Airlines carrying passengers without Covid-19 negative certificates will have to face flight suspension penalty from now on.