The poor and people living on the fringes have been enduring inadequate access to coronavirus testing and treatment facilities and now they are likely to have to do the same for vaccines.

The last span of the Padma Bridge is likely to be installed on pillars 12 and 13 today linking both sides of the mighty Padma river as the country’s people get closer to having their long-cherished dream come true.

Only the observance of the International Anti-Corruption Day will not be enough to fight graft, the High Court said yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Hefajat chief Junayed Babunagari are among the six BNP and Islamist leaders who were accused in a defamation case for speaking against Bangabandhu’s sculpture.

Uncertainty looms large over the expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) under the health directorate and possibly Covid-19 vaccination as around 26,000 field-level health assistants are on strike since November 26 demanding better pay.

Five people were killed and another was injured early yesterday as a truck collided head-on with a pick-up on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Gharinda Bypass area in the district.

Britain became the first Western country to start a mass coronavirus vaccine campaign with a pensioner receiving the initial jab yesterday as across the Atlantic millions of Californians went into lockdown to stop surging US infections.

The High Court yesterday directed the government authorities concerned to take appropriate legal and punitive actions against the culprits involved in damaging the sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Hefajat-e Islam is now more than a political party with a strategic disclaimer of having no political agenda.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over frequent time extension and increase in costs of government projects and directed the officials concerned to immediately put an end to such practices.

On the very first day of this year, the Anti-Corruption Commission declared that it will hunt down those who had amassed wealth illegally through casino businesses.

Eight people, including a child, were killed as a BRTC bus collided head-on with two auto-rickshaws on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned of the government to immediately take necessary steps to ensure protection of all monuments and murals of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman across the country.

Hefajat chief Junayed Babunagari and two other islamist leaders were accused in two cases of sedition yesterday.

The government is aiming to revise textbook curriculum and create technologically sound manpower to survive the upcoming fourth industrial revolution that will be driven by technology.

Until Sunday night, the sidewalks in front of the Jatiya Press Club were teeming with protesters pressing their demands for various causes, but since yesterday morning the area has been deserted.

Only four of the 60 banks in the country have set up cyber security operation centres in line with a Bangladesh Bank directive to thwart large-scale cyber-attacks.

A few RT-PCR machines, used for Covid-19 testing, remained out of order at a time when coronavirus cases are on the rise with the advent of winter.

The Election Commission yesterday cancelled the results of the by-polls to Faridpur’s Charbhadrasan upazila parishad chairman post after its probe body found “irregularities” during the election.

A Sylhet city councillor sued 18 people, including the editor of a local daily, its publisher and reporters, under the controversial Digital Security Act for publishing “a fake report” and sharing it on social media.