The government has failed to provide a special honorarium to healthcare professionals more than four months into its announcement of rewarding medical frontliners in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Different bacteria have already developed resistance to most life-saving antibiotics, but widespread irrational use of the drugs during the pandemic have raised fears of even more drug-resistant germs.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in yesterday’s cabinet meeting asked the authorities concerned to make people wear facemasks outside home to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Raziur Rahman has just recovered from Covid-19 after staying a week at a government hospital.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday assured the people that the government has paid special attention to keep them safe from coronavirus amid apprehensions of deterioration of the situation in winter.

The rise of Monir Hossain, also known as Golden Monir, over almost two decades was unaffected by regime change because he knew how to keep high-ups in the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and the housing and public works ministry happy.

A World Health Organization (WHO) special Covid-19 envoy has predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.

Badal Roy, an iconic footballer of the national team, breathed his last at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 62.

The High Court yesterday issued an injunction to restrain people from laundering money abroad, observing that those who do so have no patriotism and betray the country.

The country saw a rise in the number of deaths from Covid-19 as 28 more people died in 24 hours till yesterday morning, taking the death toll to 6,350.

The government has not yet been able to launch the antigen-based rapid testing kit at the designated healthcare facilities even two months after approval.

Detectives yesterday arrested three leaders and activists of BNP-affiliated bodies on charges of being directly involved in torching a bus in the capital’s Paltan on November 12.

He worked as a salesperson at different shopping malls in the capital in the 90s. Then he started smuggling in gold bars to the country, and became so good at it that his acquaintances started calling him Golden Monir.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh always believes in peaceful coexistence with all neighbours, but it is also ever ready to protect its sovereignty from any aggressive attack.

Elected lawmaker of Dhaka-7 three times since 1996, he has over the years either had a hand in the destruction of heritage sites and antiquities in his constituency or never showed political support to heritage conservation.

The government has alerted the banks about the threat of a cyberattack, instructing them to put in place precautionary measures to prevent hackers from stealing money.

Introducing themselves as students, four youths rented an under-construction building in Sirajganj’s Shahjadpur nearly three weeks ago.

US President-elect Joe Biden yesterday accused Donald Trump of brazenly damaging democracy, as the incumbent’s campaign to reverse his election loss through fraud claims was dealt another blow with a recount in Georgia.

It was “out of curiosity” that Mohammad Limon (not his real name) first took marijuana with his friends nearly two decades ago. But soon he started taking the substance regularly and got addicted.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought coordinated global action to monitor the nature of infections, implement the required control measures and raise awareness against the widespread use of antibiotics.