The government is going to make Covid-19 negative certificate mandatory for every incoming passenger from foreign countries, said Prof Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services.

The government is racing against time to print and distribute a whopping 36 crore copies of school textbooks at the upazila level on time due to severe disruptions to the massive undertaking, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formed Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League to unite the whole nation but the idea was totally misinterpreted.

The government appears to have scaled up screening at the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport amid fears of a possible spike in Covid-19 cases in the coming winter.

Twenty-six researchers from 17 Bangladeshi institutions were among the top two percent of the most cited researchers throughout their careers, found a research on metascience by Stanford University.

Akram Hossain, who died in Rab custody in Chattogram on August 16, was hit with blunt objects before his death, according to his postmortem report.

Hazrat Ali was selling grocery items at his shop on the first floor of Shegunbagicha kitchen market when a bus was set alight near Aziz Super Market in the capital’s Shabagh area around 1:40pm on Thursday.

At the early age of 17, Mohammad Apu began working at a cosmetics store to support his family after his father left a couple of years ago.At the early age of 17, Mohammad Apu began working at a cosmetics store to support his family after his father left a couple of years ago.

From petty crimes to murder, stalking to rape, mugging to drug abuse -- teen gangs have been making headlines again for the last few months.

Former Hefajat-e Islam chief Shah Ahmad Shafi was murdered by Jamaat-Shibir men for his stance against anti-liberation forces, claimed his brother-in-law Moin Uddin.

An SSC examinee of the capital’s Wari High School Abir Ahmed was killed in front of his school on January 27 this year, the day he received farewell from the institution.

Nineteen people died of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh has called on China, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka to share their experiences of combating the first wave of Covid-19 in order to effectively deal with the possible second wave.

The Awami League and the BNP yesterday traded blame for Thursday’s torching of nine buses at different places in the capital.

As people with diabetes have a higher risk of severe Covid-19 infections and death from the virus, experts said diabetic patients need to be extra careful, do regular physical activity and eat a balanced diet to stay safe.

At least 10 civilians and four security personnel were killed in cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan yesterday, in one of this year’s deadliest days along the heavily militarised frontier separating the nuclear-armed rivals, officials said.

Police claimed that the nine buses were torched in the capital on Thursday by leaders and activists of the BNP, its affiliated bodies and the BNP-led 20-party alliance at the directive of their central leaders.

The government is developing a masterplan to turn all major highways into expressways under an umbrella network to enhance mobility, reliability and safety of traffic, and reduce transportation costs for sustained economic growth.

Ruling Awami League nominees secured their places in both Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj-1 constituencies in the by-polls amid noticeably low voter turnout.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against the Prothom Alo’s Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman and eight others in a case filed over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat.