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

Shahidul Islam of Cumilla returned home on September 10 from Saudi Arabia after losing a restaurant job there.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged world leaders to formulate a well-coordinated roadmap to face the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump’s campaign has lost court rulings in the closely contested states of Georgia and Michigan and Pennsylvania, even as it vowed to bring a new lawsuit challenging what it called voting irregularities in Nevada.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia for the first time yesterday, putting him on the verge of winning the White House.

Ever since Abdur Rashid got acquitted in the sensational BDR killing case from the lower court, his family members have been counting days to see him walk out of jail.

Health officials yesterday reported 1,842 new cases of Covid-19 -- the highest in a single day in the last 56 days.

More than half of Tk 68.16 crore meant for the government’s seven climate change mitigation projects have been misappropriated, said a Transparency International Bangladesh report.

The government yesterday signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd to collect three crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines from Serum.

Former vice president Joe Biden, making his third run at the White House, was tantalizingly close to victory yesterday as President Donald Trump sought to stave off defeat with scattershot legal challenges.

A High Court bench yesterday threw out the case against 219 returnee migrant workers from Gulf states, stated a press statement issued by Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit.

Frequent call drops and disruptions have been a bane for a large chunk of the country’s more than 16 crore mobile subscribers in the first eight months of the year.

The migrant workers’ crisis, which emerged after the outbreak of novel coronavirus, further deepened with the government response marred by inappropriate decisions coupled with delayed and inadequate actions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged judges and lawyers to ensure people’s right to quick and hassle-free justice.

Despite retaining the House of Representatives, the path for Democrats to flip control of the US Senate narrowed sharply yesterday after three key Republicans facing tough reelection battles claimed victory.

Online misinformation about the results of the US election continued to spread yesterday as President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory with millions of votes still to be counted and pushed unfounded allegations about the counting of legitimate ballots.

The excruciatingly close US presidential election hung in the balance yesterday, with Democrat Joe Biden leading in two critical Midwestern states that could tip the contest in his favor even as President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory and made unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud.

The government will import “three crore” doses of novel coronavirus vaccines from India’s Serum Institute, a top health ministry official told The Daily Star last night.

At least 17 people from religious and ethnic minorities have been killed between March and September, as communal attacks continued even amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh Hindu, Bouddha, Christian Oikya Parishad said yesterday.

Pankaj Bhattacharya is one of the few veteran left-wing idealistic politicians in Bangladesh. He spent his entire life holding on to his ideologies, which he has never compromised with. This politician is the president of Oikya NAP.