Amir Ali, his wife Amina Khatun, and their five children came to Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Maungdaw around five years ago.

With the country still trailing behind in the race to get the potential Covid-19 vaccines, a high-powered technical body advised the government to make payments in advance for the vaccines.

In August 2018, Sabiha Begum (not her real name) was approached by a group of locally influential men who wanted to buy her homestead.

The government’s Covid-19 testing expansion policy has been caught up in a bureaucratic red tape, leaving many suspected coronavirus patients dependent on expensive and time-consuming RT-PCR testing for diagnosis of the disease.

Negligence of the mosque’s committee was behind the explosion at Baitus Salat Jame Mosque in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on September 4, found a probe committee formed by Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited.

In a major setback, Padma Bridge Rail Link Project authorities have been asked to change its viaduct designs as the poor clearance of bridges would impede large lorries on approach roads.

The recent market disruption in Bangladesh due to India’s ban on onion exports could potentially cause a glitch in an Indo-Bangla relationship which is otherwise at its friendliest, analysts said.

Lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul and three managers of his company were taken to a Kuwait court yesterday on charges of human trafficking, money laundering, bribing and threatening the state security.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the health ministry showed enough efficiency in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in the country by taking necessary measures properly in time.

The total number of Covid-19 deaths yesterday rose to 4,823 as 21 new deceased patients were added to the tally.

Political influence, collusion between influential people, and syndication still play a key role in winning public procurement contracts from four government institutions despite the introduction of a simplified procurement process, says a report of Transparency International Bangladesh.

Soon after completing her MBA from Dhaka University last year, Fahmida Khan started looking for jobs. Her first choice was a government job for which the recruitment takes place through BCS exams.

Repeated assurances of sufficient stock or the promise of importing onions from alternative destinations by top-level government officials could not rein in unbridled onion prices.

Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted prime minister by parliament yesterday to become the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years, appointing a new cabinet that kept about half of the familiar faces from predecessor Shinzo Abe’s lineup.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh’s economy is more or less in a good shape now although the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to it like it has done to other countries in the world.

Shabeeb has been having trouble concentrating on his studies for the last few days. Stuck at home for six months, the fourth grader of a reputed private school in the capital has become bored and depressed.

There was a lavish ceremony inside Karim Jute Mills Corporation on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday to mark the disbursement of due wages and other benefits of the laid-off and retired workers of 25 shuttered state-run jute mills.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday framed charges against all 25 accused Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology students in the Abrar Fahad murder case.

The government has extended for six months its earlier order that suspended the jail sentence of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and released her from jail.

Onion prices have shot up dramatically in the country due to panic buying by consumers and price gouging by wholesalers in the immediate aftermath of India’s decision on Monday to suspend onion exports.