No Covid-19 patients have been found so far in 90 punjis (villages) in Sylhet, with each completely isolating itself from outsiders and following strict hygiene protocols.

The Covid-19 outbreak has exposed the ineffectiveness of the country’s healthcare system which needs reforms, experts said at a discussion yesterday.

Mentioning that Bangladesh emphasizes on its development through cooperation and collaboration, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the country’s relations with India and China should not be compared.

Calls pour in to increase budget for the health sector but the health ministry, despite being a top recipient of the government’s development expenditure, could not even reach the national average of ADP implementation rate in the last six years.

Witnesses in a narcotic case, filed against Stamford University student Shipra Debnath, claimed they were forced to sign on blank papers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib’s decision to reject Bangabandhu’s release on parole changed the course of the country’s political history.

Most of the major public universities are taking online classes with only half or even fewer students mostly because of poor internet coverage in rural areas and people not having access to a digital device.

The life of a mountaineer was cut short at the age of 34 as a microbus hit her bicycle on Lake Road, adjacent to Chandrima Udyan, in the capital yesterday morning.

At least two people died and more than 20 others were seriously injured yesterday when an Indian passenger jet skidded off the runway in heavy rain, media reports and officials said.

Mahin Mia was serving guests in a Lebanese restaurant, which is a seven minutes’ walk from the warehouse that exploded on Tuesday evening, rocking entire Beirut.

Construction mogul GK Shamim has Tk 337.30 crore in 180 fixed deposit accounts with different banks, two houses in the capital and 52 kathas of land worth Tk 41 crore, according to charges pressed before a Dhaka court on Wednesday.

More than two years have gone by but Ayesha Begum, wife of slain Teknaf municipality councillor Akramul Haque, still does not know whether there has been any investigation into her husband’s killing.

Thousands of people in flood-hit areas in the country’s northern and north-eastern regions are struggling with their livelihood as they have been left unemployed for weeks.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a persistent fear has been that of false negatives -- cases of those infected with the transmissible virus testing negative and being allowed to carry on with their regular lives, risking further infection.

Bangladesh has decided to send emergency food, medical supplies and a medical team to Lebanon after the massive destruction caused by the twin explosions at Beirut Port on Tuesday evening.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the authorities concerned to work for making the country’s investment climate more attractive overcoming the problems caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Amid the pandemic, the government has directed all public servants to attend offices in full swing from next week, lifting restrictions on their attendance in person.

Over 23 people on average have died every day since March 18, the day the country recorded its first Covid-19 death.

More than 8.5 million students are facing uncertainty over the holding of their public exams as the government is yet to make a final decision in this regard.

In November 2015, a police probe found the then officer-in-charge Pradeep Kumar Das of Bayezid Bostami Police Station guilty of filing a false case against an oil company high-ups to harass them.