Four months into the pandemic, a major coronavirus testing facility is still functioning with volunteer technologists who have begun to go on strike demanding payment.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the administration to stay ready to extend all kinds of assistance to the flood-hit people as the flood may prolong this time.

Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia said it would do everything necessary for Rayhan Kabir, who was arrested by Malaysian immigration on Friday for speaking on mistreatment of migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia.

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of most farmers who have reared cattle for months for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha and are now facing a scarcity of customers.

Bribe and take a loan -- that is how Mahbubul Haque Chisty operated the now defunct Farmers Bank as its former audit committee chairman.

Tackling the Covid-19 epidemic is now the first priority and issues like corruption come after that, the new director general of the health directorate said yesterday.

The death toll from novel coronavirus infections continued to rise in the country as the health directorate reported 54 deaths yesterday.

Four months into the Covid-19 outbreak in the country, the government still appears to have no noticeable plan to contain the spread of the virus.

The dreams of thousands of farmers in the flood-hit areas of northern Bangladesh have been shattered as their crops and seedbeds washed away by floodwater.

Waterlogging in Dhaka is turning into a severe problem due to the lack of coordination among the responsible government organisations, their unhealthy competitions and culture of blame, said Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim had used the “power of media” to be on good terms with politicians, bureaucrats and law enforcers to build his criminal network, detectives said.

The US has reopened a decades-old asylum case against Rashed Chowdhury, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, keeping alive the prospect that he could be deported to Bangladesh where he has been sentenced in absentia to death.

The police have received intelligence that militant outfit “Neo JMB” could try to carry out attacks centring the Eid-ul-Azha.

“Crossfires” with law enforcers claimed multiple lives every single day for the past six days, marking a deadly streak in extra-judicial killings.

The number of samples collected in a 24-hour period for Covid-19 testing came down below the 10,000 mark yesterday -- first in the last two months.

The Malaysian Immigration Department has said Rayhan Kabir, the detained Bangladeshi national, will be deported to Bangladesh and blacklisted for criticising Putrajaya’s handling of migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic.

It was on World Press Freedom Day when Monorom Polok had to see his photojournalist father handcuffed and jailed.

Something strange is happening in the capital’s slums -- Covid-19 cases are hard to come by.

Newly appointed DGHS Director General Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam yesterday said the government alone was not responsible for the corruption in the country’s health sector.

Just three days before the medical college entrance test in 2015, Rab said it arrested the ringleader and three members of the gang that leaked the questions.