With Eid-ul-Azha just a month away, cattle farmers are in fear of incurring huge losses during the festival, as they are sensing a sharp drop in the demand for sacrificial animals due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Latifur Rahman’s legacy as a visionary, a great entrepreneur, a patriot, and a key patron of democracy and free media will live on, speakers said yesterday at a virtual memorial service for the true icon of ethical business.

Government data shows the reproduction rate of the novel coronavirus has declined over the past few weeks, but experts doubt it, saying the number of Covid-19 tests has been inadequate to come to such conclusions.

The capital’s Wari was put under strict lockdown for 21 days from yesterday morning as it was identified as a “Red Zone” due to high Covid-19 infection rate.

Many students from rural and poor families are not being able to access the distance learning adopted by schools due to the pandemic.

Though the number of dengue cases reported is so far low compared to last year, experts are warning of an outbreak as July to September is the period when cases are likely to peak.

The World Health Organization has urged countries hit by serious coronavirus outbreaks to “wake up” to the realities on the ground instead of bickering, and to “take control” as global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million.

Twenty-nine people died from Covid-19 in the 24 hours till 2:30pm yesterday, said the Directorate General of Health Services.

Though it has been 118 days since the first Covid-19 case was detected on March 8, Bangladesh still lags behind in terms of increasing the testing facilities in comparison with the other South Asian countries.

Apex Holdings Ltd has sent a rejoinder to a report headlined “Is Foul Play The New Normal” published in The Daily Star on June 26.

When Rejaul Karim visited his dentist late February with problems in one of his teeth, the doctor, upon an x-ray, advised him to have the tooth extracted.

The government’s decision to shut all state-run jute mills could not have come at a more inopportune time for the barely surviving workers in this sector.

Jannatul Ferdous was admitted to Max Hospital in Chattogram with breathing problems early last month.

Platinum Jute Mill’s worker Eratun Khatun broke down in tears when she saw the notice declaring the permanent closure of the organisation she had been with for almost three decades.

Soaring prices of daily essentials are hurting low and middle-income families in the capital as they find it increasingly hard to pay for the same basic essentials amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sunuj Ullah, Eshrak Mia, and Jamal Mia are the husbands of Mohesh Sarkar, Subol Sarkar and Kali Kanto Sarkar, respectively -- at least that’s what a list of beneficiaries for a government food programme shows.

The government has decided to shut down production at 25 state-run jute mills under Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) by providing cent percent dues of some 25,000 workers.

The number of Covid-19 patients in the country surged past the 1.5 lakh-mark as 4,019 new cases of infections were reported yesterday, so far the highest in a single day.

The committees formed by the government to help it make policy decisions to put the brakes on the pandemic have not been working properly or their recommendations were ignored.

He was a paragon of business ethics.