Old problems greet the Prime Minister-led Executive Committee of the National Economic Council when it convenes today for its first meeting for 2022: applications for project revisions.

“It was one of the best days. Yes, it was challenging but the process was fantastic. We managed to execute our plan brilliantly and I think the boys really did well,” Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud said after Bangladesh took a rare 73-run first innings lead over New Zealand on the third day of the first Test yesterday.

Different bodies exist in Bangladesh to ensure road safety, but they are not empowered and lack effective coordination to get expected outcomes.

Nine people, including three teenage boys, were killed, while many others injured, in five separate road accidents in Dinajpur, Barishal, Jashore and Bogura yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government has started filing fictitious cases against the leaders and activists of their party again as it got scared seeing the mass wave of people in their recent programmes.

Newly appointed Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique yesterday issued a stern warning against corruption and irregularities.

Dhaka has requested Washington to reconsider the sanctions imposed on Rab and its seven current and former officials.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has taken a step to formulate a “National Smooth Transition Strategy”, aiming to make smooth graduation of Bangladesh from Least Developed Country (LDC) group to a developing one.

Islami Andolon Bangladesh yesterday rejected President Abdul Hamid’s invitation to a dialogue on the formation of the next election commission.

Led by a Bangladeshi scientist, a group of researchers at Rice University in Texas developed a way to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables using an entirely edible and washable protein-based coating.

School authorities handed over new textbooks to students yesterday, the first day of the academic year, though many authorities could not give full sets of secondary textbooks.

After a somewhat uneventful period amid the pandemic, politics began heating up in the latter part of 2021 over the Union Parishad polls and the formation of the Election Commission.

With Covid-19 cases continuing to surge, health facilities in Khulna are grappling with an acute crisis of hospital beds and oxygen due to the influx of patients.

Nearly 70 percent of Bangladesh’s RT-PCR testing facilities, needed for accurate diagnosis of Covid-19, are based in the Dhaka division -- a worrying discovery seeing that the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak has shifted out of the capital and its surrounding areas.

Opposition lawmakers yesterday criticised Health Minister Zahid Maleque for what they said was his failure in ensuring oxygen supplies to different hospitals and the recent deaths of Covid-19 patients amid oxygen supply shortage in Satkhira and Bogura.

Public and vehicular movement seemed to have increased on the streets of Dhaka and elsewhere on the third day of the countrywide "lockdown".

The number of new cases of Covid-19 rose by 51 percent in the past week from yesterday compared to the previous one, said a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Expressing frustration over people not paying heed to her call on celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr at their respective locations, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said had the people followed her call, the coronavirus situation in the country wouldn't have worsened like it is now.

A murder case accused has brought allegations of sexual harassment and physical torture against some policemen in Barishal.

Medical oxygen supply to public hospitals in at least two divisions has come under severe strain as its demand doubled amid a surge in Covid patients requiring the life-saving gas over the past few weeks.