The health ministry’s inefficiency in preparing documents related to vaccine purchases has been delaying getting vaccines from China and Russia, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday while talking about various government efforts in acquiring vaccines urgently from various countries.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said the harassment and arrest of Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam is very regrettable.

The state asked for more time, and time is what they got yesterday, as Metropolitan Magistrate Md Baki Billah postponed deciding on Rozina Islam’s bail until next Sunday.

The seizure list of items allegedly seized from daily Prothom Alo’s Senior Reporter Rozina Islam does not directly list any documents pertaining to non-disclosure agreements with China and Russia, as posited by the first information report of the case against the journalist.

Construction of a rail line from Faridpur’s Madhukhali to Magura is finally going to start this month, around three years after the government approved the Tk 1,202.49-crore project.

All services relating to National Identity (NID) cards are set to be shifted from the Election Commission to the home ministry.

The government will continue to offer the scope for legalising undisclosed money in the upcoming budget, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said yesterday.

A Dhaka court fixed today to hear the bail petition of Prothom Alo Senior Reporter Rozina Islam after hearing part of the petition yesterday.

The UN expressed concerns over the harassment and arrest of journalist Rozina Islam in Dhaka.

Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) has expressed dismay at the physical harassment of daily Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam at the secretariat and the handover of the journalist to police on Monday.

It is not often that the government spends public money (does it have the right to do so?) to vilify a senior journalist who has established her credentials as a bold, effective and highly competent investigative journalist.

She wasn’t handcuffed. Yet, she was indeed guarded by hordes of police personnel all the time: from custody to court. Following an overnight stay in custody, she was taken to court with a “guard of dishonour” and then hauled on to a prison van to jail on Tuesday.

The country’s health sector looks ill-equipped to tackle a massive surge in Covid cases or anything close to the situation in India. Though there have been some improvements in management capacity over the last year, experts say it is far from enough.

The Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has expressed outrage over the harassment of Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam.

Bangladesh’s remittance growth in 2020 was the highest in South Asia with an 18.4 percent rise from the previous year, thanks to a shift in flow from cash to digital and from informal to formal, said a latest World Bank report.

The UN Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting yesterday amid a diplomatic push to end the devastating conflict between Israel and Gaza’s armed groups that has killed more than 220 people.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Prothom Alo journalist Rozina Islam to jail, as protests raged on across the country demanding her immediate release.

Calls grew louder for the immediate release of Prothom Alo’s investigative reporter Rozina Islam, who was arrested on Monday in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act, 1923.

For what crime Rozina Islam, a senior correspondent of Prothom Alo, a renowned journalist, highly respected among her peers and known for her bold and insightful reporting, is going to be in jail till tomorrow when hearing of her bail petition will be held?

Even when the nation was facing a grave situation amid the Covid-19 outbreak, systemic corruption raged in the health ministry.