Thursday’s chaos on Rajshahi University campus can be attributable to the lack of effective steps after a government report mentioned that bribery, questionable recruitment and financial irregularities were rampant in the administration when Prof Abdus Sobhan was the vice chancellor.

A mathematical model prepared by advisers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggests India’s coronavirus outbreak could peak in the coming days, but the group’s projections have been changing and were wrong last month.

A narrow V-shaped bend in the Buriganga river, one of the major channels of the country’s inland waterways communications, has increasingly become an accident-prone zone in recent years.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s doctors said she can be taken abroad once she becomes consistently stable.

“Where will you go? Up to the [Paturia ferry] ghat or further?” “Do you need a car or a microbus?” “You can go alone or share it with other passengers.”

Russia has offered Bangladesh the Sputnik V vaccine at a rate of $9.95 for each dose.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health might not be stable enough for a long flight, her doctors said as her family members want to take her abroad for better treatment.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Muslims to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul Fitr in their present locations to help check the spread of novel coronavirus in the country.

Heavy traffic returned to the streets of the capital after operation of public buses resumed within districts yesterday following over three weeks of suspension.

Undisclosed assets worth a staggering Tk 14,295 crore have been legalised in the first nine months of this fiscal year.

Counterterrorism officers are preparing a list of extremist speakers making provocative speeches online and at public gatherings.

After facing backlash from different organisations and environmental activists, the public works department said it cut down trees at the Suhrawardy Udyan upon directives of the Liberation War affairs ministry for the implementation of a mega project at the historic site.

The government has sought immediate delivery of 4 million vaccine doses from the US, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

Outgoing Rajshahi University Vice Chancellor Prof M Abdus Sobhan violated a ministerial embargo by appointing 137 teachers and staffers on his last day in office yesterday, giving rise to daylong chaos and clashes on the campus.

Over the last decade, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been widely known in Bangladesh for her last-minute opposition to the Teesta water-sharing deal that could not be signed during the then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka in 2011.

The stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca doses is running out fast but the government, despite frantic efforts to keep the inoculation campaign on track, is yet to secure a contract for bulk supply of alternative Covid-19 vaccines.

Fifty people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Amidst opposition boycott, Mamata Banerjee, who powered Trinamool Congress to a landslide victory in West Bengal assembly elections, was sworn in as Chief Minister of the state for the third consecutive term under the shadow of violence in several parts of the state post-poll results in which 14 people were reportedly killed.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family has sought permission from the government to take her abroad for better treatment.

The government has imposed several restrictions including an embargo on leaving work stations during the upcoming Eid holidays to check the mad rush of holidaymakers, but it lacks a clear outline on how to enforce these restrictions aimed at curbing spread of Covid-19.