Uncertainty looms large over the smooth vaccine campaign as the government is yet to get any specific date from Serum Institute of India about receiving the pending consignment of AstraZeneca doses.

Different streets and intersections in the capital witnessed increased traffic on the second day of the weeklong “strict lockdown” amid the second wave of coronavirus.

With love, respect and grief, people of all walks of life bade farewell to Awami League lawmaker Abdul Matin Khasru yesterday.

The World Bank has agreed to provide $500 million to Bangladesh in additional financing to buy Covid-19 vaccines, but set some conditions regarding the procurement of the shots.

From slogans to smear campaigns, election pledges to blame games, Bangladesh has featured heavily in the discourse of rival parties in India’s ongoing West Bengal assembly polls.

The holy month of Ramadan – a time when Muslims engage in self-purification through fasting and abstinence -- begins in the country today as the new crescent moon was sighted in the sky yesterday evening.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to follow health guidelines and celebrate Pahela Boishakh at home as the nation enters a strict weeklong lockdown to contain the upsurge in coronavirus cases.

Researchers in Germany have found that the South African and Brazillian variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus might be able to evade “plasma therapy”.

Doctors have observed symptoms like severe fatigue, muscle pain, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, sleeplessness, and conjunctivitis in a large number of Covid-19 patients requiring medical treatment.

The Bangla year 1428 arrives today without the vigour and melody that comes with Pahela Baishakh.

People in their thousands left the capital for their village homes yesterday as the government is set to enforce what officials dubbed as a nationwide strict lockdown for a week starting this morning.

Despite the recent spike in Covid-19 infections, South Asia excluding India is recovering, led by Bangladesh, due to higher-than-expected exports and remittances, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.

The government’s decision to suspend all international flights for a week from Wednesday onwards to contain the spread of Covid-19 has put aspiring migrant workers in a perplexing situation.

The Covid-19 pandemic has reversed Bangladesh’s steady trend of poverty reduction which had continued over the past two decades, according to a new report of the World Bank.

The Police Bureau of Investigation in a probe report says Hefajat-e Islam Amir Junaid Babunagari and 42 others were involved in “creating an atmosphere that hastened the death” of the Islamist outfit’s supremo Shah Ahmad Shafi.

As the country braces for what officials said would be a strict lockdown from tomorrow, thousands of people left Dhaka for their village homes yesterday, ignoring the risks of contracting coronavirus while travelling.

Bangladesh recorded the highest Covid-19 deaths yesterday with 83 more fatalities in 24 hours till morning, taking the death toll from the virus to 9,822.

Family members of the man, whose body was found at now-suspended Awami League leader’s house in Gaibandha, alleged that police dillydallied recording a murder case for hours, saying that the complaint should make no mention of the role of two police officers.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has tested positive for Covid-19, family sources and the party said yesterday.

Economists have suggested that the government open a hotline service through which ultra-poor people facing food crisis during “lockdown” can communicate their sufferings and the government can take prompt steps to get food to them.