The health minister inaugurated an application software named “Surokkha Covid-19 Vaccine Prodan App” at Kurmitola General Hospital in the capital around noon yesterday.

The mass vaccination campaign has so far drawn much fewer women than men.

Fifteen more coronavirus-related deaths and 391 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.

The High Court yesterday heavily criticised police and doctors of Brahmanbaria after finding inconsistancies in reports submitted in a case filed over the rape of a child.

A human trafficking syndicate formed a nexus with immigration police personnel at Sylhet Osmani International Airport and got a woman trafficked to the United Kingdom with a fake passport, a CID probe has found.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday that Anis Ahmed and Haris Ahmed -- the brothers of Army Chief General Aziz Ahmed -- were pardoned in accordance with law.

Ignoring its own probe committee’s recommendation to take punitive measures against 21 officials for purchase anomalies, the railways ministry has promoted one of them and started the process for another.

The Daily Star got a long, animated response from Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan on why the ministry overlooked the recommendations of its own probe report on 21 officials.

A malware campaign using spoof domains of critical Bangladeshi service websites has been uncovered recently.

A High Court verdict yesterday said if perpetrators were successful in implementing their plan to blast two powerful bombs, weighing 76kg and 40kg respectively, in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara in July 2000, when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was supposed to address a rally there, the incident would be similar to the August 15 massacre.

Exercising an extraordinary jurisdiction, the High Court yesterday directed the telecom regulator to immediately remove Al Jazeera report “All the Prime Minister’s Men” from online platforms in order to prevent “further worsening of the situation”.

A sedition case was filed yesterday against four people, including Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist and Netra News Editor-in-Chief Tasneem Khalil and Hungary-based entrepreneur Zulkarnain Saer Khan alias Sami, over the Al Jazeera report titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men”.

Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder had played tricks on four non-bank financial institutions in such a way that no one could suspect anything before around Tk 10,000 crore were siphoned from those.

While the progress in inoculation drives is good in major cities, including divisional headquarters, it is still poor in small towns and rural areas as people there find the online registration process burdensome, divisional health experts said.

The UK yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to continue the Generalised System of Preferences for Bangladesh even after its graduation to a developing country from a least developed one.

Bangladesh Army Chief General Aziz Ahmed has said that demeaning the army chief is tantamount to demeaning the prime minister.

Rafida Ahmed Bonya, wife of slain blogger-writer Avijit Roy, today released a statement following the verdict in the murder case.

Writer-blogger Avijit Roy was killed to gag and discourage freedom of expression so that no one in the country can write or express themselves freely.

His name had been on the list of the most wanted people on Bangladesh Police’s website for several years.

The education ministry is going to finalise the draft of the Education Act soon keeping a provision for imposing a ban on printing, publishing, and marketing notebooks and guidebooks.