The home ministry sacked a senior jail superintendent and a jailer of Kashimpur Central Jail-1 for letting an inmate spend time with a woman inside a prison officer’s room.

The mass inoculation against Covid-19 begins tomorrow, but the government’s campaign to raise awareness on the vaccination has hardly reached rural areas.

Several hundred teachers and students protested at a Myanmar university yesterday as the military widened a dragnet against officials ousted in a coup that has drawn global condemnation and the threat of new sanctions.

Compensation for rape victims and their family members remains elusive in the existing criminal justice system, with a clear mandate absent in the relevant law, say legal experts.

Three men were crushed to death in a road accident on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Narayanganj’s Kanchpur area yesterday.

Despite taking a big lead in the first innings, Bangladesh are still in some discomfort after West Indies managed to dismiss their top three batsman at the end of the third day of the first Test at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Fifty people, including a former BNP lawmaker, were jailed for different terms in a case filed over the attack on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s motorcade in Kolaroa in 2002.

Amid the lukewarm response from people to register for Covid-19 vaccination, the government has instructed local government representatives to ensure registration of people in rural areas.

The United Nations Security Council yesterday called for the release of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military and voiced concern over the state of emergency there but stopped short of condemning the coup.

Mehedi Hasan Miraz’s maiden century helped Bangladesh post a big first-innings total of 430 before Mustafizur Rahman, the lone pacer in the side, claimed two early West Indian wickets to keep the hosts on top as they lead by 355 runs after the second day of the first Test.

The authorities might start trial runs of the country’s first ever metro rail service in July as the first train is expected to arrive in April, officials said.

Dhaka city dwellers are suffering due to shortage of pipeline gas for two months and the authorities’ promises to solve the problem so far appear empty.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by a Narail court in a defamation case over making derogatory comments about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

While a large majority of countries recorded a decline in their total score compared to the previous year, Bangladesh fared better in the Democracy Index-2020 released yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said border surveillance has been stepped up to prevent trespassing from Myanmar after the military coup in the neighbouring country.

Myanmar police have filed charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for illegally importing communications equipment and she will be detained until February 15 for investigations, according to a police document.

Criticising Al Jazeera for a recent report on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, top ministers of the government yesterday said they were mulling legal action against the Qatar-based international news organisation.

All the Prime Minister’s Men Tuesday reminded readers, to some extent, of All the President’s Men, a book based on epic investigative journalism that revealed the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed displeasure over frequent revisions of projects and directed the authorities to take legal action against those responsible for flawed project designs that ultimately push up costs.

The government has decided to inoculate 35 lakh people, instead of 60 lakh, against Covid-19 in the first month of vaccination apparently due to a lukewarm response to online registration.