Around 41,000 people have got registered online in seven days till yesterday afternoon for taking Covid vaccines as the countrywide inoculation campaign is set to start on February 7.

A top UN official urged the United Nations Security Council yesterday to “collectively send a clear signal in support of democracy in Myanmar” as the 15-member body in an emergency meeting considered a possible statement condemning Monday’s coup.

The father of the female university student, who died on Sunday, wants justice and that too in the quickest possible time.

Jahangir Alam was not even able to complete a school education.

Bangladesh authorities have termed an Al Jazeera investigative report “false, defamatory and a politically motivated smear campaign” intended to disrupt the harmony among different government organs of the country and destabilise the secular democratic government of Bangladesh.

Despite repeated government directives on project officials to stay at project sites, road authorities continue to allow its officials to carry out their works from the RHD headquarters in the capital.

Unlike the team that surrendered meekly in the three-match ODI series, the visiting West Indies side is expected to put up a better show in the longer format when they take on Bangladesh in the first Test from today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country would move forward proving its enemies wrong despite the propaganda being carried out against it at home and abroad.

A lawmaker from Mymensingh-3 lodged a general diary on Saturday against the new elected Gouripur Municipality mayor Syed Rafiqul Islam for allegedly threatening him.

Rohingya repatriation would now depend on how the international community reacts to yesterday’s coup, experts have said.

The coup d’état staged by military in Myanmar that prevented Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected party from taking power yesterday baffled many political analysts.

Investigators were waiting for the viscera report to identify the cause of death of a female university, whose father has accused five of her fellow students of raping her.

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Rohingya repatriation will not be affected by the military coup in Myanmar, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

Myanmar’s military yesterday seized power in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids.

At least 12 people, including two students of a private university and three staffers of a media organisation, have died from allegedly consuming counterfeit alcohol in Dhaka and Bogura district over the last 48 hours.

The government has sent 50 lakh vaccine doses, purchased from Serum Institute of India, to 61 districts for the mass inoculation campaign against Covid-19 beginning on February 7.

Three months ago, a devastating fire raged through a portion of Kalyanpur slum, killing a young man and injuring several others. The investigation by fire service officials found faulty electric connections behind it.

A private university student in the capital died yesterday, a day after her father filed a rape case accusing five of her fellow students.

A man was arrested on charges of killing a 15-year-old girl after failing to rape her near the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital early yesterday.