The state of relief distribution in the country can perhaps be gauged through a detailed look at one district during two recent crises -- cyclone Amphan and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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.

Over 13,000 people have registered online for inoculation against Covid-19 as of yesterday noon, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

The government had approved the Khulna-Mongla Port Rail Line Project in December 2010 and the construction of the 64.75km rail line was supposed to be completed within three years.

Khaleda Begum had little to do other than helping her mother with household chores. The 17-year-old would spend most of her time indoors, back at the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked people to refrain from unnecessary criticism of the results of the HSC and its equivalents.

A record-setting number of students got GPA 5 in last year’s HSC, thanks to the lack of actual exams and the results being reflections of each student’s grades in public exams held before the pandemic.

The government has started sending Covid-19 vaccine doses across the country from Dhaka ahead of the mass inoculation campaign set to begin from February 7.

The government has extended the closure of all educational institutions until February 14.

The Prime Minister’s Office has given its consent to shifting the iconic Kamalapur Station Plaza further north, which would mean dismantling the structure and erecting a similar one in the new location.

Bangladesh and India yesterday agreed to hold a series of secretary-level talks and also a meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission in the run-up to the summit between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Premier Narendra Modi in Dhaka in March.

Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul was part of an organised gang and he allegedly acted like a mafia boss who extorted money from the poor and low-income Bangladeshi migrant workers in Kuwait, reported the media there.

Long wait for the results of last year’s Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations comes to an end today.

Top health official Prof Nasima Sultana, who was inoculated on Wednesday, said she was feeling very well and had been working as usual at office and home.

The High Court yesterday observed that some mistakes by the Anti Corruption Commission has made the entire institution questionable.

Bangladesh has been ranked 146th having scored only 26 out of 100 in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. It failed to improve both in terms of ranking and score from the previous year.

Defeated BNP mayoral candidate Shahadat Hossain didn’t get any vote in at least seven polling centres and bagged single-digit votes at 80 centres in the Chattogram City Corporation Polls, said a top official at the Returning Office in the port city.

Every government is hungry for praise and ours is no exception. Media becomes a government’s favourite when it does nothing but praise. That, however, does not serve society or its people.

A Kuwaiti court yesterday sentenced Bangladeshi lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul and four others to four years in jail in a bribery case.