Only the 10th and 12th graders have to attend classes in person every day while other secondary school and college students may visit their classrooms once a week when their educational institutions reopen during the pandemic.

It took the 1,000 richest people in the world less than a year to recoup their losses, but it may take at least a decade for billions of poor people to recover from the coronavirus-induced economic impacts, reveals an Oxfam report.

A senior jail superintendent and a jailer were withdrawn yesteday from Kashimpur Central Jail-1 for allowing an inmate to spend time with a woman at a prison officer’s room.

One fine morning in 2015, fisherman Mohon Jolodas woke up to the roar of dump trucks close to his home, adjacent to Kohelia river in Matarbari union of Moheshkhali.

As the government is preparing to vaccinate millions of people across the country, likely from February 8, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, many people are indecisive due to fears of possible side effects.

The government has approved rapid antibody tests for Covid-19, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

With all uncertainties over obtaining Covid vaccines removed, the main challenges for the government ahead are to run the mass inoculation campaign smoothly and involve people in the process, say experts.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has approved for the first time a locally developed RT-PCR testing kit that can detect the novel coronavirus.

Piloting of the government’s Covid-19 inoculation programme will launch on Wednesday through vaccinating a nurse at the capital’s Kurmitola General Hospital.

Bangladesh has sought effective and proactive support from the international community to find a solution to the Rohingya crisis apart from management of the huge displacement.

The ruling Awami League is likely to face a stiff test in Wednesday’s Chattogram city polls due to a division in the local party unit and presence of a good number of rebel councillor candidates.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated the handing-over of houses to some 66,189 beneficiary families all over the country via a video conferencing from the Gono Bhaban.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government would manage shelters for all marking the “Mujib Borsho” to enable them to lead a standard life.

Forty-two percent of 5,577 households covered by a nationwide survey were found below the poverty line, according to the findings of the study released yesterday.

Bangladesh’s return to international cricket after over 10 months was a smooth one as Tamim Iqbal started his long-term ODI captaincy with a series win.

The government is yet to finalise the list of healthcare professionals and volunteers to be part of the Covid-19 mass inoculation campaign, whose piloting is likely to begin later this week.

Asia Begum’s beaming face reflected her cherished dream of living in her own house, which may become a reality as the government pledged to provide land and houses to homeless and landless people to mark Mujib Borsho.

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education yesterday asked all secondary schools and colleges to complete preparations for reopening.

The government will launch the Covid-19 vaccination awareness campaign from today to prepare the general population ahead of the mass inoculation against the highly transmissible virus.

The country has got a shot in the arm for its Covid-19 inoculation campaign as 20 lakh doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, a gift from the Indian government, arrived in Dhaka yesterday.