Akash Iqbal and his wife Maya Hazarika were young millennials who were working hard to build a life in the city, but a bus ran over them and their dreams yesterday.

In 2017, the government took up a four-and-a-half-year project, worth over Tk 3,900 crore, to construct bridges in rural areas for boosting agricultural and non-agricultural productions as well as sending the produce to the market easily.

Bogura district Swechchasebak League President Sajedur Rahman Shaheen has said voters who would not cast their ballots for the Awami league mayoral candidate in the Gabtali municipality polls need not go to polling centres.

The world is on the “brink of a catastrophic moral failure” if rich countries hog Covid-19 vaccine doses while the poorest suffer, the head of the WHO said yesterday.

Bangladesh will receive 20 lakh doses of Covishield as a gift from india tomorrow, said a high official with knowledge of the development.

The Clinical Research Organization has asked for permission to launch a clinical trial of Covid-19 vaccine Bangavax, developed by Globe Biotech Ltd of Bangladesh.

The ruling Awami League candidates clinched sweeping victories in the second phase of the municipality elections.

The country could receive as much as $30 billion in remittance annually if proactive steps are taken by the government and other stakeholders, including the banking sector, speakers said at a dialogue yesterday.

Bangladesh is seeing a sharp decline in the number of new Covid-19 cases over the past week.

A Sylhet court yesterday framed charges against all eight accused of a case filed over the gang rape of a woman at Murari Chand (MC) College hostel on September 25 last year.

Officials are likely to inoculate Dhaka city residents against Covid-19 at around 330 points in at least 50 hospitals.

With small businesses still struggling to recover from the pandemic-induced economic slowdown, the government has rolled out two fresh stimulus packages involving Tk 2,700 crore to boost the cottage industry and SMEs and expand the social security scheme for the elderly and widows in poverty-stricken areas.

Temperatures have plummeted way below zero in Bosnia, making life even more miserable for hundreds of migrants and refugees — including entire families with small children — sleeping rough while trying to reach Western Europe.

Yesterday’s municipal polls were marred by the killing of a councillor-elect and stray incidents of violence, irregularities and violation of electoral code.

Bangladesh Railway recently carried out a feasibility study to build a circular rail network in Dhaka -- a mega project that is expected to ease traffic congestion on city roads.

India kicked off one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccination drives yesterday as the pandemic spread at a record pace and global Covid-19 deaths surged past two million.

The ongoing closure of all educational institutions for coronavirus pandemic have been extended again till January 30.

At first glance, it looked like piles of trash jumbled together.

Elections to 60 municipalities will take place today amid fears of further violence in many places.

Two Bangladeshis wanted by Interpol on human trafficking charges were arrested by law enforcers in Bangladesh and Italy on Thursday, said investigators.