The government’s recent request to British-Swedish pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, to authorise the production of its Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh,

Further details have emerged of the operations of the notorious Faridpur criminal duo and their associates and patrons which, once again, put into sharp relief the enduring connection between politics and crimes in Bangladesh.

According to a report in this daily on Thursday, the National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) on Covid-19 has recommended “partial or modified” lockdown of “high-risk” areas in Bangladesh.

It has been a year since the Covid-19 pandemic began and instead of letting up, the situation has been getting worse recently.

It is deeply disconcerting that the Indurkani Upazila Health Complex in Pirojpur, which was established in 2002, has not provided any indoor services to patients since its founding 19 years ago, despite being equipped with the necessary equipment and facilities.

People living in Dhaka, especially the office-goers, suffered immensely on Wednesday due to a lack of public transport as the government’s directive to keep half the seats in buses vacant came into effect.

THE situation in Myanmar has only gone from bad to worse since the military seized power after refusing to accept the results of the country’s national elections in February.

Whether the newer strains of the coronavirus are responsible for the recent spike in the number of infections in Bangladesh is still being debated.

In the face of exponentially higher daily coronavirus infection rates, the government on Monday issued a gazette notification containing 18 new directives aiming to combat this spike.

Even though the Hefajat-e-Islam used the visit of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their recent onslaught across the country,

The fact that the rate of new Covid-19 cases has increased by 85 percent and the deaths by 42.5 percent in the last week highlight that this deadly infectious disease is on a fast moving upward trajectory again.

In a recent brutal crackdown on unarmed, civilian protestors, on March 27—also the country’s Armed Forces Day—the Myanmar military junta killed 114 people, including many children.

We are yet again bombarded with the horrific news of 17 people dying when a bus and microbus collided, head-on, on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway on Friday afternoon. 11 people were burnt to death as the microbus involved went up in flames and kept burning for 10 minutes,

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh—the India premier’s first ever foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic has been successful in demonstrating India’s interest in deepening an already close friendship. Along with Bangladesh’s golden jubilee of independence,

A report published by The Daily Star on Thursday has brought to light the acute hardship that the family of a martyred freedom fighter is going through, who are yet to receive any official allowance from the government as they are entitled to.

We attach great importance to the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the independence of Bangladesh and the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation.

A Bangladeshi-born British scientist, Dr Khondoker Mehedi Akram, is the latest expert to reassure us that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine,

Today is a momentous day in our nation’s history as we observe the 50 years of our existence as an independent country. Fifty years ago, in the face

Almost all throughout Tuesday and even Wednesday, thousands of people in different parts of Dhaka city suffered due to a disruption in gas supply to their homes.

The stories of loss and devastation that are coming out of Balukhali after two separate fires tore through the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on Monday are heart-wrenching.