People crowd cattle markets across the country as they get only a handful of days before Eid and the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus.

People in their thousands continued to leave the capital yesterday for Eid-ul-Azha holidays and those heading to the northern, north-western and southern districts suffered immensely on highways and near ferry terminals due to congestion.

The government’s condition of maintaining health guidelines for allowing cattle markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

Repeated increase in the costs of different government projects, in line with the extension of the deadline for the projects’ implementation, has become a common practice nowadays.

For Atoar Rahman, life has played out like a tragic movie since the Covid-19 pandemic brought the country’s already-struggling film industry to a grinding halt more than a year ago.

A Dhaka court on Thursday issued a travel ban on evaly.com.bd Chairman Shamima Nasrin and Managing Director Mohammad Russel as part of an investigation into the allegation that they embezzled around Tk 338.62 crore.

While the state minister for public administration warned that the upcoming lockdown after Eid will be stricter than the last, the government is yet to decide whether export-oriented factories will be operational or not during that time.

Biman is getting an unusually high number of ticket cancellations and the national flag carriers claims it was due to pilots’ threat of not operating additional flights.

All the members of the Bangladesh mission interviewed by the Swiss representative Dr Bonard in Calcutta today refused to be repatriated to Pakistan and reaffirmed their allegiance to the Bangladesh government.

Bangladesh has sought Russia’s “active and fruitful cooperation” for facilitating the reintegration and return of the Rohingyas to their homeland.

Prof Shamsul Alam, a member of the planning commission’s General Economy Division (senior secretary), is set to be sworn in as state minister for planning at the Bangabhaban today.

A man was killed by one of his neighbours centring a feud allegedly over the ownership of a disputed land at Botla village in Madaripur’s Kalkini upazila yesterday.

Palmer, an US variety of mango, is going to be grown in the country commercially as its experimental production has been completed successfully in Chapainawabganj, the mango capital of the country.

A Bangladesh Biman flight left the Beijing International Airport for Dhaka today with 10 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines bought from the Chinese state-owned enterprise Sinopharm.

Twenty-eight pythons, artificially hatched out of 31 eggs in Chattogram Zoo on June 22, were released in the Sitakunda Eco-park after they were nurtured in the zoo for almost a month.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines incurred large numbers of ticket cancellations on various routes, mainly to the Middle Eastern destinations, since Biman pilots decided to refrain from operating extra flights unless authorities address salary disparity between them and other Biman employees by July 30.

Sumon Hossen, a student of Dhaka University, died of Covid-19 in his village home in Jhenaidah yesterday. He was a student of the Anthropology Department of Dhaka University.

Oxygen crisis at the privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital led to the death of a Covid-19 patient early Friday.

International Crimes Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Asad Ahmad Khan has shown his interest to visit Bangladesh.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has urged Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to open his country’s mission in Bangladesh and usher Dhaka-Tashkent bilateral and interregional relations to a new height.