Thirteen patients died while being treated at the Covid units of three Khulna hospitals in the last 24 hours till 8am today.

Another man, who sustained severe burn injuries in Sunday’s explosion at Dhaka's Moghbazar, died at hospital early this morning, raising the death toll to nine.

The parliament yesterday passed the next fiscal year’s tax measures that met critics and advocates of the provision to whiten black money in the middle.

When Khadiza Khatun took her Covid-infected grandmother to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday night, she never imagined that she was going to experience such a shock.

People from the low-income groups in urban areas are struggling to have three meals a day, consume quality food and maintain their daily protein intake due to the crisis induced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two and a half million shots of the Moderna vaccine for coronavirus will arrive in the country on July 2 or 3, paving the way for resuming the mass inoculation campaign after over two months.

The number of Covid-19 deaths continued to rise as the health directorate reported 112 deaths in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday -- the second highest daily toll recorded in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the problems over securing Covid vaccines have been resolved and her government will carry out a massive vaccination campaign across the country once more jabs arrive next month.

A fire on Sunday burnt the residential camps of around 300 Bangladeshi migrants in Greece, forcing them to take shelter in others’ camps.

A mobile court on Monday fined a person Tk 50,000 for violating the government’s health safety guidelines by carrying a bride in a helicopter in Shariapur.

Militants are not capable of carrying out any major subversive attack in the country at this moment, Rab Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun has said.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in the bordering area of Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday said law profession has now become a business.

The procession to Baduria’s cremation landing with the bodies of refugees from Bangladesh was endless, reported Washington Star.

Two days after an explosion in a building in the capital’s Moghbazar, another body was recovered from the debris yesterday, raising the death toll to eight.

Anyone who goes outdoors without an urgent cause will face severe punishment during the seven-day lockdown starting tomorrow.

Strict disciplinary action will be taken against those leaving their houses except for emergency purposes during the lockdown from 6:00am of July 1 to curb the spread of Covid-19 infection, said a government press release today.

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) today recommended the escrow services should only be applied for the high-risk e-commerce merchants, not for the regular online platforms.

Police today submitted a charge sheet accusing 44 people including KM Zakir Hossain, mayor of Banpara municipality in Natore, in the case filed for the murder of Baraigram upazila chairman Sanaullah Noor Babu.

The country’s foreign exchange reserve has hit a new record of $46 billion due to the upward trend of remittance and lower import payments.