The tenth day of the ongoing “strict lockdown” witnessed less traffic and gathering on the capital’s streets, as it was a weekly holiday yesterday.

A tragedy unfolded last Thursday at the five-storey Hashem Foods Ltd. factory in Rupganj. The fire that has thus far claimed 52 innocent victims, most of them (pending the difficult postmortem) aged between 12-15 years, is a chronic tale of corporate greed.

India’s fuel demand recovered last month after slumping to a nine-month low in May, as restrictions to curb the spread of the pandemic were eased and mobility picked up. 

To live off the streets of Dhaka is not merely living in hunger, it also comes with an immense lack of security. For the “tokai” -- a child waste picker -- living in the capital, hunger and malnutrition is almost the least of their concern, with much bigger dangers lurking around all the time.

A doctor died with coronavirus at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Tangail General Hospital on Friday night.

The government has decided to take over a 300-year-old building located on Nazu Miah Lane at port city’s Patharghata for preservation due to its archaeological importance.

With the extended lockdown causing enormous financial hardship to daily wage earners and lower income population, the government and affiliated bodies escalated food drive for them all across the country.

US President Joe Biden nominated Peter D Haas as the new US ambassador to Bangladesh.

Northrop Grumman Corp won a Nasa contract worth $935 million to develop living quarters for the US space agency’s planned outpost in lunar orbit, the weapons maker said on Friday. 

More than six months after the deadly US Capitol insurrection, authorities on Friday began the process of dismantling fencing and barricades surrounding the iconic Washington building, although some access restrictions will remain in place. 

Russia on Saturday reported 752 coronavirus-related deaths, the most confirmed in a single day since the pandemic began, pushing the national death toll to 142,253.

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, nearly four years after white supremacist protests over plans to remove it led to clashes in which a woman was run down by a car and killed.

Deaths with Covid-like symptoms have increased by more than three-fold in the past two weeks, till Tuesday, said the Center for Genocide Studies (CGS) at the University of Dhaka.

Police today foiled a human chain formed by Ganasamhati Andolon in Narayanganj city, demanding justice for the 51 victims, who died in the fire at a food factory building in Narayanganj's Rupganj.

Manikganj district administration today provided food assistance to 13 members of a circus party, who lost jobs due to the ongoing strict lockdown enforced to tackle the spread of Covid-19.

Nations across the globe hit new pandemic highs and reimposed Covid-19 restrictions on Saturday as the highly contagious Delta variant forced governments to put the brakes on plans to return to normality.

Ashleigh Barty won her first Wimbledon title on the 50th anniversary of fellow indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley's maiden crown, beating Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3 on Saturday.

Workers injured in the fire at Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj have been given financial assistance for treatment by the Bangladesh Workers ‘Welfare Foundation Fund under the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

Bangladesh will look to take seven more wickets while Zimbabwe will target another 337 runs on the final day of the Harare Test tomorrow.

Bangladesh will look to take seven more wickets while Zimbabwe will target another 337 runs on the final day of the Harare Test tomorrow.