After the Jamuna river eroded the banks on which his ancestral home stood in Shahzadpur upazila’s Koizuri village a few years ago, Md Shawkat Ali shifted his residence further inland into Koizuri union.

The Hajj and Umrah Management Bill 2021 was passed in parliament yesterday aiming to ensure the smooth performing of hajj and umrah and remove irregularities and mismanagement in the sector.

Bangladesh suffered a 3-0 defeat against Oman in the last game of the second round of Joint Qualifiers for the World Cup and Asian Cup in Doha last night.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has issued emergency use authorisation (EUA) to Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine “Janssen” in the country.

China said yesterday radiation levels remained normal at one of its nuclear power plants and there were no safety concerns, after the station’s French operator reported a gas build-up.

The UN improperly collected and shared data from more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, passing it on to Myanmar, the country they fled, Human Rights Watch said yesterday, urging an investigation.

Detectives yesterday arrested a former leader of Hefajat-e-Islam from the capital’s Jatrabari area over the Islamist outfit’s countrywide mayhem in March.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the people, including the leaders and workers of Awami League and its associated bodies, to plant at least three saplings to make Bangladesh a much greener country.

Around 150 migrants yesterday tried to cross into Spain’s Melilla enclave from neighbouring Morocco in an attempt which was thwarted but left nine police slightly injured, officials said.

Bangladesh would host the first ever virtual V20 Climate Vulnerables Finance Summit on July 8.

Police in Kishoreganj are looking for a 20-year-old man accused of raping a ninth grader in Kuliarchar upazila three days ago.

A karbari (village chief) was shot dead in front of his family in a remote village of Jurachhari upazila of Rangamati Sunday night.

Police Assistant Sub-Inspector Shoumen Kumar Roy, accused of triple murder, yesterday confessed in a local court to committing the crime.

Expressing concern over BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition, the party said her kidney and liver is not functioning well; that’s why she is suffering from fever repeatedly.

Veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday handed over power in Israel to new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett but remained defiant as the patchwork government faced tensions with Palestinians over a planned Jewish nationalist march.

A recruiting agencies’ platform yesterday demanded that the government immediately arrange Covid-19 vaccines for migrant workers to ensure their smooth migration and save money spent on hotel quarantine.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said in parliament today that the possibility of a political settlement in East Pakistan was “becoming more remote” every day.

A probe by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has found seven former officials of Pallabi Police Station responsible for wrongly arresting Md Arman, a technician from Mirpur’s Benarasi Palli, in 2016.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday said instead of terming its report on the government’s Covid-19 response “false and motivated”, the government could better combat the pandemic by taking the measures recommended in the report.

Novavax Inc yesterday reported late-stage data from its US-based clinical trial showing its vaccine is more than 90% effective against Covid-19 across a variety of variants of the virus.