An Indian virologist has warned the third wave of Covid-19 is expected to affect children in the country in a big way between October and November and both the Central and state governments should be ready to handle the situation.

Mowlana Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, was one of the financers of Chattogram mayhem, said police.

The government approved a proposal to extend the deadline for the much-talked-about Padma bridge project to June 23, 2022.

Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and six others were wounded along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border yesterday in an ambush by militants from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s military said, as the soldiers were doing controversial border fencing work.

The country’s apex trade body FBCCI has constructed a multi-storey building in Old Dhaka’s Hatkhola without an approved design and that’s why it could not use the high-rise for a long time.

Doctors Without Borders yesterday described “alarming” malnutrition in parts of Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region and said the situation was likely to worsen with the coming rainy season.

US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday island nations faced a situation “beyond existential” due to climate change, as he called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and coal plant financing.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted a charge sheet against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed over the custodial death of Rayhan Ahmed.

Police yesterday arrested a man for raping a minor girl in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur.

One hundred and sixty Bangladeshi migrant workers, including a woman, returned home yesterday from war-torn Libya under a repatriation programme arranged by the Bangladesh mission there.

Forest fires are still burning in Sarankhola Range of the Sundarbans.

Admission tests of public universities would be delayed due to the country’s coronavirus situation.

A heavy fight broke out today at Teliapara, Sylhet. Pakistani Army in the guise of Indian BSF breached the defences of Bangladesh force and were in firing position.

Detectives took around eight years just to analyse footage and collect evidence of the mayhem Hefajat carried in 2013 as it was a “big incident”, said AKM Hafiz Akter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Hefajat-e-Islam last night demanded release of “Ulema and religious-minded general people” who were arrested over violence by the Islamist organisation in March during demonstrations protesting Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh.

A Bangladeshi was shot dead allegedly by a group of villagers inside Indian territory near Kendribil in Sylhet’s Jaintapur upazila yesterday morning.

India’s coronavirus caseload topped 20 million yesterday as the pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the country’s hospitals and the opposition leader said a nationwide lockdown was now the only way out.

After 30 hours of frantic efforts, the fire at the Sundarban’s (East Forest Range) Sharankhola Range was extinguished around 5:00pm yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed S Alam Group, one of the owners of SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, to immediately give Tk 5 lakh to each of the families of the seven victims who were killed after police opened fire during a demonstration by workers on April 17.

A man was shot dead by unidentified criminals in broad daylight in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila yesterday.