Revelations that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal mobile number has been circulating online for 15 years raised national security concerns yesterday, amid a raft of probes into his conduct.

The World Health Organization issued a stark warning to nations yesterday, saying that relaxing Covid measures too early could spark a “perfect storm” allowing cases to spiral -- as seen in India.

Three Bangladeshi researchers have been included in the sixth edition of Asian Scientist 100 list.

Two crew members of an oil tanker were killed after a fire broke out in the engine room yesterday morning.

Mamata Banerjee is set to retain power in West Bengal with her Trinamool Congress winning 156 of the state’s 294 seats, predicted NDTV’s poll of exit polls as the marathon eight-phase state assembly elections ended yesterday.

Transport owners yesterday urged the government to allow them to resume operations of public transport from today considering the plight of thousands of people involved in the sector.

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the United Hospital to pay Tk 25 lakh each in initial payment to the families of the four patients killed in a fire at its Covid-19 isolation unit on May 27 last year.

Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt’s Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.

About four million people in south-central Bangladesh, ravaged by a cyclone and tidal wave in November 1970, were facing starvation because the war had halted emergency food distribution, reported the Washington Post.

Bangladeshi workers in the readymade garments sector suffered a 35 percent pay cut during the lockdown period amid the coronavirus pandemic last year, which had adverse impacts on their rights to food, health, housing, and even life, says a new study.

Mufti Harun Izhar, education and cultural affairs secretary of the now-dissolved central committee of Hefazat-e-Islam, has been arrested over the violence during the Indian prime minister’s visit last month.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed on the importance of five actions to fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as it is crucial for preventing future pandemics.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, needs to stay at the hospital for two more days as all her medical tests are yet to be completed.

A delegation headed by Labour MP John Stonehouse and top officials of War on Want, Christian Aid and Oxfam, called on Sir Alec Douglas Home, British foreign secretary, and told him that Britain should do something so that international relief work could be started in Bangladesh.

The government started procurement of paddy directly from farmers at Tk 27 per kg from yesterday.

Considering the global situation and following the advice of public health experts, the government has made quarantine mandatory for all passengers from abroad.

Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Md Salim, walked out of jail yesterday after around six months.

American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969, died yesterday after battling cancer, his family said.

Two garment workers were raped while they were trying to get back to Dhaka from their village home in Sunamganj’s Jamalganj upazila on Monday.

The EU is looking to plug a big gap in migration policy by boosting measures to have irregular migrants voluntarily returned to their countries under a strategy adopted on Tuesday.