Timely renewal of passports has suddenly become like winning the lottery for Bangladeshi migrants in Oman.

Maulana Bhashani, leader of the National Awami Party (Bhashani), had written personal letters to Chairman Mao and the Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Chou en-Lai, expressing surprise at Peking’s support to the Pakistani military junta.

A High Court bench yesterday refused to pass any order regarding an altercation between a doctor, a magistrate and a police officer over the possession of a movement pass, the video footage of which went viral on social media yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government is extending all sorts of support to the farmers to help them grow more food in view of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic alongside the measures to make sure that they will have food in their homes.

As the “lockdown” was extended for seven more days from April 22 to 28, labourers living from hand to mouth feared the distresses that lay ahead.

Two more cases have been filed against former Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur for “hurting religious sentiments” of Awami League activists and supporters and defaming the party.

Expressing concern over the recent arrest of religious leaders and alem-ulema in “false” cases, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday demanded their immediate release.

A senior leader of the ruling Awami League in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila was critically wounded at a shooting incident by criminals yesterday.

Five rockets targeted an Iraqi airbase hosting US soldiers Sunday, wounding two foreign contractors and three Iraqi soldiers, in the latest attack coinciding with tensions between Baghdad’s allies Tehran and Washington.

The hard-hit United States passed a hopeful milestone of giving at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose to half its adults, as India locked down its capital New Delhi for a week from last night to try and control a raging outbreak.

Ruhul Amin was released from jail after a court yesterday granted him bail in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act.

At least seven policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Mollahat Police Station, were injured as activists of Hefajat-e-Islam, a Qawmi madrasa-based organisation, attacked them yesterday.

The ongoing lockdown could be relaxed for homebound people during the upcoming Eid, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Renowned actor Wasim passed away in a city hospital early yesterday.

A young man in Khagrachhari landed in jail yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over his Facebook comments.

The Bangladesh cabinet met today and issued instructions to Col MAG Osmani for preparing a strategy to oust the occupation army from certain important strongholds.

Migrant worker Nazim Uddin returned home from Saudi Arabia in May last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic. His residence permit expired after a few months, meaning he could not return to the Gulf country.

In the five days after the movement pass was introduced by police to ensure a “strict lockdown”, going to workplaces has been the most common reason for people availing the passes.

Former Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur has been accused in a case of hurting religious sentiments of Awami League activists and supporters and defaming the party with his derogatory comments in a Facebook live session on April 14.

Faced with a shortage of oxygen supply to treat an unprecedented rise in critical Covid-19 patients across India, its government last night decided to ban the supply of oxygen for industrial purposes from April 22 till further order.