At least 20 people were injured in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba yesterday as two groups of ruling Awami League activists clashed in a programme where Law Minister Anisul Huq was present.

Former US president Donald Trump will be allowed back on YouTube but only when the threat of his inciting violence abates, the head of the popular online video sharing platform said Thursday.

Police arrested three members of the banned militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) including its operations branch head during a raid at Sayedabad in the capital.

A foreman died on the spot after a chunk of iron sheets fell on him at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

A total of 635 new covid-19 cases were reported in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, indicating the rising trend of Covid-19 patients in the country.

Confidence in Covid-19 vaccines is growing, with people’s willingness to have the shots increasing as they are rolled out across the world and concerns about possible side effects are fading, a 14-country survey showed yesterday.

The National Board of Revenue yesterday honoured Kaus Mia as the best taxpayer of Mujib Borsho for his exemplary commitment to depositing the right amount of tax to the public coffers.

Yahya Khan’s speech was broadcast on Radio Pakistan on March 6, 1971. It was provocative and offensive.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seems to be positive about taking Covid-19 shots, but she is yet to give consent to it, says her personal physician.

Alongside Bangabandhu Memorial in Tungipara, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Orakandi, a sacred shrine of the “Matua” community in Gopalganj, and “Satipith” in Shikarpur, Barishal, during his upcoming Bangladesh visit.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the existing problems between neighbouring countries need to be resolved through discussions.

The High Court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to submit within two and a half months the charge sheets in the 21 cases filed over BASIC Bank loan scam.

The United Nations human rights chief yesterday called on Myanmar’s security forces to halt their “vicious crackdown on peaceful protesters” and urged the military to release people unlawfully detained since the February 1 coup.

Five people, including Chattogram Central Jail’s superintendent, were sued yesterday for torturing a prisoner with electric shocks and drug injections.

General Yaqub, who had taken charge of East Pakistan from Governor Ahsan on March 1, 1971, sent his resignation by telegram on the morning of March 5, 1971.

The number of Covid-19 vaccine recipients continued rising for the second consecutive day as another 1,21,010 people were vaccinated all over the country yesterday.

Sixty-six writers of Bangladesh have issued a statement demanding justice for writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who died in jail custody, and the abolition of the Digital Security Act (DSA).

Putting Mushtaq Ahmed behind bars for his writing and letting his death happen in prison were terrible injustices, Prof Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said yesterday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 18 rocket shells during a drive at Satchhari forest in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj.

Saudi Arabia’s health ministry has ruled that only people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 will be allowed to attend the hajj this year, Saudi newspaper Okaz reported on Monday.