Facebook on Monday said it is ramping up efforts to stem the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, spread facts, and figure out who might be wary of getting the jab.

Haitian opposition parties named a top judge as interim leader overnight Sunday, the latest attempt to oust President Jovenel Moise, whose term they say has expired.

A man was killed and several others were injured yesterday in clashes between supporters of two mayoral candidates in the upcoming polls in Tangail’s Gopalpur municipality.

Bangladesh reported 16 new Covid-19 deaths yesterday, taking the national death tally to 8,221.

Myanmar’s army chief yesterday said Rohingya refugees who escaped to Bangladesh during a 2017 crisis will be repatriated to Rakhine state.

Two Rohingya “drug dealers” were killed in a “gunfight” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh in Bandarban’s Ghumdhum border area early yesterday, says BGB.

Britain has downgraded its terrorism threat level from “severe” to “substantial”, interior minister Priti Patel announced yesterday.

A Gazipur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of raping a garment worker, while another man was sent to prison in Dinajpur for sexually harassing a minor.

Five months have passed since the delivery of the verdict in the case filed over the murder of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny in police custody, but two convicts are still eluding arrest.

The High Court granted bail to Akib Hridoy, a local journalist in Kishoreganj, for six months yesterday, 42 days after he was arrested under the controversial Digital Security Act.

The Junta leader yesterday said Myanmar’s foreign policy would remain unchanged and countries would be encouraged to invest, as thousands of people took to the streets for a third day to protest against the coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government.

Western governments rushed to offer support for the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccination after South Africa halted its roll-out when research showed it offered minimal protection against mild infection from a variant spreading there.

The husband of the woman gang-raped at a college in Sylhet last year was arrested on Saturday just so that he testified in the court the next day.

A German veterinary clinic has trained sniffer dogs to detect the novel coronavirus in human saliva samples with 94% accuracy.

He was facing at least 27 cases, including 10 for murder, when he fled to India to evade arrest. But he was held in 2008 by the Indian authorities and sentenced to 10 years in prison for passport forgery and intrusion.

A brick kiln is being operated in a residential area and adjacent to a primary school, posing serious health hazards to students and people in Jalalia under Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar.

The cabinet yesterday approved a proposal to stop the production of “Ketoprofen” drug in the country in an effort to save the critically endangered vultures.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to ban the broadcast of Al Jazeera, a Qatar based news cannel, in Bangladesh.

Somalia’s opposition leaders have announced that they no longer recognise President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, after his term expired without a political agreement on a path toward elections to replace him.

Admission test for the MBBS course at public and private medical colleges will be held on April 2.