Bangladesh Police Service Association yesterday slammed and trashed the news report, titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men”, broadcast by Qatar-based international TV channel AL Jazeera on February 2.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday withdrew its executive director Shah Alam from the responsibility of monitoring two departments for his alleged connection with scammer PK Halder.

The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said yesterday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots in a world first.

Myanmar has raised objection over The Gambia’s eligibility in filing a genocide case with the International Court of Justice -- a move that could delay justice for the Rohingya minority.

Some people are out to turn the EC into a controversial institution by making different allegations against it, Election Commissioner Kabita Khanam said yesterday.

Expressing grave concern over the air pollution level in Dhaka, the High Court yesterday issued directives to three authorities concerned to ensure spraying of water on city streets on a regular basis.

Twenty-one eminent personalities will get the country’s second highest civilian award, the Ekushey Padak, this year in recognition of their contributions to various fields.

Bangladesh recorded 13 coronavirus deaths and 485 fresh cases overnight.

Wading into a sensitive issue for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the US embassy in New Delhi yesterday urged his government to resume talks with farmers angry over agricultural reforms that sparked a months-long protest campaign.

Police yesterday arrested a man in Birampur upazila after a case had been filed under Digital Security Act in connection with posting two “distorted” images of the prime minister and the Awami League general secretary on Facebook.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked agricultural scientists to conduct further research on local fruits and agricultural items to expand the market for those.

Two men, including an assistant station master of Bangladesh Railway, were arrested between Wednesday night and yesterday morning in connection with separate rape incidents in Jashore and Rajshahi.

A Bangladeshi recently deported from France for his involvement in militant activities had plans of going to Syria to join Islamic State.

Two workers of a poultry farm in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila were killed as a locally made lift at the factory fell free from the sixth floor yesterday.

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers said on Tuesday the US Senate lacks the authority to conduct his impeachment trial now that he has left office, while the Democratic lawmakers due to serve as prosecutors called him singularly responsible for the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Police in Bogura yesterday arrested four homeopathy shop owners accused of selling toxic liquor that may have caused at least 13 deaths in the town since Saturday.

A court in Gazipur yesterday sent five youths to jail in connection with rape of an actress, while a man was sued for raping his sister-in-law in Narayanganj.

Covid-19 vaccine nationalism is harmful for all, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, and said weak cooperation between nations is a major barrier to achieving worldwide vaccination at the scale needed to end the coronavirus pandemic.

Journalists have curious minds which dig out information and if they are given the scope to publish that information, they will surely do it since there is no element of offence in it, the High Court observed yesterday.

The rate of daily positive coronavirus cases dropped to 2.92 percent yesterday, the lowest in more than nine months.