It is time to start solving the mystery of Long Covid, an aspect of the pandemic blighting millions of lives, the World Health Organization’s leader on post-Covid conditions told AFP.

The World Bank has agreed to finance rural communication development so that people can effectively avail the benefits of the Padma Bridge, although it had earlier withdrawn its loan for the bridge construction over allegations of graft.

A Dinajpur court yesterday sent three men, accused of gang-raping a 10th-grader in a case filed by her father, to jail in the district’s Ghoraghat upazila.

Ten more people died of novel coronavirus and 443 new cases were reported in Bangladesh in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

Sand lifters beat up a journalist and tied him to a tree when he went to collect information on a story of sand and stone lifting by destroying the banks of the Jadukata in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila yesterday.

A government-formed committee has proposed fixing a bus fare of Tk 2.2 per kilometre on the Ghatarchar-Kanchpur Bridge route, where a single company will operate all the buses on a pilot basis from April 1.

The government has allocated four lakh shots of Covid-19 vaccine for Dhaka district, Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general of the health directorate, said yesterday.

Many Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar think the coup in Myanmar will have little impact on their fate.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday unveiled the covers of two books on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Libyan delegates yesterday gathered in Geneva to choose new temporary leaders for the war-scarred country, with the UN stressing the importance of respecting their commitment to hold elections next December.

Captain Tom Moore, 100, who won British hearts with a Covid-19 fund raising drive, was hospitalised on Sunday with the virus, his family said.

Gold ornaments, weighing around 30 grams, have been stolen from the idol of goddess Kali at Sri Sri Ugra Tara temple and Shaktipith in Shikarpur village of Barishal’s Ujirpur upazila.

At least five people were killed and two others injured in a road accident on the Sherpur-Nalitabari road at Sherpur Sadar upazila’s Bajitkhila union yesterday morning.

Police detained more than 3,000 people and broke up rallies in Moscow and across Russia yesterday as supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny braved the bitter cold and a massive show of police force to demand he be set free.

Two men were arrested yesterday on charges of raping a third grader and a 12-year-old girl in Narayanganj and Moulvibazar.

The health authorities in Bangladesh recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths and 369 new cases in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

Cold wave continues to sweep through the country’s northern region with the low-income people passing their days in hardship.

WHO experts yesterday visited the market in central China linked to the first known Covid-19 cluster, seeking clues about the beginning of the pandemic as a number of nations further tightened restrictions to stop the coronavirus.

Almost a dozen lawmakers are involved in money laundering, human trafficking, and property grabbing, and other forms of corruption, BNP MP Gulam Mohammad Siraj told parliament yesterday.

A front-line Swedish nurse is getting some Covid downtime with a week of private screenings of the Gothenburg film festival, in a former lighthouse off the country’s west coast.