In order to solve the capital’s perennial waterlogging problem which Dhaka Wasa has failed to do, its managing director yesterday said the two city corporations should now focus on protecting natural reservoirs and not just rely on the artificial drainage systems.

The prestigious weekly Time Magazine predicts that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will sweep the first general elections of Bangladesh scheduled for March 7, 1973. It writes,

Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s absence from public view in the past two months, including missing the final episode of a TV show on which he was to appear as a judge, has fueled social media speculation over his whereabouts amid a Chinese regulatory clampdown on his sprawling business empire.

An out-of-control bushfire threatened lives and homes in Australia’s west coast city of Perth yesterday, with locals told to shelter in place from toxic fumes.

A Madaripur court yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing a seven-year-old girl after rape on November 27, 2012.

The health directorate reported that 910 people were infected with the novel coronavirus in the 24 hours ending 8:00am yesterday.

Relatives of apprentice lawyer Rejaul Karim Reja, who died in a prison cell of a Barishal hospital, yesterday alleged that Kotwali police did not record a murder case against three members of Detective Brach of police.

A French-Irish teenager with learning difficulties died by “misadventure” after disappearing in the Malaysian jungle on a family holiday and no one else was involved, a coroner ruled yesterday.

An Algerian supporter of the Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for satirical social media posts mocking the government and religion, a campaign group said.

A 30-year-old student of law died in custody four days after he was arrested by the Detective Branch of police in Barisal.

Nigerian authorities have arrested five activists who were organising a an anti-government protest, severely beating the most prominent of them Omoyele Sowore, his lawyer said Saturday.

The living conditions of hundreds of homeless migrants in Bosnia, bordering the European Union, are “completely unacceptable”, EU envoy Johann Sattler said Saturday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked police personnel to stop cybercrimes alongside money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism, militancy, abuse of drugs, gangster culture and repression on women and children.

Twenty-seven people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Countries across the world tightened restrictions on their populations yesterday to fight a resurgence in the coronavirus, as the European Union offered to help drug companies expand vaccine production to improve distribution “bottlenecks”.

A member of the probe committee, formed by the forest department following a recent report of The Daily Star, has said the BGB on security grounds didn’t let them enter the Sangu reserve forest, hampering their efforts to assess the level of destruction there.

It will take around a month to clear the backlog of some 10,500 Saudi Arabia-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers who were stuck in the country due to the Gulf nation’s two-week suspension of all international flights.

Four depositors of People’s Leasing and Financial Service (PLFS), a non-banking financial institution, yesterday described their plights and sufferings before the High Court for not getting back their money from PLFS.

A local Awami League leader widely criticised for misappropriating rice meant for poor people has won an award for making “special contributions to social service”.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today rejects the opposition’s suggestion of an all-party government before the polls to ensure free and fair elections. He refuses to grant the status of a “political party” to the opponents of the present government.