Accessing and reading scientific articles is no easy task. A lot of us are even more acutely aware of the fact now that that many of us are reading scientific papers for the first time in an attempt to make sense of the coronavirus pandemic.

Australia is notorious for its venomous spiders, snakes and sea creatures, but researchers have now identified “scorpion-like” toxins secreted by a tree that can cause excruciating pain for weeks.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today expresses his government’s anxiety over the food situation and high prices of essential commodities. He says, “We will have to bring prices down.”

The government has relaxed the age limit for all government job seekers, except for those seeking jobs in Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS), considering the Covid-19 situation.

Opinions on how governments handled the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic varies hugely in Europe, a survey showed yesterday, with hard-hit Italians especially disillusioned with the EU.

Latin America has started to resume normal social and public life at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic still requires major control interventions, World Health Organization regional director Carissa Etienne said on Wednesday.

Rich nations representing a fraction of the global population have already bought up over half the promised Covid-19 vaccine stocks, a study showed, as US President Donald Trump pledged to begin inoculating Americans within weeks.

Due to the declining number of Covid-19 patients, the government has decided three designated hospitals in the capital would no longer treat such patients.

The US wants Bangladesh to be its key Indo-Pacific partner, considering it a development success story that also serves as a bridge for commerce and an anchor for regional stability, US officials have said.

The world is still at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, a World Health Organization special envoy on Covid-19 said as infections in India soared past five million yesterday.

A Dinajpur court has recorded testimonies of three witnesses under Section-164 in connection with a case filed over the attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer.

A Neo-JMB leader has confessed to a court that a sleeper cell of the militant group killed a man whose photograph is uploaded on the website of SITE Intelligence Group.

The verdict of much talked about Rifat Sharif murder case would be delivered on September 30.

Regional rights organisation Fortify Rights has called upon Malaysia to immediately release the final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the human trafficking and mass graves of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis discovered in Wang Kelian, Perlis in 2015.

Within weeks, another change has been made in Chattogram Range Police and this time Superintendent of Cox’s Bazar Police ABM Masud Hossain has been transferred to Rajshahi district as SP.

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on Tuesday to establish formal ties with Israel, becoming the first Arab states in a quarter century to break a longstanding taboo, in a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran.

Chief Election Commissioner Justice Mohammad Idrees announces in Dhaka today that enumeration of the voters and the preparation of voters’ lists would begin on October 1 this year and the final voters’ list would be published on January 30 next year.

Construction work of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge over the Jamuna river has finally started, more than three and a half years after the government approved the project.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman spends a busy day at Gono Bhaban today. He arrives at the Gono Bahaban at about 10:00am in the morning and stays till 8:00pm. The prime minister looks into files and also has talks with his cabinet colleagues.

Authorities experimentally operated a ferry through an alternative channel on Shimulia-Kathalbari route yesterday, a day after the service was suspended for an indefinite period due to navigability crisis.