India reported the most new Covid-19 cases of any country in the past week, its nearly half a million fresh infections pushing the global tally up by 1 percent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

At a time when businesses are trying to recover from huge losses following the Covid-19 pandemic, Star Cineplex in Bashundhara City was served an eviction notice from the authorities.

An official of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has threatened Gonoshasthaya Kendra saying mobile courts would be operated against the Covid-19 lab to shut it down.

With the Bangladesh Railway and the metro rail authorities locked in a row over the extension of MRT Line-6 from Motijheel to Kamalapur in the capital, the Prime Minister’s Office is set to step in to resolve the dispute.

The High Court yesterday directed the judge of special tribunal-2 of Dhaka to conduct an inquiry into the allegation that an innocent day labourer, Md Liton, in Bhola’s Lalmohan upazila, is serving a jail sentence instead of a convicted man of the same name.

The purchase deal of a state-of-the-art radar system, long overdue for safe aircraft navigation and control of air traffic through the country’s airspace, is expected to be finalised in a couple of months.

Bangladesh Foreign Miniser Abdus Samad Azad arrives in Geneva this morning.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday pardoned more than 100 lawmakers and associates of opposition leader Juan Guaido “in the interests of promoting national reconciliation,” the government said.

Officer-in-Charge of Narayanganj Sadar Police Station Asaduzzaman and suspended sub-inspector Shamim Ala Mamun yesterday gave explanation to a court in connection to three accused confessing to raping and killing a class-V student, who was later found alive.

A Cox’s Bazar court placed three accused on a three-day remand each in one of the cases filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday assured her Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli of providing rail transit to his country.

A contractor for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project has walked out of jail on bail in two cases filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for project officials.

The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.

Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB) yesterday called upon the government to take prompt actions for ending extrajudicial killings in the country.

Australia’s parliament is set to probe alleged foreign interference at public universities, a government minister said yesterday, as concerns grow about Chinese influence.

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said BNP couldn’t deny the Ziaur Rahman’s involvement in the August 15, 1975 carnage as the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman confessed to have full support from Zia for the killing.

Progressive Democratic Party Chairman Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi died yesterday at the age of 79.

Sudanese leaders and rebel commanders yesterday agreed on a historic peace deal, a crucial first step towards ending 17 years of conflict, an AFP correspondent said.

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The BNP is observing its 42nd founding anniversary today across the country. The party has drawn up several programmes to mark the day.