A massive surge of over 63,000 new coronavirus infections since Saturday has taken India’s tally past 25.89 lakh cases, the Indian Health Ministry said yesterday, adding that more than 900 Covid-linked deaths were recorded in the period.

The health directorate yesterday reported 2,024 Covid-19 new cases and 32 deaths from the highly transmissible virus as the number of tests decreased again.

Around 105 Bangladeshi migrants, who faced exploitation in Vietnam, are finally flying home tomorrow in a chartered flight arranged by the Bangladesh government.

Health department officials have shut down at least 58 private clinics and diagnostic centres in different upazilas of Patuakhali on various charges, including operating without registration, non-renewal of registration and not having related facilities.

There is a common public perception that processes for government works are slow but they speed up when vested interests are involved. A recent enquiry by the Anti-Corruption Commission shows why it is so.

A woman was shot dead and her 10-year-old son injured after unidentified criminals opened fire in Khagrachhari’s Dighinala upazila early yesterday.

Malaysian Immigration Department has reportedly busted a “document forgery” ring and nabbed four of its members, including three Bangladeshi men.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will stay in Switzerland until complete recovery of his health as the guest of the Swiss government.

Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for Covid-19, the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying yesterday, hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing.

Police arrested five people, including Abdullah Al Masud, superintendent of the Jashore juvenile correction centre, on Friday night in connection with the incident of torturing three boys of the centre to death.

The upazila nirbahi officer of Ramgarh upazila in Khagrachhari allegedly misused his power to lease five acres of khas land illegally for a personal project.

Philippine security forces were on alert yesterday for possible reprisal attacks after arresting a key leader of an Islamic State-linked militant group accused of kidnapping and beheading several foreigners.

Migrant arrivals to Italy increased by nearly 150 percent over the past year, with the majority of those arriving from Tunisia, Italy’s interior ministry said yesterday.

The US Postal Service has sent letters to most states warning that millions of ballots cast by mail for November’s presidential election may not arrive in time to be counted, US media reports said.

A teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped by a group of miscreants on Thursday in Dinajpur, while police on Friday arrested a youth allegedly for raping a pregnant woman.

British holidaymakers returning home from parts of Europe began having to quarantine under new restrictions yesterday, as a second wave of virus infections threatened more disruption and economic chaos on the continent.

Police yesterday arrested a youth for his alleged involvement in the gang-rape of two female students in Pirojpur’s Mathbaria upazila.

As bizarre as it may sound, a Covid positive nurse has been discharging duties at the children ward of Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital for about a week allegedly due to the pressure from the hospital authorities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged people not to fear catching the novel coronavirus from food, after Chinese testers found traces on food and food packaging.

The officer-in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station, whose video clip of taking bribes to record a false case went viral, was withdrawn on Thursday afternoon.