Covid-19 treatment cost was more than 12 times higher in private hospitals than that of public healthcare facilities, reveals a study conducted by the Transparency International Bangladesh.

A century-old building in Old Dhaka, known as the Neelam Ghar, will be knocked down and lost like many other historical structures of the city.

At least 13 people were injured during a rush-hour shooting at a subway station in the New York borough of Brooklyn yesterday, where authorities said “several undetonated devices” were recovered amid chaotic scenes.

A youth has been arrested in Bagerhat for “hurting religious sentiment” hours after an unruly mob destroyed his house and vandalised a nearby Hindu temple.

A probe body formed by the Ministry of Water Resources yesterday visited four haors in Sunamganj where farmers suffered crop losses due to early flash flood.

Bangladesh continues to maintain very close relations with Russia and it is  “very difficult” for the country to try to  “adjust” the relationship, even if anyone would like it to amid the current situation in Ukraine.

India hopes that Pakistan’s new prime minister will herald a diplomatic thaw between the two nuclear-armed foes after years of tensions, analysts say.

President Vladimir Putin said yesterday peace talks with Ukraine had hit a dead end, using his first public comments on the conflict in more than a week to vow that his troops would win and to goad the West for failing to bring Moscow to heel.

Gunmen have killed dozens of people after ransacking villages in central Nigeria, local sources said, in the latest violence blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs.

A renowned businessman of Patuakhali and his driver were abducted while returning to the town from Galachipa upazila around 9:00pm on Monday.

The forest department yesterday rescued a crocodile from a shrimp farm in Mongla, Bagerhat.

Locals found the body of a 42-year-old man beside a rail bridge in Kalihati, Tangail, yesterday.

Five fishing trawlers were gutted in a fire that broke out at a dockyard in Barguna’s Patharghata upazila on Sunday night.

A complaint has been filed against a college teacher in Rangpur over his alleged indecent Facebook post on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comments.

Aggrieved farmers in Rajshahi yesterday appealed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for saving them from dishonest deep tube-well operators of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA).

A Dubai bound flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was forced to reschedule on Sunday after the aircraft hit the tail of another when entering the hangar after completing regular maintenance.

Farmers of Sunamganj, Kishoreganj, Netrakona and Sylhet grow Boro on around 4 lakh hectares every year, but the government has been spending money on the vital levees that protect them on a piecemeal basis.

Video footage of a child being tied to a pole and tortured by a shopkeeper has shocked many in Chuadanga town.

Escalating global geopolitical tensions arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could spill over to Asia through sharper-than-expected increases in energy and other commodity prices, said experts yesterday.

The BNP has demanded that the Anti-Corruption Commission probe a leaked conversation allegedly between the law minister and an adviser to the prime minister over a government project.