The government is planning to resume full-fledged classes at schools and colleges as 84 percent secondary students have already received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine and the daily positivity rate is on its way down.

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) elected two new faces for the topmost party posts yesterday.

Bangladesh Shipping Corporation showed sheer negligence by allowing Banglar Samriddhi to sail to a war zone in Ukraine, claimed leaders of Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers’ Association yesterday.

Bangladesh needs to end the easy policy measures it ushered in to soften the blow of the global coronavirus pandemic, closely monitoring the bank asset quality and inflation, and stand ready to normalise its monetary policy, said the International Monetary Fund.

A man was sent to jail yesterday on charge of raping a girl who has disabilities in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, said police.

A Khulna court on Thursday sent a lecturer of Khulna University in a case filed over torturing his wife for dowry.

France has lifted restrictions on Bangladesh and decided to consider it a “Green” listed country with regards to Covid-19.

A Swechchhasebak League leader on Thursday landed in jail on charge of snatching money.

A Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) man allegedly died by shooting himself with his service weapon at a camp in Sapahar border in Naogaon early yesterday.

Officials reported 657 new cases of Covid and five deaths from the disease as the positivity rate dipped below three percent in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday

Villagers beat two burglary suspects to death and seriously injured another in the Banparil area of the district early yesterday.

Australia’s emergency services yesterday ordered 200,000 people to flee from the path of a wild storm that has killed 13 people in a week of record-setting east coast floods, but the city of Sydney escaped the worst of the deluge.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police has arrested a close associate of former independent lawmaker Kazi Papul, who was sentenced to seven years in jail in a human trafficking case by a Kuwait court last year.

Musheq Alam Saikat, son of State Minister for Planning Shamsul Alam, had physically abused and attempted to murder his ex-wife Tasnova Iqbal, according to a police investigation report.

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) refers to certain symptoms many women go through every month ahead of their menstrual periods.

A seal wearing a helmet with an antenna might look unusual, but eight Weddell seals, each with a 580g monitoring device on their heads, have been helping Japanese researchers survey the waters under the thick ice sheet in Antarctica.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought support of two US lawmakers to have the sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion and seven of its current and former officials lifted on a priority basis.

Myanmar-based narcotics smugglers are supplying the synthetic drug “ice” to Bangladesh by taking only 20 or 30 percent of the payment in advance in cash or hundi, according to the Rapid Action Battalion.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians Tuesday in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

At least 55 BNP leaders and activists were injured as police baton-charged a procession in Savar and ruling party men attacked another BNP procession in Patuakhali yesterday.