Most of the streets and intersections in the cities outside the capital were largely empty on the first day of the seven-day "strict lockdown" yesterday, but the alleys remained crowded with people.

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Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday urged students to prepare their national ID cards immediately, if they do not have one, to get Covid-19 vaccine.

Bangladesh has appointed Md Delwar Hossain, director general of Myanmar wing at the foreign ministry, as the next ambassador to South Korea.

Switzerland has committed an additional 9.8 million Swiss Francs (Tk 90 crore) to scale up its support for an effective community-based response as Covid-19 cases are again on the rise in Bangladesh.

BNP yesterday said there is no reason for its Chairperson Khaleda Zia to seek clemency from the president since she did not commit any crime.

Azim Uddin Ahmed, one of the founding members of North South University (NSU), has been unanimously elected as the Chairperson of Board of Trustees of the university for the fourth time.

A doa mahfil for Latifur Rahman, founder chairman and CEO of Transcom Group, and his grandson Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain was held at The Daily Star Centre yesterday.

Speakers at a webinar on Wednesday demanded a separate land commission for indigenous people living on plainlands.

A Chattogram court yesterday asked the district administrations of Cox’s Bazar and Chattogram to appoint receivers to look after suspended OC Pradeep Kumar Das and his wife Chumki Karan’s property.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to Uttara Club Limited’s former president Nasir Uddin Mahmud and his associate Tuhin Siddiqui Omi in an attempted rape and murder case filed by actress Pori Moni.

A team of Bogura cyber police early yesterday arrested two, including a student, for allegedly spreading an old video on social media and stating that it is recent footage.

The High Court yesterday summoned two investigation officers of a child murder case in Bogura to appear before it to place their explanations over allegation of forcibly taking confessional statement from the deceased’s brother, who is also a minor.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know the government’s decision about the old trees at capital’s historic Suhrawardy Udyan, an integral part of Liberation War history.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday told parliament that Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) office has identified irregularities amounting to Tk 59,466 crore in the short span of 2018-2021.

The World Bank (WB) will provide USD 300 million to the Bangladesh government as loan to implement a five-year project to improve livelihood, which is scheduled to begin from July.

Former Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sayeed Khokon yesterday blamed the current DSCC mayor, Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, for the court order on freezing eight bank accounts belonging to Khokon and his family members.

Authorities were supposed to open Kalarpool bridge in Chattogram -- which was initially planned to open in 2018 -- today, but an accident on Friday evening has delayed it for at least six months.

A 32-year-old man was killed and four others injured in a clash between two groups in Narayanganj city last night.

Twelve new patients diagnosed with dengue fever were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning amid a spike in the mosquito-borne disease during monsoon.