A doa mahfil for late Touheed Rouf (Chengize) was held at Baridhara Central Jame Masjid “Baitul Atiq” after the Asr prayers yesterday, said a press release.

Moinuddin Mondal, a freedom fighter and president of Chapai-nawabganj district unit of Awami League and chairman of Zila Parishad, died from Covid-19 at Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 75.

“Around one and a half years ago, my sister-in-law, Taslima, died after suffering from post-pregnancy complications. She gave birth to a baby while still on the boat, heading towards the hospital. Unfortunately, she passed away before we made it,” shares 27-year-old Shahida Begum, a local of Kochkhali char.

Built in 1975, Raja Mansion has been an integral part of the post-Liberation War literary and cultural history of Sylhet.

Police have arrested four members of a gang which produced counterfeit revenue stamps and non-judicial stamps and then circulated those in the market to cash a hefty amount of money.

Millions of urban and new poor caused by the pandemic remain unaddressed by the government’s social protection programmes. At least 41 percent of these people have shifted to lower pay jobs and eight percent are still unemployed, reveals a study conducted by Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD).

There’s a group of artisans in Barishal who have been making their living weaving Shital Pati -- mats made out of cane -- for hundreds of years. In fact, there are entire villages, like Helencha village in Bakerganj upazila, where several dozens of households are devoted to the craft.

On the fourth day of the weeklong lockdown, droves of Khulna city residents gathered and crowded at kitchen markets, ignoring health guidelines amid an increasingly worsening situation.

I love watching Baya Weaver (Babui) birds in their nests. They are ferociously energetic and constantly bringing nesting materials, building and upgrading their nests or chasing each other. Recently I had the opportunity to watch them in action after many months and got a surprise.

For the fourth consecutive day, workers at Luhauni Tea Garden in Molvibazar’s Kulaura staged demonstrations yesterday, protesting a co-worker’s “unfair” dismissal with their 11-point demand.

A reward of Tk 2 lakh has been announced for information on the missing Chinese engineer working in the Padma Bridge project.

Despite repeated complaints raised by different sections on Dhaka University’s lack of research work, the university’s newest budget still paints a bleak picture for the sector.

The government and development partners decided to extend the Local Government Initiative on Climate Change (LoGIC) project for two more year at a virtual meeting yesterday for delivering adaptation benefits to the most vulnerable coastal people of Bangladesh.

Even though a decade has passed, trial of a case filed over the robbery at Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) 30 years ago has not made any headway.

Countries like Bangladesh that have the capability to produce vaccines should be allowed and supported in producing those, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said.

US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat-Texas) has assured of a fair share of Covid-19 vaccines for Bangladesh during a meeting with Bangladesh Ambassador to the US M Shahidul Islam at her office in Houston.

The High Court yesterday rejected a bail petition filed by the suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Khandaker Enamul Basir, in a case over transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.

A death-row convict in Ramna Batamul bomb blasts case, which killed ten people at Pahela Baishakh celebrations in 2001, has been in a condemned cell for the last 20 years.

A lawyer of Dhaka judges court named Raju Ahmed Rajib has been arrested on Wednesday for allegedly making “fake anticipatory bail order” in a violence and narcotics case filed in Bogura.

Originally scheduled for an April 1 launch, the proposed pilot to run buses under a single company on the Kanchpur Bridge-Ghatarchar route has been pushed back to September 7, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.